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• Title:[Commercial traveler's catalog of silver-plated ware, possibly made in Sheffield].
  
• Published/Created:[Sheffield, England?] : [s.n.], [ca. 1780]
  
• Physical Description:13 prints (in 1 volume) : engravings ; 24 x 37 cm.
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Folio A 2011 114
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
    

   
• Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary marbled wrappers.
  
• Summary:Catalog of 30 designs of silver-plated ware, on 13 engraved leaves, by an unidentified manufacturer. The volume lacks a title page, and there are no names for printers or engravers on any of the plates. Each design is consecutively numbered (A, 1-29) in pen and brown ink. Many pages bear multiple designs. Each design is also priced, in pen and red ink. Prices range from 21/- for a large cruet stand, to 2/- for a dozen small spoons. No item is named. The catalog includes designs for: salt cellars; tea caddies; teapots; spoons; candlesticks; and numerous cruets and cruet stands.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Subjects:Sheffield plate--Catalogs.
  Silver-plated ware--Catalogs.
  Cruets--Catalogs.
  Tableware--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
  Decoration and ornament--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
  Metal-work--Great Britain--Catalogs.
  Decoration and ornament--Great Britain--Catalogs.
  Commercial catalogs--Great Britain.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1780.
  
• Genre/Form:Trade catalogs.
  Engravings--1780.