INDEX

• Addison, Spectator, quoted on salt spoon, 153
• Alphabets of London date marks (1598-1835), 359-385
• American silversmiths, 47
• Anathema Cup, the (1481), Pembroke College, 90, 94
• Apostle spoons, list of apostles with their emblems, 183;
• prices, 187, 193
• Assay offices, early, 27;
• eighteenth century, 28
• Basket work in silver, 276, 282;
• bread and cake baskets, 293
• Beaker, the Stuart, 119;
• illustrations of the, 121
• “Beer Lane,” engraving by Hogarth, 132
• Bell-shaped salt cellar, illustrated, 147
• Below the salt, table customs, 141
• Birmingham Marks illustrated, 398, 399
• Bodington, John, silversmith (1697), 216
• Bowl, plum broth (1697), illustrated, 217
• Boxes for sugar, 261
• Bread-basket, the, 293
• Britannia mark, forgeries of, 220
• Britannia mark, when found on silver, 51;
• used when silver is not higher standard, 58, 61
• Buck, Jonathan, silversmith, Cork, specimen illustrated, 339
• Busfield, William, silversmith, York, 113
• Caddy spoons, 194
• Cake basket, the, 293
• Candle holders, part of centre-pieces, 276
• Candlestick, brass, seventeenth-century, illustrated, 129
• Candlesticks, silver—
• Charles II examples illustrated, 227
• Early eighteenth-century examples illustrated, 231
• Early Stuart type, 225
• Lambeth delft example (1648) illustrated, 223
• Sheffield example (1782) illustrated, 235
• Casters, 271-276
• Casters illustrated—
• George II (Exeter), 273
• Group (Queen Anne and George III), 277
• Irish (1699), 331
• Scottish (1746), 317
• William III and Queen Anne, 269
• Catherine of Braganza popularizes tea-drinking, 254
• Centre-piece, the, 276
• Chalice, the, Elizabethan forms, 73, 74;
• the Exeter pattern, 73
• Charles I statue, Charing Cross, its secret burial, 107
• Charles II and Lord Mayor, piquant story of, 44
• Chester Marks illustrated, 395
• Chronological List of Specimens Illustrated—

• Henry VII (1485-1509)	1490	Mazer, 87
  	1499	Leigh Cup, Mercers’ Company, 91
  	1500	Hour-glass standing salt, 143
  Elizabeth (1558-1603)	1570	Stoneware jug with silver mounts, 95
  	1572	Flagon, 105
  	1572	Chalice and cover, 67
  	1573	Chalice and cover, 71
  	1575	Chalice and cover, 67
  	1585	Standing cup and cover, 95
  	1599	Flagon, 105
  	1601	Bell-shaped salt cellar, 147
  James I (1603-1625)	1606	Beaker, 121
  	c. 1620	Tall wine cup (no date letter), 125
  Charles I (1625-1649)	1631	Wine cup, 129
  	1631	Beaker, 121
  	1637	Candlestick, 223
  	1638	Salt cellar, Mercers’ Company, 151
  	1640	Chalice and cover, 71
  	1648	Apostle spoon (St. Andrew), 185
  Commonwealth (1649-1660)	1651	Spoon, slipped in the stalk, 181
  	1652	Spoon, seal-top, 185
  	1653	Porringer, 197
  	1660	Spoon, Puritan, 181
  Charles II (1660-1685)	1660	Cup, 75
  	1662	Posset-cup and cover, 197
  	1665	Spoon, flat stem, 181
  	1665	Wine cup, 129
  	1666	Porringer, 201
  	1669	Porringer, 197
  	1670	Teapot, 243
  	1671	Beaker, 121
  	1672	Porringer, 209
  	1673	Candlesticks, 227
  	1674	Apostle spoon (St. Simon Zelotes), Exeter, 189
  	1677	Pepys standing cup, 99
  	1679	Spoon, lobed end, 189
  	1679	Tankard, 111
  	1679	Caudle cup and cover, 201
  	1679	Octagonal salt cellar (Mercers’ Company), 155
  	1680	Patens, 79
  	1682	Snuffers and tray, 231
  	1683	Posset-pot and cover, 205
  	1684	Tankards (York), 111
  	1685	Posset-pot and cover, 213
