SILVERSMITH / SILVER STORIES
(excerpts from Storytell posts + original research)
(To retell the stories listed below, be sure to get permission from the copyright holder if the material is not in the public domain)

1) Silversmith - an 18th Century Trades Sampler from Colonial Williamsburg
http://www.history.org/history/teaching/silsmith.cfm

2) The Silversmith
http://www.glorifythelord.com/stories12.html

3) The Silversmith - Wikipedia definition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silversmith

4) Wedding Gifts (a joke)
http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/91q1/wedgift.html

5) The Flute of Ilyria
http://www.drizzle.com/~lostboy/Library/Shorts/Flute.html

6) Silversmith definition - 18th century
http://www.history.org/almanack/life/trades/tradesil.cfm

7) Paul Revere was a silversmith
http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/1aa/1aa467.htm

8) Paul Revere story (Stories of Spies and Letters)
Take the Money and Run
April/May 1775 -- Rachel Revere to Paul Revere (with great illustrations!)
http://www.si.umich.edu/spies/stories-networks-1.html

9) Jack and his Lump of Silver
Collected by R. Rex Stephenson from Raymond Sloan. Originally published in Blue Ridge Traditions And in ALCA-Lines: Journal of the Assembly on the Literature and Culture of Appalachia, Vol. VI (Fall 1999): 6-7.
http://www.ferrum.edu/applit/texts/JackSilver.htm

10) The Pantacle - A Teaching Story
Gary Dumbauld
http://www.paganlibrary.com/stories/pantacle-a_teaching_story.php

11) The Silver Bell Mine
http://digital-desert.com/joshua-tree-national-park/silver-bell/

12) The Silver on the Hearth, a story from Afghanistan
http://www.storiestogrowby.com/stories/silver.html

13) Renaissance Silver: Shining examples of the silversmith's art
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/09/04/basilver104.xml

14) Don't forget:
Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates (Dover Evergreen Classics) by Mary Mapes Dodge (reprint 2003 - Ages 4-8)
In another moment they were all laughing together, as hand in hand they flew along the canal, never thinking whether the ice would bear them or not, for in Holland ice is generally an all-winter affair. It settles itself upon the water in a determined kind of way, and so far from growing thin and uncertain every time the sun is a little severe upon it, it gathers its forces day by day and flashes defiance to every beam.
From the Gutenberg Project:
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext96/hboss10.txt
Broken down by chapters
http://www.learndutch.org/Brinker/Framebody.html#Hans and Gretel
Book Description
Set against a backdrop of frozen canals in a winter wonderland, the year's most exciting event in a little Dutch village is about to take place. But will Hans Brinker and his sister Gretel, with their hand-carved wooden skates, be able to compete against their well-trained young friends who own fine steel blades?
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15) Margaret Read MacDonald's Storytellers Sourcebook: A Subject, Title, and Motif Index to Folklore Collections for Children (vol 1) lists six stories with silver in them, also a story of a silversmith. The Storytime Sourcebook II: A Compendium of 3,500+ New Ideas and Resources for Storytellers (vol 2) lists nine stories, but none with silversmiths.

16) Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Pine-Tree Shilling. Silver, silversmith, and in the public domain - but not so much of a classic that you can't fiddle with it, if you wish.
Full text:
http://www.underthesun.cc/Classics/Hawthorne/grandfatherchair/grandfatherchair6.html

17) The Lady of the Silver Bell
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/ppx/ppx09.htm

18) Silver Bell, a story from A Book of Dwarfs by Ruth Manning-Sanders, New York, E.P. Dutton, 1969.

19) Silver Penny, a story from A Book of Wizards by Ruth Manning-Sanders, New York, E.P. Dutton, 1967.

