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Identifier: americanhomesga101913newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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important member of the guild ofsilver workers, as was also his brother-in-law, John Cony,who, besides being one of the subscriberstoward the building of Kings Chapel in1689, also engraved the plates for the firstpaper money used in America. Anotherinfluential craftsman was John Edwards,whose shop was at 6 Dock Street, and stillanother was Edward Winslow, who re-ceived his permit as goldsmith from theselectmen in 1702. Records of many ofthe early New York silversmiths have been clever engravers, for much of the excellence and beauty oftheir wares depended upon the skill with which they en-■ graved the lettering, crests, coats of armsand other decorations which they used.The same engravers designed and exe-cuted many of the early American book-plates, and the brilliant cartoons of oneearly engraver, who was primarily a sil-versmith, form a bitter arraignment ofthe policy of the British government of theday. Their skill in designing and engrav-ing also played an important part in the
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A group showing a fluted tea-urn, sugar-bowl, and tea-pot by Paul Revere, and other pieces by his contemporaries MaFch, 1913 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 99 making of our first American currency. A study of oldAmerican silver will readily show that the objects wroughtwere chiefly those which combine utility with beauty. Teaand coffee services were in demand, with trays and salversof various kinds—flagons and tankards, beakers and bra-ziers, and the delicately perforated little strainers whichsometimes possessed one handle and sometimes two. Addto this list spoons and forks and porringers of differentkinds and the assortment of objects, the making of whichoccupied the time of our early metal workers, is complete. The illustrations convey some idea of the beauty anddelicacy of the silver made in those far distant days. Uponpage 96 is shown the exquisitely graceful little tea set ofthree pieces which was presented by a number of his fellowcitizens to Edmund Hartt, who constructed the fri

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