A good clean copy of "Silver Flatware : English, Irish and Scottish 1660 - 1980", by Ian Pickford, first published in 1983, this copy issued by The Antique Collectors' Club of Woodbridge, Suffolk in 1988. As well as taking a wide ranging look at flatware patterns, the author, a Freeman of the Goldsmiths Company, also discusses in detail flatware makers, stylistic developments, quality, repairs, fakes, forgeries and alterations, as well as the marking of flatware. Excellent academic text complemented throughout by fine black and white illustrations. Hard covers, large format, 231 pages, original dust jacket.
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