Chats on Old Sheffield Plate

by Arthur Hayden

• Cabinet makers, French, stamped marks of, [237]
• Caddies, tea, and their makers, [196]
• Cadman, Robert, and Co., (Sheffield), [89]
• Cake baskets, Sheffield plated, [165]
• Candelabra—
  and candlesticks, [79-131]
  old silver, London makers of, [274]
• Candelabrum, the—
  its varieties, [90]
  the tri-form, [115]
• Candlestick—
  the chamber, [119]
  the table, [120]
• Candlesticks—
  early types, [81]
  from eighteenth century Pattern Books, [74], [86], [89]
  old silver, London makers of, [274]
  Sheffield plated, their price, [269]
• Carteret's "Drunken Administration," [48]
• Centrepiece, the, [245]
• Centrepieces, old silver, London makers of, [274]
• Chair-backs, a test to apply to their beauty, [109]
• Chester hall marks on silver plate, [277]
• Chester—Liverpool, and Birmingham silversmiths' work assayed at, [278]
• China factories, Derby and Worcester, origin of, [49]
• Chippendale chair-backs, the test of their beauty, [109]
• Christie's, price of Sheffield plated candlesticks sold at, [269]
• Close plating, [261]
• Coasters (decanter stands), [166]
• Coffee pots, [206]
• Coffee pots, old silver, London makers of, [274]
• Contemporary silver designs in Sheffield plated period, [274], [278], [281], [282]
• Continental trade, Sheffield platers and, [154]
• Copyists of old masters, [21]
• Cream jugs, old silver, London makers of, [274]

• Danger of public clamour for marks, [293]
• Date of examples, Sheffield plated, absence of proof of, [289]
• Death penalties for tampering with silver plate, Geo. III (1815), [48]
• Decanter stands, [166]
• Decadence in design, in candlesticks, [126]
• Design Book, Sheffield Plate, eighteenth century, [139]
• Designer, the, his greatest asset, what to omit, [109]
• Destruction of old Sheffield plate, [253]
• Die work in Sheffield plating, [82]
• Dies, destruction of old Sheffield plate, [250]
• Dinner table, passing of the, [254]
• Dish rings, Sheffield plated, [177]
• Drunken habits of eighteenth century, [189]
• Duties on silver, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, [48]

• Economic substitution, [22]
• Electro plating, its invention, [290]
• Empire style candelabrum, [116]
• English craftsmanship, imitativeness of, [27]
• English porcelain factories, origin of Derby and Worcester, [49]
• Engraving, not an imitative art, [28]
• Engravings, when printed in colours, imitative art, [28]
• Epigram by Porson on Pitt, [189]
  on weight in plate, [202]
• European imitativeness, [25]
• Exeter hall marks on silver plate, [277]

• Factory system, the, [268]
• Fashion of buckles, decline of the, [263]
• Foreign policy, Carteret's pronouncement on his, [48]
• Foreign silver plating in Sheffield style, [290]
• Fraud by silversmiths, penalties against, [35]
• French—
  marks on silver-plated ware, [290]
  plating, an early process, [39]
  plated ware, regulations regarding, [209]

• Garrick, David, his revival of Shakespeare, [50]
• Gas introduced to light Abbotsford, [116]
• George IV and the fashion of buckles, [263]
• German silver and other white metals, [267]
• Gin bottle covered with bead work, [26]
• Glass designs imitate silver, [35]
• Glass, Venetian, copied in Germany, [25]
• Goltzins simulates prints of old masters, [20]
• Grease pans, their indication of date, [99]
• Guido picture fabricated by Mignard, [20]

• Hall marks on old silver, illustrated, [275], [279], [283]
• Hancock, Joseph (Sheffield), his share in developing silver plating, [61]
• Herculaneum—
  design from, [116]
  influence of art of, [116]
• Hogarth, "the Scottish," David Allan, [21]

• Imitativeness, European, [25]
• Imitation—
  as a fine art, [19]
  of hall marks by Sheffield platers, [289], [290]
  decadence of wood engraving, [41]
• Imitations of Sheffield plate, [158]
• Inkstands, [181]
• Invention of silver plating by fusion, [45]
• Ireland, silver plating by fusion carried on in, [71]
• Irish dish or potato rings, [177]
• Irish Government offers premium (1783) for plated ware made in Ireland, [71]
• Irish hall marks on silver plate, [281], [282]
• Irish plated skewer marked "Sly," [262]

• Jackson, John, copyist of Reynolds, [21]
• Jugs, hot water, [227]

• Kettles, tea, [205]
• Knick-knacks, a world of (eighteenth century), [54]
• Knife handle of stamped Sheffield plate, [50]

• Lamb, Charles, quoted, [136]
• Liverpool silversmiths' work assayed at Chester, [278]
• Liverseege, Henry, copyist of Vandyck, [21]
• London, silver plating carried on at, [68]
• Louis XIV—
  orders silver plate to be melted, [23]
  his extravagant use of silver plate, [23]