West Country Silver Spoons and their Makers, 1550-1750
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- Author(s) Kent, Timothy A
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1992
- Pages 180pp; illus
- Publisher J H Bourdon-Smith Ltd
- Place Published London
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- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Written by a silver spoon collector. Wide ranging content but largely comprises biographies of c400 spoon makers of varying length but some extending to several hundred words [pp63-145]. Otherwise much about spoons as objects but also much about the environment in which spoon makers worked - eg: 'how the trade worked'; status of spoon makers; sources of their raw materials; etc