20) Silver Maid (Siberia), a story from The Sun Maiden and the Crescent Moon: Siberian Folk Tales (International Folk Tales Series) : Siberian Folk Tales, edited by James Riordan.
Book Description
Another collection of folk tales from Interlink. The two collections of Siberian folktales in Books in Print are both scholarly and expensive. In his new collection, Riordan provides an extensive ethnographic introduction, a glossary, and a (half-Russian) bibliography but little discussion of the specific tales included and no data on their collection. The tales themselves are polished without being too "literary." There are familiar types (e.g., hero and etiological tales) and themes (e.g., condemnation of human foolishness, greed, and selfishness). Most striking, though, are the qualities that bring these stories to the border of myth: the vividness of the spirit world, pervasive animism, and interaction with divine beings. The extreme physical setting, especially the frozen tundra, adds to the exotic and memorable atmosphere of the book. Even without the high current interest in the USSR and its peoples, this collection is a fascinating cultural resource.
Patricia Dooley, Univ. of Washington Lib. Sch., Seattle

21) American History: The Ringing of a Silver Bell by Donna Flood.
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/america/silver_bell.htm

22) For the little ones: This is from a teacher's site. 'In my class, at story time, I tell stories, usually fairytales, instead of reading. At the beginning of each story time we sing the same song. These are the words: Mother of the fairytale, take me by your silver hand. Sail me in your silver boat. Sail me silently afloat. Mother of the fairytale, take me to your shining land. This little song has a tune of its own and I am unable to write music, but the words and hand motions, modeled with reverence, have been proven very useful in my experience.

23) Gold-tree and Silver-tree - Folklore Society
http://www.tsimmes.com/cats/folklore/goldtree.html

24) Bit of history:
Koksilah Silver Mine Location: Koksilah River, Duncan (and Cowichan Valley), B. C.
Date: 1973
Informant:
Source: condensed from Lazeo, L. Lost Treasure in British Columbia. Victoria, B. C.: L. Lazeo, 1973. 42. In 1885 the E & N Railway is being built from Victoria to Nanaimo. During its Cowichan Valley construction phase, alongside the Koksilah River, Bill Irvine, one of the railway's surveyors, is working late. He decides to take a short-cut back to camp via the River. While pushing his way through thick bush he misses his footing and plunges down into an old mine shaft. From the appearance of tools scattered about he estimates the mine to be some 200 years old. Twenty-two years later the piece of rock he has kept as a souvenir is analyzed and reported to be silver-bearing ore containing $350 of silver to the ton. Irvine returns to the area with his 20-year-old son only to find that the shaft and the area round it have been covered by a huge rock slide.

Response: I am fairly positive I have found #24 on your list (silversmith stories), as has another fellow. I looked into this for the better part of a year, and it came to my attention, that the Koksilah River and the E&N only run near each other (to make this account feasible) for a very short way. A few kilometers maybe. Second, there are even fewer spots where he [ the surveyor ] could take a 'shortcut' along that stretch. That just leaves a place capable of producing a rock slide on top of that, and it really only leaves one location, which I walked to, and it seemed very plausible. After returning home, I looked at it on a topographic map from BC mines and energy, and found that the only hard rock mineral tenure in the area to be directly over the spot in question (the other fellow), suspicious. He has let his title expire this year, so I am going back to re-investigate. I will keep you updated.
Aaron E. 8/7/08
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25) The Gold Ax and The Silver Ax (Korea).

26) All My Shining Silver Collection: Stories of Values from Around the World. retold by Barbara Baumgartner, illustrated by Amanda Hall.
All My Shining Silver (Ireland)
Hadiyah and the Great FIsh (Mozambique)
Awang and his Silver Flute (Indonesia)
The Danced-Out Shoes (Russia)
The Rainbow Horse (Puerto Rico)
Why Cat and Dog Are Not Friends (Japan and Korea -- she has really interleaved the two different versions)

This companion to Baumgartner's Good as Gold & All My Shining Silver: Stories of Values From Around the World.(Review): An article from: Children's Digest (reviewed summer 1999) offers another helping of value-able world folktales whose exquisite illustrations are embellished with metallic ink. Even the end papers are silver. Perhaps the six tales are familiar, but Baumgartner gives some of them a fresh twist. The title tale, from Ireland,tells the old tale of the unkind/kind girls taking the forbidden long leather bag (of silver coins, of course) from the chimney, but it's the first version I've ever seen that explains how it got there: stolen from their own mother! After a soldier uses a silver twig and silver cup to prove how the princesses dance out their shoes -- only three princesses in this Russian version -- the king agrees to host weekly dance parties at home for them! Silver fish scales, a silver flute, silver apples and a silver ring play central roles in the other four stories (from Mozambique, Indonesia, Puerto Rico and Japan/Korea). Each one ends with a pithy admonition such as "Helping others brings its own rewards" or "Use your wits to gain your fortune." But Baumgartner wisely writes, "Even though a moral is printed at the end of each story, ask the children what they think is important about a tale, and they will share their own unique insights." Baumgartner urges adult readers to retell the stories in their own words, or at least to read with eye contact. She provides one primary source for each story. Amanda Hall's illustrations may not be geographically perfect (saguaro cactuses in Puerto Rico? curly tailed cats in Japan?) but they are delightfully detailed, lively, and aglitter with metallic ink that transforms the pages as they turn in the light. The book would make a handsome gift for a young story loving friend, or a treasure to share with a lapsitter.

