Old London silver, its history, its makers and its marks (1903)
Howard, Montague · New York, Scribner · leaf 38
contact. Shrines and reliquaries continued to be made in greatnumbers, and we know from descriptions, and from thefew that exist, that they were very beautiful in design andworkmanship. All through the thirteenth century the pyx (a receptaclefor the consecrated wafer), and the triptych (an… … INTRODUCTION 13 ters from the kings in return for their contributions to theexchequer. It is possible that these merchants may have dic-tated the twentieth article of Magna Charta, for we there findthis remarkable clause, that no merchant shall be deprivedof his merchandise, a law which was…
Plate · Silverwork · Hallmarks
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