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Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 10-31-2003 01:20 PM We don't have all of these references. Which are recommended? Are there others? Fox, Ross. Presentation Pieces and Trophies from the Henry Birks Collection of Canadian Silver. Ottawa; National Gallery of Canada: 1985. Mayor, Alfred Quebec silver. (Canadian silver collection) Catalogue Oct, 1998. Langdon, John E. GUIDE TO MARKS ON EARLY CANADIAN SILVER 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES. Ryerson, Press, Toronto, 1968 Unitt, Doris & Peter Canadian Silver, Silverplate & Related glass Clock House, Peterborough, 1970. IP: Logged
Callie Posts: 93 Registered: Mar 2002	posted 10-31-2003 01:32 PM None of those are much help with regard to 20th century Canadian metals. The best so far is Anne Barros' Ornament and Object: Canadian Jewellery and Metal Art, 1946-1996. It covers not only the 1st 50 years of the Toronto-based Metal Arts Guild, but 20th century metalsmiths from other parts of Canada. Published by Boston Mills Press in 1997. A good general coverage of crafts, including metalsmithing, is Gail Crawford's Studio Crafts in Ontario from 1930 to the Present. Published by Dundurn Press in 1998. Design in Canada: Fifty Years from Teakettles to Task Chairs, by Rachel Gotlieb and Cora Golden is good for products destined for the mass market, but it does cover several Toronto silversmiths whose intent was to design for mass production, though this never happened (Harold Stacey, Andrew Fussell, Doug Boyd). Knopf, 2001. I have a large bibliography of Canadian material with metals info. Maybe I help you find other titles. ------------------ IP: Logged
Callie Posts: 93 Registered: Mar 2002	posted 11-04-2003 11:26 AM I've just rechecked Rainwater (3rd ed) for Canadian content, and find she does include some Canadian makers, mostly production-based. Oddly, I don't see Birks or Ryrie listed. Am I blind? ------------------ IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 11-04-2003 12:22 PM In Rainwater's fourth edition: Birks is on page 47 Ryrie is not listed Birks and Ryrie are not listed in Rainwater's Fifth Edition. IP: Logged
Arg(um)entum Posts: 304 Registered: Apr 2002	posted 11-04-2003 02:38 PM A brief reference to Ryrie Bros. is on page 289 (4thEd.) IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 11-04-2003 03:09 PM You are correct. I guess I am the one who is blind IP: Logged

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