Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers: A Biographical Dictionary Based on the Notes of Francis Hill Bigelow and John Marshall Phillips

by Patricia E. Kane and Tina Kane

This massive biographical dictionary offers the most thorough study of a group of early American craftsmen published to date. It contains biographies of 296 silversmiths and jewelers who worked in Massachusetts prior to the American Revolution, records of more than 6000 examples of their work, and illustrations of 424 of their marks. It completes and amplifies research undertaken at Yale since the 1930s when John Marshall Phillips (1905 - 53), the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0894670778
• ISBN13: 9780894670770
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Yale University Art Gallery
• Length: 1265 Pages
• Weight: 7.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.6" x 8.4" x 11.4"