Old London silver, its history, its makers and its marks (1903)
Howard, Montague · New York, Scribner · leaf 173
ved much silver, we do not know of any piece of platethat one can say, with certainty, was engraved by him, ex-cept the silver tankard here mentioned. This engraving hasbeen highly praised. In the first quarter of the eighteenth century a new formwas introduced; in this the sides are no longer… … No. 88. Tankard (1784) in their chasing, and with elaborate covers (No. 87). Theyresemble the German tankards of that period. In the last quarter of the eighteenth century still anotherstyle was developed. It was straight sided, often with twosets of lines, one at the top and one at the bottom,…
Plate · Silverwork · Hallmarks
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