  William III (1689-1702)	1692	Flagons, 75
  	1694	Loving-cup (Cork), 331
  	1697	Dish and ladle, 217
  	1699	Caster (Dublin), 331
  	1701	Caster, 269
  	1701	Tankard, 111
  Anne (1702-1714)	1702	Spoon trefoil top, rat’s-tail (Exeter), 189
  	1702	Lavabo bowl, 79
  	1703	Spoon, trefoil top (Newcastle), 185
  	1703	Spoon, trefoil top, 185
  	1704	Candlestick, 231
  	1704	“Monteith” punch-bowl, 135
  	1705	Tankard (Exeter), 115
  	1705	Scottish quaich, 313
  	1706	Candlestick (Exeter), 231
  	1707	Porringer (Exeter), 209
  	1712	Caster, 269
  	1712	Trencher salt cellar, 165
  	1714	Paten (Exeter), 79
  George I (1714-1727)	1718	Tea-caddy (Exeter), 259
  	1721	Candlestick, 231
  	1726	Cream-jug, 305
  George II (1727-1760)	1728	Caster (Exeter), 273
  	1729	Small communion cup and cover, 81
  	1730	Tea-caddy, 259
  	1730	Coffee-pot, 255
  	1730	Trencher salt cellar, 165
  	1733	Mug (Exeter), 117
  	1736	Jug, helmet-shaped, 301
  	1737	Coffee-pot (Newcastle), 243
  	1740	Centre-piece (Dublin), 335
  	1740	Cream-jug (Dublin), 339
  	1741	Coffee-pot, Frontispiece
  	1745	Teapot, 247
  	1746	Kettle and stand, 251
  	1746	Caster (Edinburgh), 317
  	1747	Caster, 277
  	1748	Tankard (Exeter), 117
  	1758	Trencher salt cellar, 165
  	1760	Tea-caddies and sugar box, 263
  	1760	Irish potato-ring, Design on cover of volume [Transcriber's Note: The design did not appear on the cover of this edition.]
  	1740-1775	Bread-baskets, 289
  George III (1760-1820)	1760	Caster, 277
  	1761	Centre-piece, 279
  	1761	Cake-basket, 291
  	1764	Cream-jug, 305
  	1764	Cream-jug (Cork), 339
  	1765	Circular salt cellar with club feet, 165
  	1769	Salt cellar with glass liner, 167
  	1769	Coffee-pot (Edinburgh), 321
  	1770	Cream-pail (Dublin), 343
  	1771	Salt cellar, perforated work, 173
  	1771	Caster, 277
  	1773	Sugar-bowl, 283
  	1775	Coffee-pot, 255
  	1775	Tea-caddy, 259
  	1775	Centre-piece, 279
  	1776	Cream-pail, 285
  	1778	Tea-urn (Edinburgh), 325
  	1779	Cream-jug, 305
  	1780	Cream-jug, 305
  	1781-1790	Salt cellars, tureen form, 171
  	1782	Candlestick (Sheffield), 235
  	1782	Cream-pail, 285
  	1784	Tea-caddy, 259
  	1785	Salt cellar, circular, 165
  	1785	Salt cellar with glass liner, 167
  	1786	Salt cellar, cloven-hoof feet, 167
  	1786	Sugar-bowl, 285
  	1789	Salt cellar with club feet, 167
  	1789	Salt cellar, circular, 171
  	1790	Cream-jug, 309
  	1790	Mug (Edinburgh), 313
  	1791-1797	Salt cellar, boat-shaped, 171
  	1790-1800	Coffee-pots and teapots, 255
  	1800	Cream-jug, 309
  	1803	Salt cellar, washing tub form, 173
  	1804	Cream-jug, 309
  	1809	Cream-jug, 309
  	1810	Salt cellar, Pompeian design, 173
  George IV (1820-1830)	1818	Salt cellar, tureen form, 173
  William IV (1830-1837)	1832	Salt cellar, circular, 173

• Classic influence, when at its height, 287
• Clipped coins called in, panic in 1696, 57
• Coffee-drinking, women’s petition to Parliament, 245
• Coffee-pots, 250
• Coffee-pots illustrated—
• George II (1741), Frontispiece
• Group George II and George III, 255
• Newcastle (1737), 243
• Scottish (1769), 321
• Coin clipping, attempt to stamp out, 52
• Coiners, heavy penalties for, 53
• Communion cup and cover (Exeter), 78
• Copper tokens, seventeenth century, with goldsmith’s name, 44
• Cork Marks illustrated, 409
• Cream-jug, the, 303
