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

Howard, Montague · New York : Scribner · leaf 160

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No. 80 (1561)THE EARLIEST HALL-MARKED TANKARD KNOWN From the Burlington Fine Arts Catalogue 123 CHAPTER IV TANKARDS ORIGINALLY the name tankard meant a vessel forcarrying water, but about the middle of the sixteenthcentury it came to denote an article that was principallyutilized for holding beer.…

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