27) Another version of The Silversmith.
http://www.chain.org/library/parables/silversmith.htm
Looking through Storytell Magazine, I see the same parable, though a bit different, offered by our own William Wilder. It is his adaptation on page 27 in the November/December 2001 issue.

28) A story called Adventures of Juan Chicaspatas in which a magic tree gives him a goat that can shake silver out of his whiskers.
Book Description
The best-selling Chicano novelist, author of the prize-winning Bless Me, Ultima, turns his pen to narrative poetry in this mock epic. Here the myths and history of Mexico and the Southwest are revised in this phantasmagoric marijuana dream peopled by gods, ghosts and, of all things, the neighborhood pachucos.

29) Walter de la Mare's poem, Silver. I don't know if it is public domain or not, but it describes silvery things in beautiful language. (Note from JB: Silver was published in 1913 and therefore is in the public domain.)

Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees;
One by one the casements catch
Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;
Couched in his kennel, like a log,
With paws of silver sleeps the dog;
From their shadowy coat the white breasts peep
Of doves in a silver-feathered sleep;
A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
With silver claws, and silver eye;
And moveless fish in the water gleam,
By silver reeds in a silver stream.
http://www.poemtree.com/poems/Silver.htm
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BOOKS ABOUT SILVER AND SILVERSMITHS (including Paul Revere)

• A Picture Book of Paul Revere (Picture Book Biography) by David A. Adler with John Wallner and Alexandra Wallner (illus). (1997 - Ages 4-8)
Book Description
Grade 1-3 As in other entries in the series, Adler briefly traces his subject's life, covering the major points and important dates. He points out how Revere's famous etching of the Boston Massacre distorted what really happened in order to fan anti-British sentiment. The famous midnight ride is described, but not allowed to overwhelm the rest of the man's accomplishments. The matter-of-fact, easy-reading text is enlivened and expanded upon by the Wallners' attractive and informative line and watercolor artwork. Jean Fritz provides more period detail in And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? (Paperstar), but for those maddening first-and-second grade biography assignments, Adler presents one of the few respectable options. A welcome addition.
Elaine Fort Weischedel, Turner Free Library, Randolph, MA

• And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? (Paperstar) by Jean Fritz with margot Tomes (illus). (1996 - Ages 9-12)
Book Description
Describes some of the well-known as well as the lesser-known details of Paul Revere's life and exciting ride.

• American Silversmiths and Their Marks: The Definitive (1948) Edition (1948 Edition) by Stephen G.C. Ensko. (1983)
Book Description
Scholarly directory of over 3000 early American silversmiths, 1650-1850, and their identifying marks. Perfect reference work for collectors. Biographical detail, shop locations given, plus 226 examples of silversmith's art in photographs. Introduction. Maps. Bibliography.

• Encyclopedia of American Silver Manufacturers (Schiffer Book for Collectors) by Dorothy T. Tainwater, Martin Fuller and Colette Fuller. (2003)
Book Description
With more than 2300 marks illustrated and brief histories and cross-references of more than 1600 manufacturers, this is the most comprehensive reference source on the subject. To compile the information presented here, the authors devoted much time researching numerous sources. These include various editions of Trademarks of the Jewelry & Kindred Trades, U.S. Patent Office records, silver and jewelry catalogs of manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers, records of companies still in business, and pieces examined in antiques shops all over the country. This fifth edition includes new trademarks, additional companies, and brings to date the many changes in company ownership during the last decade.

