Buy this book on-line HELLIWELL,STEPHEN, J**: : Understanding ANTIQUE SILVER PLATE.**UK.WOODBRIDGE,SUFFOLK.ANTIQUE COLLECTORS' CLUB,1996. ISBN 185149247X.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.Laid in, a complete, unused, publisher's tear-off order form for requesting free copy of Antique Collecting magazine and copy of Antique Collectors' Club book catalogue and an annual price revision list.Crisp, bright, clean, glossy
laminated, colour photographic illustrated dw/dj
with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges
and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+
fore-edges bright, clean and unblemished, contents bright,tight and near pristine.Bright,
clean,pale grey cloth bds with bright,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate textured, hall-marked white eps.Qrto,6-230pp includes half-title,colour photographic frntis,
colour photograph vignette title-page,contents list,Antique Collectors' Club advert,intro,30 chapters in 2 parts - 14 on Sheffield Plate or Fused plate,13 on Electroplate,profuse b/w+
colour photographs throughout the book,marks on plate, illustrations of Marks,glossary,biblio;
and 2pp blanks to rear.
As antique silver has become increasingly expensive, more and more collectors are turning to silver plate, which can still be found relatively inexpensively.Old Sheffield plate, or fused plate, has enjoyed a long history of popularity but electroplate has only comparatively recently become collected.Once seen as strictly utilitarian, it is now highly sought after, particularly in America, where designs for plate from the 1880's onwards were extremely imaginative.Stephen J.Helliwell has produced the first book to describe Old Sheffield plate and electroplate, along with their short-lived predecessors, mercury plating,
cold gilding and close plating.The book is divided into collectable areas, such as candlesticks, cutlery and alcoholic objects, and each item illustrated is described and given
an up to date valuation (then 1996).
Reasons for value are discussed and explained and there is a very useful section describing the marks which are found on plate.Advice is given on how to care for silver plate and how to be aware of fakes and reproductions.
Collectors and dealers alike will find a wealth
of indispensable information in this book,which
can be kept up to date with regular price revision lists from the publisher/collectors club and is sure to become the standard work of reference on the subject.
The Antique Collectors Club was formed in 1966 and quickly grew to a five figure membership spread throughout the world.It publishes the only independently run monthly antiques magazine, Antique Collecting, which caters for those collectors who are interested in widening their knowledge of antiques, both by greater awareness of quality and by discussion of the factors which influence the price that is likely
to be asked.The Antiques Collectors Club pioneered the provision of information on prices
for collectors and the magazine still leads in the provision of detailed articles on a variety of subjects.
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