• Cream-pail, the, 288
• Cups, standing, 90
• Date letters of London Assay Office (1598-1835), 359-385
• Date marks, eccentricities of alphabets, 36;
• explanation of, 34-39
• Delft salt cellars, Lambeth, Rouen, illustrated, 161
• Dish, plum broth (1697), illustrated, 217
• Dish ring or stand, Irish, 342
• “Dollar” found on Irish silver, 334
• Dollars, Spanish, legal tender with head of George III stamped on them, 337
• Dryden receives bad coins from his publisher, 54
• Dublin Marks illustrated, 409
• Dutch silver—brandy cup in form like quaich, 316
• Duty mark, the, explanation of, 60
• Ecclesiastical plate, 65-78
• Edinburgh Marks illustrated, 405
• Edinburgh tea-table customs, 303
• Earthenware emulating silver, 169, 249, 262, 294
• East India Company, teapot presented to, 241;
• import of tea and teapots by, 249
• Eighteenth-century Assay Offices, 28
• Eighteenth-century beverages, 253;
• salt cellars, types of, 157
• Elizabethan flagons, 107
• Elston, John, silversmith, Exeter, 78
• Exeter Marks illustrated, 81, 115, 117, 209, 273, 391
• Exeter silver plate illustrated—
• Chalices, Elizabethan, 67, 71;
• Charles I, 71
• Communion cup, George II, 81
• Mug, George III, 117
• Spoons, 189
• Tankard, Queen Anne, 115;
• George II, 117
• Flagons, sixteenth-century, 107
• Flaxman, John, teapot designed by, 250
• Foreign mark, the, 62
• Forgeries, 220
• Fraud, cutting out old marks, 275
• Fraud, possibilities of, in marks, 63, 359
• French influence in late eighteenth century, 287
• Gamble, Ellis, goldsmith, master of Hogarth, his shop card, 45
• Gibson, George, silversmith, York, 113
• “Gin Street,” engraving by Hogarth, 132
• Glasgow Marks illustrated, 405
• Glasgow silver. Marks, 404;
• quaich (1665) illustrated, 313
• Glassworker, designs of the, utilized in silver, 212
• Goble, Robert, silversmith, Cork, specimen illustrated, 331;
• marks illustrated, 409
• Goldsmiths’ Company, London, early power of, 26;
• the true function of, 35;
• salt cellars in possession of, 146
• Hall-marks, explanation of, 25-30
• Hall-marks of various Assay Offices, 28
• Handle, the, of posset-pot and porringer, 207
• Hanway, Jonas, condemns tea, 254
• Harp handles in Irish silver, 338;
• cup illustrated, 331
• Hibernia, figure of, as a mark, 33, 334
• Higher standard mark, explanation of, 49-59
• Hogarth, William, apprenticed to goldsmith, 45;
• his satires on drinking, 132
• House of Commons Select Committee on Hall-marking of Plate, 25, 27, 153
• Hour-glass form of salt cellar illustrated, 143
• Individuality of craftsmen’s work extinguished, 43
• Initials of makers, 43
• Innholders’ Company salt cellars, 146
• Ions, I., silversmith, Exeter, 74
• Irish goldsmiths, 47
• Irish makers’ names, 345, 346
• Irish plate illustrated—
• Caster, 331
• Centre-piece, 335
• Cream-jugs, 339
• Cream-pail, 343
• Loving-cup, 331
• Potato-ring, Cover of volume
• Irish silver, 329
• Irish standard mark, 33
• Irish towns where silver was wrought, 337
• Jug, stoneware (1570), with silver mounts, 101
• Lambeth delft salt cellar, 163
• Lamerie, Paul de, mark illustrated, 251
• Lantern-shaped teapot (1670) illustrated, 243
• Lavabo bowl illustrated, 79
• Leigh standing cup, the, 93
• “Lima” found on George II gold coins, 337
• Lion’s head erased mark, when found on silver, 51
