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Old London silver, its history, its makers and its marks (1903)

Howard, Montague · New York, Scribner · leaf 208

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tle in Wales a coffee-pot of the time ofCharles II. The early coffees were tall, straight-sided,usually plain and frequently of hexagonal form, with domedcovers. Most of the coffee-pots of the last part of theseventeenth century and the early part of the eighteenthhave the spout at right angles to… … 166 OLD LONDON SILVER 17(30) the form of the coffee changed. From that timeit stood on a base with the lower part of the body slightlybulged. No. 117 is of this description, although madein George Ills time (1700-1820). As time went on itbecame more shaped and decorative, as in No. 118. Some-times…

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