A leopard`s head, a prancing lion, letters that stand for years, marks representing a city or town–all are clues. But this is no game. These are clues to identifying antique silver. ”Silver is a trick ...

A hallmark acts as a stamp of assurance, ensuring that the piece of jewellery you buy contains the exact metal content ...

CHM copy has bookplate: Gift of the Davidson Sterenfeld Family Foundation. Designed as the essential reference tool for appraisers, collectors and dealers of silverware, the Encyclopedia is an ...

If you have a pile of old tarnished silver flatware sitting in a drawer, it's time to get it out, polish it up and check to ...