Old London silver, its history, its makers and its marks (1903)
Howard, Montague · New York, Scribner · leaf 77
ate isestimated at 300,000/. The table on which it principally stood was held up bythick wooden levers from head to foot. The earthenware, perhaps, struck memost, save that at the bottom of his staircase stood a gigantic figure of Napoleon,in Parian marble, under a dome of painted glass: but the… … PRESENT GOLDSMITHS HALL that it was the effect of enchantment by which I had been transported from thisdingy metropolis into the fairy palace of Aladdin. Corporations, the Livery Companies of London, the col-leges at Oxford and Cambridge, the museums, and thechurches have most of the earliest…
Plate · Silverwork · Hallmarks
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