Old London silver, its history, its makers and its marks (1903)
Howard, Montague · New York : Scribner · leaf 170
ctory, the greater the tankard. On account of the large plain surfaces of many of thetankards made in the first half of the eighteenth century wefrequently find them engraved with large monograms, crests,inscriptions, and occasionally with elaborate scenes. No.89 is copied from an old print. It is… … No. 87. Chased Tankard (1748) Owner, Mr. Robert Hoe, New YorK Market. Hogarth was a member of this club. We haveseen in the Introduction how he was apprenticed in hisearly life to a silversmith, and although he must have en-graved much silver, we do not know of any piece of platethat one can say,…
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