Due to the importance that features play in revealing the secrets about an object to researchers, many resources have been dedicated to the subject to provide assistance to those looking for more information, either about specific objects themselves or about the. Some sources refer to regions that no longer exist; the bibliography is sorted into countries that best represent these former regions of the past. Brands and Monograms of the Modern Movement A guide to the brands of artists, designers, retailers, and manufacturers of the Aestetic period.
The Hallmark Research Institute. The Hallmark Research Institute provides extensive research into Hallmarks around the world, including their two volume books on the hallmarks of the world from Europe to Asia. Hall marks on gold and silver plate. o 1891: https://archive.org/details/hallmarksongol00chaf o 1922: Link not available. Rome: De Luca, Edizioni dell'Ateneo di Brescia, ca. Guide to the world's gold brands.
Silver: 500 Years of Hallmarks: Catalog of an Exhibition at Goldsmith's [i.e. London: Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, 1978. o Link: https://archive.org/details/chatsonoldsilve00hayd. Trademarks of Jewelery and Allied Trades: being a comprehensive collection of illustrations and images of the registered and unregistered marks used by manufacturers and dealers in jewelery and silverware.
Metals Hallmarks by Country/Region
Chaffers' Handbook of Hallmarks on Gold and Silver Plate, Great Britain and Ireland, with Tables of the Annual Date Letters Employed in the Assay Offices. Old pewter, its makers and marks in England, Scotland, and Ireland: an account of the old pewter and his craft. English Goldsmiths and their Marks, A History of the Goldsmiths and Plate Workers of England, Scotland and Ireland; with over 13,000 Marks reproduced in Facsimile from Authentic Examples on Boards and Tables of Date Letters and other Hall Marks used in the Essay Offices of the United Kingdom.
Bestecke des Jugendstils: Bestandskatalog des Deutsches Klingenmuseum Solingen= Art Nouveau Knives, Forks and Spoons: Inventory Catalog of the Deutsches Klingenmuseum Solingen. The text discusses silver from Deventer and includes a full description of the Museum De Waag collection. History of Old Sheffield Plate; being an account of the rise, growth and decline of the British antique silver and white metal industry and trade, with chronological lists of maker's marks and numerous specimen illustrations.
Chaffers' Handbook to hall marks on gold & silver plate, Great Britain and Ireland, with tables of annual date letters used in assay laboratories. Old pewter, its makers and marks in England, Scotland and Ireland: an account of the old pewter and its craft. A brief description of an ancient silver plate belonging to the Worshipful Company of Armourers and Braziers.
The text explores the communion plate in the parish churches of the City of London, the County of London and the County of Middlesex. A copy of the register of persons interested in the manufacture of silver articles, and of the marks entered by them from 1773 to 1907. o Link: https://archive.org/details/registercopyofre00grea. Being a copy of the Sheffield Assay Office register of persons interested in the manufacture of silver-plated ware.
The essays showcase new research on the many aspects of the region's economic and social history. Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, 1992 and hallmark/ a report produced by The Goldsmiths' Company with the approval of The British Hallmarking Council. Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Maryland Silver in the Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Trade Marks of the Jewelery and Allied Trades: Illustrations and Representations of the Trade Marks, Trade and Pattern Names,. New York: Jewish Museum, New York, under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of American, 1996.
General Metals Hallmarks Online
General Ceramics Hallmarks in Print
A large compendium of ceramic and porcelain monograms from "the earliest times to the present" (MET). Encyclopedia of Marks on American, English, and European Pottery, Ironstone, Pottery Makers, Marks and Patterns in Blue and White, Historic Blue, Liquid Blue, Mulberry, Romantic Transferware, Tea Leaf, and White Ironstone. Collections on the history of pottery and porcelain in the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
Pottery and porcelain of all times and nations; with tables of factory and artist's marks for the us. A history of the pottery industry and its evolution as applied to sanitation, with unique specimens and facsimile marks from ancient to modern foreign and American wares.
Ceramics Hallmarks by Country/Region
Europe
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Vivian S. The Rita & Frits Markus Collection of European Ceramics and. A History and Description of Old French Faience, with an Account of the Revival of Faience Painting in France. The St. Petersburg Porcelain Factory, part of the Hermitage Museum that was exhibited at Somerset House in London.
Guide to English Pottery and Porcelain in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities. Old English Tablet Marks: Giving Tables of Alphabetical Date Letters and Other Hall Marks. Company plate and official city marks of England and Wales.
A guide to the Royal Porcelain Works, Worcester, and a summary of the history of ceramics and porcelain with markings on Worcester porcelain. o 1878: https://archive.org/details/guidethroughroy00roya o 1895: https://archive.org/details/guidethroughroya00roya. Celts, Romans and Saxons: a history of the first inhabitants of Britain, down to the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity/ Illustrated by ancient remains brought to light by recent research. Catalog of the Boynton Collection of Yorkshire Pottery presented to the Yorkshire Museum 1916 and 1920, together with notes on some of the Yorkshire pottery and the marks they used.
The Pottery and Porcelain of the United States; a historical overview of American ceramic art from the earliest times to the present. The Work of the potteries of New Jersey, from 1685 to 1876: being extracts from "The pottery and porcelain of the United States" by Edwin AtLee Barber.
General Ceramics Hallmarks Online
General Glass and Gemstones Hallmarks in Print
Vienna Moderne's early encounter between taste and utility; exhibition organized by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston, Texas, with support from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, The Smithsonian Institution's National Design Museum, New York.
General Glass and Gemstones Hallmark Titles Online
General Other Hallmarks: Furniture, Woodworking, Cabinetmaking, Stone Masonry
