Chats on Old Sheffield Plate

Apart from the process of covering baser metals with silver by fusion and preparing sheets of copper superimposed with silver by rolling, there was the earlier process always de...

=The invention of silver plating by fusion--Thomas Boulsover of Sheffield (1704-1788)--A world of knick-knacks--The Sheffield silver-plating process--Early Sheffield plated prod...

In commenting upon early types of Sheffield plated candlesticks a good deal of past history has to go by the board. One does not need to discuss pricket candlesticks of ecclesia...

Imitation is no new thing in art. Indeed it may be advanced as an axiom that no art worthy of the name has ever come into being without inheriting the traditions and technique o...

There is nothing so ancient and so massive about the salt cellars that Sheffield made as there is in the old styles beloved by the collector of rare silver plate. There are no s...

The eighteenth century of the days of Hogarth, with his _Gin Lane_ and _Beer Street_ and with his satiric pencil reflecting the follies of his day is filled to repletion with ea...

There has been a recent dispersal of many fine collections of old silver plate, much of which consisted of glorious examples of periods which could and would only be used on sta...

As the days wore on at Sheffield the technique, as collectors know, became amazingly perfect. The silver wire following the intricate outlines of a vessel disguising the raw edg...

The centrepiece was the _pièce de résistance_; it made an imposing feature with its fruit which was to be served at dessert; it has developed later into an object for floral dec...

to Ireland. They have an interest, and the example illustrated (p. 175) shows the class of work the Sheffield craftsmen turned out in emulation of their Irish silver prototypes....