Historic Silver of the Colonies and Its Makers 



By FRANCIS HILL BIGELOW 



With many illustrations 



Cloth, i2Tno 



This volume describes and illustrates the various forms of the colonial 

 silver of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, principally made by 

 the colonial silversmiths. Many of these vessels, which are " little monu- 

 ments of American history," bear the names or initials of men famous as 

 governors and soldiers, Puritan leaders and prosperous merchants, leading 

 citizens and eminent divines. Biographical and historical notes regard- 

 ing the owners and silversmiths are included. To Mr. Bigelow's interests 

 in the subject of American silver were due the exhibitions held at the 

 Museum of Fine Arts at Boston in 1906 and 191 1, the installation of the 

 exhibition at Jamestown in 1907 of the collection formed by the Massa- 

 chusetts Society of Colonial Dames and the publication of Mr. E. Alfred 

 Jones's " The Old Silver of American Churches," which was undertaken 

 at his suggestion by the National Society of Colonial Dames of America. 



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