• Midlife Crisis of Paul Revere, The by Ian Fletcher. (2005 - Kindle Edition)
Book Description
In Ian Fletcher's second book, Paul Revere has achieved an enviable situation in life. He is doing well in his job. His children are grown and gainfully employed. He works, hunts, fishes and occasionally he and his wife, Gwen, make love. Life is good until Gwen develops a severe case of "Empty Nest Syndrome." All of a sudden she is dissatisfied with everything in her life, including her husband who doesn't "get it." Before he knows it they are separated and Paul's life is badly out of joint. When he moves out of their home, a lovely co-worker named Jennifer finds out he is available. She invites him to a home cooked meal where he discovers that life as a middle-aged single man is not so bad after all. Then Molly, a divorcee who attends his church, professes a long-standing crush on him. And, Nancy the realtor who finds him a place to live also expresses a need for his romantic attentions. Also Caroline, his tall, blonde and elegant former back-yard neighbor develops a keen interest in him. All of a sudden Paul has a full schedule. This is a romantic comedy told with great wit, sophistication and subtle humor.

• Mr Revere and I by Robert Lawson. (1988)
Book Description
An account of the life of the Revere family and the activities of the Sons of Liberty as told from the point of view of Paul Revere's horse.

• Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths, The (Civilization of the American Indian Series) by John Adair. (1989)
Book Description by a reader
The book describes many facets involved in the creation of Pueblo Indian jewelry. This book is quite possibly the best and perhaps only scholarly work that explains jewelry making from the Indian perspective. The book gives much insight into the conditions on pre-1940 reservations and the trade practices that gave rise to "dead pawn" jewelry. This book is a must for serious collectors and those seeking thorough research. However, the book gives very little attention to the Harvey phenomenon, preferring to deal more directly with traditional Native American art (i.e. the jewelry that the creators would wear on themselves).

• Navajo Silversmiths (Studio Codex eBooks) by Dr. Washington Matthews and Dr. Carol K. Koemer. (2008 - Kindle Edition)
Book Description
Thanks to the interest in Native American culture by some dedicated scholar/explorers in the early years of America’s westward expansion, we have insights into their lifestyles. In this e-book we can benefit from the commentaries of Dr, Washington Matthews to learn about the initial development of silversmithing among the Navajo people. His monologue, originally published for the Smithsonian Institution’s Bureau of Ethnology, gives us information about the simple working tools and techniques Navajo silversmiths used to create objects of utility and great beauty. Some of these straight forward techniques may be valuable for artists today.

• Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Hoslins Forbes. (1999)
Book Description
"Goes straight to the heart of life in old Boston without sacrificing an iota of universal quality." (The New York Times )

• Paul Revere (In Their Own Words) by George Sullivan. (2000 - Ages 9-12)
Book Description
From School Library Journal
Grade 4-6-These titles have "reluctant reader" written all over them. They are decently packaged with well-chosen and credited photographs, but the large-print, generously spaced text is written in short, choppy sentences, losing the narrative flow and the drama of history well told. In Lewis and Clark, the expedition is said to be traveling "mostly north" toward the Gates of the Mountains, after their portage of the Great Falls on the Missouri River, an egregious geographical error. Even more bizarre is the use of the term "Chopponish" for the much more commonly known Nez Perce. Expedition journals used the uncommon appellation, but there is no footnote explaining the connection. Unfortunately, in telling about the expedition's various encounters with Native Americans, Sullivan emphasizes the potentially threatening, unfriendly, and fearsome aspects. Paul Revere also contains factual errors but suffers even more from oversimplification. There is no discussion of the American colonial system as context for the independence movement and revolution; events such as the First Continental Congress are mentioned with no explanation. For a title on Lewis and Clark that is truly "in their own words" see Peter and Connie Roop's Off the Map: The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Walker, 1993), and for an excellent, accessible history, Rhoda Blumberg's The Incredible Journey of Lewis and Clark (Morrow, 1995) is hard to beat. Jean Fritz's And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? (Coward-McCann, 1973) remains a favorite account of the silversmith's daring role in revolutionary America. Given the sloppy effort, these titles are marginal.
Nancy Collins-Warner, Neill Public Library, Pullman, WA

• Paul Revere's Ride (Step into Reading) by Shana Corey with Chris O'Leary (illus). (2004 - Ages 4-8)
Book Description
The Redcoats are coming! The Redcoats are coming! Every second counts as patriot Paul Revere rides into the night to warn the colonists. Will he make it? Young readers will find out all about this real-life American hero in this fun, action-packed Step 3 reader.
“History and biography are also successful topics for level three readers. Random’s Step into Reading has the best offerings for the reading level. . . . They are high in kid appeal”—Booklist

• Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellos with Ted Rand (illus). (1996 - Ages 4-8)
Book Description
"Listen, my children, and you shall hear/Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere ..." So begins one of the most stirring poems in American literature. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote "Paul Revere's Ride" in 1861, nearly 100 years after the actual midnight ride that began on April 18, in 1775. The poem creates a suspenseful story as American colonist Paul Revere decides with his friend Robert Newman and others to avert a British attack on Concord, Massachusetts. The British had come from Boston in search of the colonists' arms supply. What Revere and his friends didn't know was whether the Redcoats would come by land (around the mouth of the Charles River) or by sea (across the river). Newman spotted the British "by sea" and signaled from the Old North Church tower to Revere, who was "Ready to ride and spread the alarm/Through every Middlesex village and farm,/For the country folk to be up and to arm." And, by morning, the country folk were ready, indeed. "Chasing the red-coats down the lane,/Then crossing the fields to emerge again/Under the trees at the turn of the road,/And only pausing to fire and load." This battle, the first of the American Revolution, drove the British back to Boston.

• Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer. (1995)
Book Description
Paul Revere's midnight ride looms as an almost mythical event in American history--yet it has been largely ignored by scholars and left to patriotic writers and debunkers. Now one of the foremost American historians offers the first serious look at the events of the night of April 18, 1775--what led up to it, what really happened, and what followed--uncovering a truth far more remarkable than the myths of tradition.
In Paul Revere's Ride, David Hackett Fischer fashions an exciting narrative that offers deep insight into the outbreak of revolution and the emergence of the American republic. Beginning in the years before the eruption of war, Fischer illuminates the figure of Paul Revere, a man far more complex than the simple artisan and messenger of tradition. Revere ranged widely through the complex world of Boston's revolutionary movement--from organizing local mechanics to mingling with the likes of John Hancock and Samuel Adams. When the fateful night arrived, more than sixty men and women joined him on his task of alarm--an operation Revere himself helped to organize and set in motion. Fischer recreates Revere's capture that night, showing how it had an important impact on the events that followed. He had an uncanny gift for being at the center of events, and the author follows him to Lexington Green--setting the stage for a fresh interpretation of the battle that began the war. Drawing on intensive new research, Fischer reveals a clash very different from both patriotic and iconoclastic myths. The local militia were elaborately organized and intelligently led, in a manner that had deep roots in New England. On the morning of April 19, they fought in fixed positions and close formation, twice breaking the British regulars. In the afternoon, the American officers switched tactics, forging a ring of fire around the retreating enemy which they maintained for several hours--an extraordinary feat of combat leadership. In the days that followed, Paul Revere led a new battle-- for public opinion--which proved even more decisive than the fighting itself.
When the alarm-riders of April 18 took to the streets, they did not cry, "the British are coming," for most of them still believed they were British. Within a day, many began to think differently. For George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Thomas Paine, the news of Lexington was their revolutionary Rubicon. Paul Revere's Ride returns Paul Revere to center stage in these critical events, capturing both the drama and the underlying developments in a triumphant return to narrative history at its finest.

• Revolutionary rumblings (Chester the Crab's comics with content series) (Chester the Crab's comics with content series) by Bentley Boyd. (2003 - Ages 9-12)
Book Description
Chester Comix can teach history to reluctant readers! The full-color comic Revolutionary Rumblings traces the political and economic arguments leading up to the American Revolution: the French and Indian War, the Boston Tea Party, the Committees of Correspondence, the Continental Congress and Battle of Lexington and Concord. Jokes and action carry today's students through these hard nonfiction concepts. A timeline across the top of every page helps them place events and people in context. The title on each page is a question, which makes for a good writing prompt. And the comix is indexed, making it a good research tool.

• Secret of Sarah Revere, The by Ann Rinaldi. (2003 - Young Adult) (Paul Revere's daughter)
Book Description
Thirteen-year-old Sarah Revere knows her father is a hero. But she also knows that Paul Revere guards a secret about the start of the Revolutionary War that he'll tell no one--not his new wife, not his best friend, not even his trusted daughter. It seems everyone in her family has secrets. Sarah's even got one of her own--and it's tearing her apart.
Reader's guide included.