• Locke, “Further Considerations Concerning the Raising the Value of Money,” 55
• London hall-marks—
• Marks illustrated, 129, 135, 197, 205, 217, 231, 251, 269, 291, 349-385
• Table of date letters (1598-1835), 351-355
• Table showing differences in shapes of shields, 357
• Longfellow: poem on Paul Revere, silversmith, 48
• Louis Seize style in table ornaments, 287
• Loving-cup, the, and its ceremonial, 94
• Lowndes’ “Essay for the Amendment of the Silver Coins,” 53, 55
• Lustre ware (Staffordshire) emulating silver, 249
• Makers’ marks, explanation of, 40
• Makers’ names, Irish silver, list of, 345, 346
• Marks illustrated—
• Birmingham, 399
• Chester, 395
• Cork, 409
• Dublin, 409
• Edinburgh, 405
• Exeter, 391
• Glasgow, 405
• London, 351-385
• Newcastle, 399
• Norwich, 395
• Sheffield, 399
• York, 395
• Marks on silver—a trade secret, 38
• Marks stamped on silver, various, 23-63
• Marks, the position of, as stamped on silver, 359;
• to prevent fraud, 275;
• used by various assay offices, 29;
• where placed on spoons, 193
• Mazer, the fifteenth century, 86
• Mercers’ Company, Leigh Cup (1499) illustrated, 91
• Monteith punch-bowl illustrated, 135
• Mordaunt, Charles, Earl of Peterborough, 134
• Morgan, Octavius, his pioneer work on marks, 38
• Mug, the, 119
• Newcastle-on-Tyne, date letters employed at, 36, 37;
• illustrated, 397-399
• Newcastle-on-Tyne silver plate illustrated—
• Coffee-pot, 243
• Spoon, 185
• Nineteenth century, early, types of salt cellars, 157
• Norwich Corporation salt cellar, 149
• Norwich mark illustrated, 395
• Norwich silver plate illustrated—
• Tall wine cup, 125
• Paten, the, its form, 69
• Pepys, Samuel, buries his silver plate at Bethnal Green, 127
• Pepys standing cup and cover, the, 101
• Peterborough, Earl of, his exploits, 134
• Peterson, Peter, silversmith, Norwich, 123
• Provincial Assay Offices reappointed, 50
• Provincial offices ceased marking silver for five years, 29, 50
• Porcelain teapots the prototypes of silver, 246, 249
• Porringer, the, 195-220
• “Portobello,” found on English silver coins, 334
• Posset-pot, the, 195-220
• Posset-pot, sixteenth-century Exeter College, Oxford, 203
• Potato-ring, Irish, 342
• Potter, the eighteenth-century, and the silversmith, 169, 249, 262, 294
• Pottery, seventeenth-century example of posset-cup, 211
• Prices—
• Beakers, 137
• Candlesticks, 229, 237
• Casters, 297
• Coffee-pots, 262
• Cream-jugs, 308
• Cups, standing, 137
• Dish rings, 346
• Elizabethan jug, 101
• Goblets, 138
• Irish silver, 346
• Jug, stoneware, silver mounts, 101
• Loving-cups, 137
• Mazers, 89
• “Monteith,” 138
• Porringers, 219, 220
• Posset-pots, 219
• Potato-rings, 346
• Punch-bowls, 138
• Quaich, 320
• Salt cellars, 145, 149, 159, 170, 175
• Spoons, apostle, 187, 193;
• caddy, 194;
• seal-top, 194
• Standing cups, 137
• Sugar-bowls, 297
• Tankards, 137
• Tea-caddies, 261, 265
• Tea-kettles, 265
• Teapots, 265
• Wine cups, 138
• Punch-bowl, the, 128
• Punch-bowl, historic American, 47
• Puritans, destruction of objects of art by, 70
• Quaich, the Scottish, 316
• Queen Anne forgeries posset-pots, 220
• Radcliff, J. R., silversmith, Exeter, 74
• Revere, Paul, celebrated American silversmith, 48
• Richards, Edmund, silversmith, Exeter, 216
• Ring, potato or dish, Irish, 342
• Romer, Edward, silversmith, 294
• Salt cellars, 139;
