The Vintage Journal Old Prospector Panning for Gold (Pocket Sized - Found Image Press Journals)
The Encyclopedia of Early American Silversmiths and Their Marks with a concise Glossary of Terms
by Rita R Benson
This stunning volume showcases and explores a rich and varied collection of Asante royal regalia in the broader context of Asante art. The Asante Kingdom, founded around 1701 in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), was renowned for gold, the foundation of its wealth and power. For centuries they mined this metal and traded it with northerners on the Saharan caravan routes and Europeans along the Atlantic coast. The earliest examples of Asante gold were recovered from the wreck of the Whydah, a slave ship...
Warman's Sterling Silver Flatware (Warman's Sterling Silver Flatware: Value & Identification Guide)
by Phil Dreis
Metal Detecting The Only Hobby Where Screamers Are A Good Thing
by Hrs Publishing
A Connoisseur's Guide to Antique Silver (Connoisseur's guides)
by Ronald Pearsall
Keys, Their History and Collection (Shire Library, #560)
by Eric Monk
The oldest keys known to exist date from around 4,000 BC in Ancient Egypt. These were simple wooden cylinders that were part of a mechanism to secure doors. By the time of the Roman Empire, metal keys were in common usage and had begun to adopt the recognizable pattern of keys today. This book tells the complete story of the key, backed by numerous photos from all time periods. Today, old keys are more than just security mechanisms. They are highly collectable artifacts that can either be artist...
The first complete monograph of the extraordinarily inventive work of Luigi Valadier, arguably the greatest silver- and goldsmith in eighteenth-century Italy. Luigi Valadier (17261785) was an extraordinarily inventive Roman metalsmith, talented draughtsman, and maker of both table decorations and objects in gilt bronze, marble, and hard stone. His exquisite table centrepieces - produced for popes, royalty, and aristocrats, in Rome, as well as in France, England, Spain and Portugal - were cons...
Opium Weights and Other Animal-Shaped Weights
by R. J. Willis and G. Herman
The commonly used but incorrect term "opium weight" refers to the distinctive and highly collectible animal-shaped weights that originated in Burma and neighbouring regions. In fact, the weights were hardly used for opium, being found mainly in markets, initially for weighing bronze, silver and gold, but later for all sorts of commodities. Originating in the Burmese kingdoms of Bagan and Ava, their initial designs were drawn from animals linked with stories from the life of the Buddha, local rel...
Sir Robert Walpole's collection of Old Masters, and the building and furnishing of Houghton, the great Palladian house he built in Norfolk, have been the focus of extensive study in recent years, but his silver has not received the same attention. However, the discovery of inventories in the National Archives has allowed a picture to be built up of the sheer scale of Walpole's silver holdings, which were, like everything else about the man, larger than life. What silver that survives includes so...
The Gold of the World (English language edition)
by George Ch Chourmouziadis
This large format, lavishly illustrated book is silk-bound and slip cased. Th e book examines man's relations with gold through myth, art, religion, the economy and everyday life. From the author's Prologue: `This book attempts to trace the course taken by gold in the company of man. An endeavour of this kind does not try to exhaust the evidence, it simply touches on matters, describes them with a few words and leaves the reader to dream of the Conquistadors of Columbus, the gold-diggers of C...
Masterpieces of Italian Decorative Ironwork (Dover Jewelry and Metalwork)
by Augusto Pedrini
Collecting & Investing Strategies for Walking Liberty Half Dollars (Strategy Guides (Zyrus Press))
by Jeff Ambio