• Silver Masters of Mexico, Hector Aguilar and the Taller Borda: Hector Aguilar and the Taller Borda by Penny C. Morrill. (1997)
Book Description
Here is a magnificent presentation of the Mexican artisans and their creations displayed in 484 beautiful color photographs. The chapters present the master designers and silversmiths whose reputations have grown to international fame with an intimate look at one of the principal designers, Hctor Aguilar, and the personnel at this workshop. Valentin Vidaurreta, Los Castillo, William Spratling, Antonio Pineda, Hubert Harmon, Enrique Ledesma, and many more craftsmen are represented by their exquisite designs.

• Silversmiths to the Nation: 1808-1842 by Donald L. Fennimore. (2007)
Book Description
Silversmiths to the Nation: Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner, 1808-1842 presents the first in-depth study of the celebrated silversmiths and their magnificent work. The firm these men established in Boston (1808-11) and Philadelphia (1811-42) revolutionised the significance of silver in America as a medium of public appreciation and introduced a new era in silver production. The grand presentation pieces Fletcher & Gardiner created for the heroes of the War of 1812 are without equal. These objects have no American precedent in their scale, patriotic imagery, and fabrication. The everyday household and personal silver the firm produced in abundance as well - from teapots to jewellery - spoke to the needs of an upwardly mobile class in the early 1800s. Indeed, the Fletcher & Gardiner manufactory was the Tiffany of its day. Some 100 works from the firm have been located and are included in this lavishly illustrated volume. Many are from private collections and are published for the first time.

• Silver Touch by Rosalind Laker. (1987 - YA)
Book Description
YA When readers first meet 12-year-old Hester Bateman in 1720, she is newly orphaned and unable to read but adept at sketching birds and flowers. By the end of her life, she is an accomplished silversmith and a shrewd London businesswoman and the first Bateman to register her trademark as an independent silversmith. Readers of historical romances will relish the colorful story of Hester's marriage and many children. Laker has built a solid reputation for novels rich in the details of a craftfurniture making, dress designing, or jewelry makingand now, in The Silver Touch, she succeeds at keeping readers interested in the methods Bateman used to achieve her elegant and simple style in domestic silver. Heartwarming genre fiction.
Keddy Outlaw, Harris County Public Library, Houston

• Yogya Silver: Renewal of a Javanese handicraft by Pienke W.H. Kal. (2005)
Book Description
Few detailed studies have appeared on the historical context of contemporary handicrafts in Indonesia since the publication of the standard work in five volumes by J. E. Jasper and Mas Pirngadie at the beginning of the twentieth century. One of these handicrafts is Yogya silver, a type of silverware that was developed in Yogyakarta (Yogya) and Kotagede, a small town southeast of this provincial capital. Yogya silver has been made for centuries, but thanks to the efforts of Dutch and Javanese promoters of decorative crafts, Yogya silver craft underwent a profound transformation in the early twentieth century. This catalog focuses on the styles and decoration of Yogya silver in this period and describes its history. Some of the most important works from famous collections are showcased, a list of silversmiths initials is included, and some of the works have been dated.

Many people are familiar with this type of silver work--though they may not know it to be named Yogya Silver--because this is what many of them bring home as a souvenir from Indonesia. This recent popularity, in fact a revival, has brought Yogya silver new fame. It has become collectable and older pieces are sought after. With this renewed interest came many questions: who are the makers, is there meaning in the designs, just how old are some of the pieces? This book is the next step in an ongoing effort to answer these and many more questions surrounding Yogya silver.

• Silversmiths of North Carolina,1696-1860 by Mary R. Peacock. (2nd revised edition) (1984)
Book Description
This is the second revised edition of Dr. George Barton Cutten's landmark 1948 book Silversmiths of North Carolina, 1696-1860. This new edition lists 273 silversmiths with a biographical sketch of each based on extensive use of primary and secondary sources. It includes 447 black-and-white illustrations of silver pieces and marks, a revised introduction, an increased number of notes, appendixes not in earlier editions, and a complete name and subject index. This edition extends the period covered to 1860 (the previous editions ended in 1850).
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(This web page updated 7/3/05; 8/7/08)