THE UNUSUAL GIF1 
is that which bears the Monogram or Crest 
of the intended recipient — be she an 
Autumn Bride, or a relative or friend on 
one’s Holiday Gift list. To illustrate: 
(1) Salad Plates, with apple green border, and deeply etched bands and inlaid 
Monogram in sterling silver, $105 doz. (2) Service Plates of Cauldon China, 
with double band decoration in sterling silver, $92 doz. (3) Entree Plates, French 
gray border, with double band etched in sterling silver on edge and shoulder, $73 
doz. With Monogram, $89.50. (4) Crystal Grape Fruit Service (with inners), 
etched sterling silver band, $58 doz. (5) Glass Plates to match, $55 doz. Three- 
letter Monogram, $16.50 extra. 
(6) Dinner Goblets of Webb’s English 
Rock Crystal, open-stock pattern of 
sterling silver band over edge and foot, 
$33.60 doz. Other glasses to match at 
corresponding prices. (7) Iced Tea or 
Highball Glasses of English Crystal, 
with sterling silver decoration, including 
three-letter Monogram, $42.75 doz. 
(8) Tall Cocktail Glasses, with cock 
inlaid in sterling silver, $20 doz. 
(9) Crystal Service Plates, with bands 
etched in heavy sterling silver, $98 doz. 
Oyster or Soup Plates (including cock¬ 
tail inner), $107 doz. With Monogram 
(service size), $125 doz. Other pieces 
to match at corresponding prices. 
(10) Sherbet Glasses, with half-inch 
band in deeply etched sterling silver, 
$26 doz. (11) Crystal Oyster or Soup 
Plates, with plain sterling silver band, 
$49.50 doz. With decorated cocktail 
inner, $67.50 doz. Three-letter Mono¬ 
gram, $16.50 extra. (12) After Dinner 
Coffee Cups and Saucers of Royal 
Worcester China, with sterling silver 
band and handle, $37.75 doz. With 
three-letter Monogram, $54.25 doz. 
Sheffield Silver on extra heavy copper plate, in “Empire” pattern: (13) Footed 
“Well-and-Tree" Platter, 19" x 12JJ", $21.60. (14) Combination Covered Vege¬ 
table Dish, $10.75 (with compartment inner, $15.75). (15) Sauce Boat and 
Stand, $8.25. Prices include Monogram. 
The Studios require two weeks to fill 
Decorating Orders 
FOUNDED 1887 
9-11 EAST 3722! ST.. NEW YORK 
The Mirror of Mars 
m (Continued from page 58) 
recorded the opinion that such carica¬ 
tures were “one of the most efficacious 
means of instructing the hamlets and 
speaking to the eyes of the ignorant and 
unfortunate inhabitants.” This same 
Convention ordered that prints contain¬ 
ing portraits of the boy, Barra, who met 
death for his refusal to cry “God save 
the King!”, should be distributed to all 
French school children! From the Fall 
of the Bastile till Robespierre’s head 
rolled down from the guillotine the air 
of Paris was thick with such revolution¬ 
ary broadsides as the endless ingenuity 
of the anonymous print-artists of the 
Terror evolved. Every incident, every 
intention, every symbol and every alle¬ 
gory that could avail the Committee 
were utilized in a pictorial way. Liter¬ 
ally millions of prints of this sort were 
produced, precursors to the military 
caricatures of the Napoleonic period that 
werei to follow. I do not think the col¬ 
lector can do better, when studying these 
prints, than to acquaint himself with 
that entertaining and instructive work 
dared not excite his indignant country- on the subject by Ernest F. Henderson, 
men by the issue of these plates; after Ph.D., “Symbol and Satire in the French 
his death they were forgotten, nor did Revolution,” which is published in 
they see the light until 1863, when the America and, I believe, still in print. 
Academy of San Fernando brought out When we reach the Napoleonic period, 
An old woodcut from the 
Schwdbische Chronik, 
printed in 1486 at Ulnt by 
Konrad Dinchmut 
an edition of eighty 
plates, the two in 
Lefort’s collection not 
being included.” In 
the San Fernando 
edition there are 
eighty plates. A sec¬ 
ond edit ion was 
brought out in 1892, 
and poor impressions 
in 1902-1903. 
French Revolution 
Cartoons 
The French Revo¬ 
lution gave occasion 
to a long and copious 
series of militaristic- 
social prints. Some 
collectors have chosen 
to confine themselves 
to these just as others 
have to prints of the 
Napoleonic period, to 
naval prints or to 
prints of military cos¬ 
tumes or regimental 
colors. At the French 
Jacobin Club in Paris, 
November 1791, Le- 
quinio in a fiery 
speech declared: “You 
know all the evils 
that fanaticism 
caused by spreading 
pictures throughout 
the country. I pro¬ 
pose that the Society 
undertake to engage 
all artists to labour in 
opposition to this by 
making pictures that 
have to do with the 
Revolution.” A year 
later we find the Na¬ 
tional Convention ac¬ 
cording honorable 
mention to a cartoon¬ 
ist for a print depict¬ 
ing the soldiers of 
despotism quitting 
their standards in 
eagerness to serve 
under those of Lib¬ 
erty and Equality. 
The proces verbal of 
the Convention 
“War Throughout the 
Ages,” a sprightly 
serial print by Caran 
d’ Ache 
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A German recruiting broad¬ 
side of the 18f/r Century. 
Such prints are not difficult 
to find 
and all through it, we 
meet with countless 
prints, allegorical, 
symbolical, laudatory 
or satirical as the case 
may be. Those which 
appeared in England 
were, of course, stings 
for the Bee. The col¬ 
lector will find the 
Napoleonic carica¬ 
tures far more com¬ 
mon than those of the 
French Revolution. 
No collection of mili¬ 
tary prints should be 
without them. 
In England, for in¬ 
stance, Gillray was 
turning out satirical 
subjects with unflag¬ 
ging zeal. Says Pri- 
deaux : “Thomas 
Rowlandson ( 17 56- 
1827), James Gillray 
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