Chats on Old Sheffield Plate

by Arthur Hayden

• Marks—
  on French cabinet work, [237]
  on porcelain, [232]
  on Sheffield plate, [62], [63], [231];(illustrated), [286-293]
  (Sheffield plate) fear of platers to stamp any, [64], [67]
  on Sheffield plate resembling silver marks, [62], [63]
  on silver, position of, [273]
  
• Melting down of old Sheffield plate, [253]
• Mignard fabricates a Guido picture, [20]
• Missionary-fostered art, [26]
• Mustard pot, the, [148]

• Newcastle-upon-Tyne—
  hall marks on silver plate, [277]
  silversmiths at, [278]
• Nottingham, silver plated ware made at, [68]
• Nozzles, removable, their indication of date, [96]

• Old masters, drawings of, copied by David Allan, [21]
• Old masters, prints of, simulated by Goltzins, [20]
• Original silver plate design copied by platers, [143]
• Ornament—
  spiral, its abuse, [106]
  useless, failure of, [110]

• Parliamentary Committee on conduct of assay offices (1773), [63]
• Parsons and Co., Pattern Book, [181]
• Patch boxes, Sheffield plated, [54]
• Pattern Books, eighteenth century, silver platers', [74], [86], [89], [139]
• Penalties—
  counterfeiting Duty Mark (1815) punishable by death, [48]
  for fraud in old plate, [36], [62], [63]
  for wrongly stamping Sheffield plate, [67]
• Petition of the buckle makers, the, [264]
• Pinchbeck, Christopher, and his imitations, [54]
• Pipe lighter—
  Sheffield plate, [241]
  illustrated, [239]
• Pitt, epigrams by Porson on, [189]
• Plating, silver—
  early, [35]
  pre-fusion period, [35], [39]
  process described, [58]
  used fraudulently, [35]
• Pompeii, influence of art of, [116]
• Poor relations and their foibles, [136]
• Porcelain factories, Derby and Worcester, origin of, [49]
• Potato rings, Sheffield plated, [177]
• Potters, copy of silversmiths' designs by, [28], [31]
• Pottery, French, supplants silver plate, [24]
• Pounce pot, the, and its use, [182]
• Prince of Wales's feathers used in design, [153]
• Process of Sheffield silver plating described, [58]

• Rise in value of old Sheffield plate, [269]
• Romney picture of Serena (Miss Sneyd), [119]
• Ruskin and copies of Turner drawings, [22]

• "Salt, below the," its meaning, [136]
• Salt cellar, the, [135]
  the new style, [147]
• Sauce boats, old silver, London makers of, [274]
• Scott, Sir Walter, his introduction of gas at Abbotsford, [116]
• Scottish hall marks on silver plate, [281]
• Seams a test of genuineness in Sheffield plate, [293]
• Sevrès porcelain makers' marks, [232]
• Shakespeare neglected by Addison and Steele, [51]
  revival of study of, [50]
• Sheffield—
  Assay Office, institution of, [40], [41]
  hall marks on silver plate, [277]
  origin of silver plating at, [39]
• Sheffield plate—
  old, destruction of, [253]
  wonderful technique of, [161]
• Sheffield platers—
  as to their originality, [143]
  deterred from placing any marks, [64], [67]
• Sheffield silver plate, makers of, eighteenth century, [278]
• Sheffield, silver plating process described, [58]
• Silver—
  duties in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, [48]
  price of, in eighteenth century, [47]
  lustre ware imitates silver plate, [35]
  marks, simulation of, by marks on Sheffield plate, [62], [63]
  plate designs copied by platers, [143]
  plate made at Sheffield assayed in London, [63]
  plate, value of hall marks on, [274]
  plating at Sheffield, origin of, [39]
  plating by fusion, its invention, [45]
  plating, early, [35]
  plating, the great period, [73]
• Silversmiths—
  copy of potters' designs by, [28], [31]
  list of late eighteenth century, [77]
  (London) who influenced Sheffield platers, [274]
• Simulation in art, [25], [28]
• Smith, J. R., engraving of Serena after Romney, [119]
• Spiral forms in candelabra, [100]
• Spectator, advertisement in (1712), [140]
• Spurious candelabra and their errors, [95]
• Steele, Richard, omits Shakespeare from list of great poets, [51]
• Steel toys, the, of Sheffield, [140]
• Sugar basin, the, [210]
  basins, old silver, London makers of, [274]
• Supper table, the, [238]

• Taper holders, [181]
• Tea and coffee sets, [201]
• Tea caddies and their makers, [196]
• Tea kettles, [205]
• Teapots, [189]
  old silver, London makers of, [274]
• Tea urn, the, [202]
• Technique, wonderful, of Sheffield plate, [161]
• Tinder boxes, Sheffield plated, [286]
• Toasted cheese dishes, old silver, London makers of, [274]
• Trencher salts, their use, [147]
• Tureens—
  old silver, London makers of, [274]
  soup, [220]
• Turner drawings, facsimiles of, [22]
• Tutenag, an alloy of antimony and zinc, [267]

• Urn, the tea, [202]
• Utility the true test of ornament, [110]

• Value of old Sheffield plate, [269]

• Ward, his replicas of Turner drawings, [22]
• Wedgwood, Josiah—
  shell-forms, adoption of, [31]
  carved wood models, use of, [31]
  indebted to metal-workers of Sheffield, [32]
• White metals, German silver, etc., [267]
• Wine coolers, old silver, London makers of, [274]
• Wine labels, Sheffield plated, [53]
• Wood engraving, decadence of, [41]
• Worcester china, workmen's marks on, [289]