UNWIN'S "CHATS" SERIES 



Chats on Military Curios. By STANLEY C. JOHNSON, 

 M.A., D.Sc. With a coloured frontispiece and 79 other 

 Illustrations. Cloth, 6s. net. 



" Mr. Johnson in this book describes many of the articles a collector 

 should be on the look out for, giving short but informative notes on 

 medals, helmet and cap badges, tunic buttons, armour, weapons of 

 all kinds, medallions, autographs, original documents relating to 

 Army work, military pictures and prints, newspaper cuttings, obso- 

 lete uniforms, crests, stamps, postmarks, memorial brasses, money 

 and curios made by prisoners of war, while there is also an excellent 

 biography on the subject. The author has, indeed, presented the 

 reader with a capital working handbook, which should prove a friendly 

 and reliable guide when he goes collecting." Field. 



Chats on Royal Copenhagen Porcelain. By ARTHUR 

 HAYDEN. With a frontispiece, 56 full-page Illustrations 

 and illustrated tables of marks. Cloth, 10s. 6d. net. 



"This very beautiful and very valuable book will be eagerly wel- 

 comed by lovers of porcelain. . . . Mr. Hayden describes with great 

 skill and preciseness all the quality and beauty of technique in which 

 this porcelain excels ; he loves it and understands it, and the examples 

 he has chosen as illustrations are a valuable supplement to his 

 descriptions." Bookman. 



Chats on Old Sheffield Plate. By ARTHUR HAYDEN. 

 With frontispiece and 58 full-page Illustrations, together 

 with makers' marks. Cloth, 21s. net. 



Old plated ware has, by reason of its artistic excellence 

 and its technique, deservedly won favour with collectors. 

 The art of making plated ware, which originated at Sheffield 

 (hence the name " Sheffield plate "), was continued at 

 Birmingham and London, where a considerable amount 

 of " old Sheffield plate " was made, in the manner of its 

 first inventors, by welding sheets of silver upon copper. 

 The manufacture lasted roughly a hundred years. Its 

 best period was from 1776 (American Declaration of 

 Independence) to 1830 (Accession of William IV). The 

 author shows reasons why this old Sheffield plate should 

 be collected, and the volume is illustrated with many 

 examples giving various styles and the development of the 

 art, together with makers' marks. Candlesticks and 



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