Old plate, ecclesiastical, decorative, and domestic; its makers and marks (1888)
Buck, J. H. (John Henry), 1849-1914 · New-York, The Gorham Manufacturing Company · leaf 149
BEAKEm. 119 shape ; and Forby would trace it to the Saxon hece^ ordinary drinking-vessels made of beech wood. The learned de Laborde connects the Enghsh word hjher with the French buketj giving for authority cases … BEAKER (1604) ; MEKCERS' NO. 38. ly referred to as probably of G-er- HALL, LONDON. man or Dutch origin. <( We* had nothing happened of any great note to us, till the year 171 1 ; and some time in April in that year, the Church received the gift of a large silver Beaker, with a cover well engraved,…
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