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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Antique silver is one of the oldest and best loved collecting subjects and when one handles a good piece it is easy to see why. At the top end of the quality scale the work that went into making a fine piece was of an ex- tremely high order for those who bought quality pieces in the past were exacting connoisseurs whose reputa- tion as men of taste made it essential that their table decorations orna- ments and small necessities of life impressed those who hospitality from them. received But the majority of silver was used in the middle levels of British society and the collector of today has clearly to understand the varying qualities of production that he encounters if he is to buy well and avoid the showy but inferior pieces which may delude the unknowledgeable both when they were made and now. Next the collector must understand what can happen to a piece during its lifetime. On the one hand it can acquire a superb patination which will enhance its desirability and hence its value on the other it can be dented bent broken or marked and this can have the opposite effect. Even worse it can be altered to en- hance its apparent quality or it can even be made into something it was never intended to be. It is the careful consideration of all these practical factors and many others which make the second edition of this popular book an in- separable companion for discerning collectors or indeed anyone who wants to take an intelligent interest in the subject. The pieces are arranged chronologically within each main subject heading so that developing styles may be clearly understood while the 1100 photographs have been specially selected from the thousands available. (MP)