• classified list of types, 154, 157
• Salt cellars—
• Norwich Corporation, 149
• Christ’s College, Cambridge, 158;
• illustrated, 143
• Clothworkers’ Company, 146
• Goldsmiths’ Company, 146
• Ironmongers’ Company, 146
• Innholders’ Company, 146
• Mercers’ Company, 159;
• illustrated, 151, 155
• Skinners’ Company, 146
• Vintners’ Company, 146
• Scott, Sir Walter, quoted as to tea-leaves, 304
• Scottish silver, 311-327
• Scottish silver plate illustrated—
• Caster, 317
• Coffee-pot, 321
• Mug, 313
• Quaich, 313
• Tea-urn, 327
• Scottish standard mark, 35
• Seventeenth-century tankards, 110
• Shapes of shields, differences in, table showing, 357
• Sheffield Marks illustrated, 398, 399
• Sheffield “silver plated” or silver plate, definition, 234
• Sheffield silver plate illustrated—
• Candlestick, 235
• Shields, table showing differences in London Hall-marks, 357
• Shute, William, silversmith, marks illustrated, 361
• Silver mountings for wood vessels, 86;
• for earthenware, 86, 98, 101, 109
• Skinners’ Company salt cellars, 146
• Somerset House, the battle of, 107
• Spanish dollars legal tender with head of George III stamped on them, 337
• Spoons—
• Apostle, 180, 183;
• illustrated, 185, 189;
• prices, 187
• Fiddle pattern, 192
• Flat stem, 188;
• illustrated, 181
• Maidenhead, 187
• Rat-tail, 191;
• illustrated, 189
• Seal-top, 187;
• illustrated, 185;
• prices, 194
• Slipped in the stalk, 188;
• illustrated, 185
• Trifid, 188;
• illustrated, 185
• Spoons, placing of marks on, 193
• Staffordshire silversmith’s designs, 294
• Staffordshire lustre ware emulating silver, 249
• Staffordshire potter’s emulation of silver plate, 169, 249, 262, 294
• Standard Marks, 31-33
• Standard work on marks, 34
• Standing cups, 90
• Standing salt cellars, 154
• “Sterling” found on Cork silver, 334
• Stoneware jug, the, Elizabethan, with silver mounts, 98, 101
• Strong, James, silversmith, Exeter, 78
• Sugar-bowls, 287
• Sugar, silver boxes for, 261
• Sumner salt cellar, the, illustrated, 155
• Symonds, Pentecost, silversmith, Exeter, 78
• Table customs, “below the salt,” 141
• Tankards, seventeenth-century, 110
• Tea advertisement, a quaint seventeenth-century, 242
• Tea-caddies, 258;
• evolution to cabinet-maker’s style, 261
• Tea-drinking, excessive, 254
• Teapot, the earliest known silver (1670), 241
• Teapots, 241
• Tea-strainers, 304
• Tea-table manners, eighteenth-century, 303
• Tea-urn, Scottish, 1778; illustrated, 325
• “Tiger” ware, Elizabethan, with silver mounts, 98
• Tokens, copper (seventeenth century) with goldsmiths’ names, 46
• Town marks found on Scottish silver, 315
• Trencher salt cellars, 157
• Turner cup, the (1679), York Corporation plate, 102
• “Vigo” found on Queen Anne’s guineas (1703), 337
• Vyner, Sir Robert, piquant story of, 44
• Wedgwood wooden models of silversmith’s designs, 250
• Wesley, John, condemns tea, 254
• West Malling jug, the Elizabethan (1581), 101
• Wine cup, the Stuart, 123
• Wine cup, illustrations of—
• James I, 125
• Charles II, 129
• Women’s petition to Parliament against coffee, 245
• William III and the debasement of the coin, 49
• York Corporation plate, 102
• York Marks illustrated, 395
• York silver plate illustrated—
• Tankards (Charles II), 111
• Marks, 395

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