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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 11-06-2009 09:57 PM
  
While I was poking around for something else, I ran across this advertisement in A. E. Wright's Commercial Directory for 1840 What caught my eye was the line "Stamped Silver-Ware Manufactured at this establishment." Since thread and kings were already well established and fancy backs were past their day, I wonder what was being stamped that deserved special mention? IP: Logged |
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Ulysses Dietz Moderator Posts: 1265 |
posted 11-08-2009 08:50 AM
Fascinating clue about the origins of die-stamping! This must refer to drop-stamped or die-stamped silver--which is what ultimately replaced all those spoon makers who used more laborious hand-techniques. This was an entry level silversmith, clearly, aimed at the basic elements of silver ownerships for middle-class consumers. Stamped silverware, which would have been cheaper to make, would have been very appealing to the beginner silver consumer of 1840--there were still no patterns to speak of in American silver, fiddle and thread, and die-stamping would transform that truth by the end of the 1840s (Gothic is patented by Gale in 1848, and I suspect that the elusive Digney pattern is even earlier). Fiddle-and-thread could have been hand-made laboriously before it was drop-stamped quickly. IP: Logged |
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