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

Howard, Montague · New York, Scribner · leaf 214

An illustration from Old London silver, its history, its makers and its marks, 1903, leaf 214 — . 127). In the late eighteenth century many different shapes wereemployed, the oval form predominating. No. 128 is ofthis type; this tea-pot has the tray to match, as was oftenthe case with the oval style. Sometimes tea-pots hadstraight spouts such as we see in No. 128, but generallyspeaking they… … 172 OLD LONDON SILVER The hall-marks of the early tea-pots are usually found onthe bottom, but not always. For the past hundred andfifty years the marks have almost without exception ap-peared on the bottom.

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