Tiffany Silver Flatware, 1845-1905 When Dining Was an Art

Name: Tiffany Silver Flatware, 1845-1905 When Dining Was an Art
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ISBN: 9781851493258

ISBN-10: 1851493255

ISBN-13: 9781851493258

Edition: 1999

Authors: William P. Hood, Roslyn Berlin, Edward Wawrynek, William P. Hood

List price: $95.00

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The antique silver flatware of Tiffany & Co., New York City, is highly sought-after, but the collector is frustrated by the lack of available information on and pictures of patterns and pieces (Tiffany's early catalogues 'Blue Books' did not always list what pieces were made in each pattern and never had illustrations). This definitive book relates the history of the silver flatware made by others and retailed by Tiffany 1845-c.1876 as well as that designed and made in-house 1869-1905. The story is woven into the broader fabric of the history of flatware in general and that of dining and food. The development and proliferation of many different flatware pieces in America are analysed and…

Book details

List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Antique Collectors' Club
Publication date: 1/1/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 350
Size: 8.75" wide x 11.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 3.784
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Prologue


Introduction



Silver Flatware Retailed by Tiffany, 1845-c.1876



Flatware made by Polhamus, Hebbard, Gorham, Moore and others



Silver Flatware Introduced by Tiffany, 1869-1905



Names, Pieces, Weights, Parts, Patterns



Place Pieces in Standard Patterns



Serving Pieces in Standard Patterns



Standard Patterns: Era of Edward C. Moore



Standard Patterns: Era of Charles T. Grosjean



Standard Patterns: Era of Paulding Farnham



Not-full-line Patterns



Custom Patterns


Epilogue



Flatware Terminology



Glossary of Other Technical Terms as Related to Silverware



Tiffany Flatware Markings



A Tiffany Chronology: 1837-1997


Notes


Bibliography


Permissions


Tablesetting Credits


Indexes