MARTIN ELLIS
Collecting contemporary silver at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

RICHARD HILL
A cone cut obliquely; the work of Michael Rowe

GONÇALO DE VASCONCELOS E SOUSA
Luiz Ferreira and Manuel Alcino; two twentieth-century silversmiths in Oporto

‘PEATURF’
Kurt Ticher’s research and collection of Irish silver

PIERS PERCIVAL
Maker’s mark a heart : could this be the work of Robert Amadas?

ANTHONY SALE
Made in Gloucestershire

KARIN TEBBE
On growing flowers, stylistic howlers and tulip cups

DANIEL PACKER
Christoph Jamnitzer’s Metamorphosis beakers

ERIC J.G. SMITH
The subject of much controversy: the Founder’s Cup at Oriel College, Oxford

DAVID McKINLEY
AH crowned cinquefoil below and HA crowned cinquefoil below : a possible attribution

T.A. KENT
The Earl of Romney’s silver : an important auction of 1704/05

THOMAS SINSTEDEN
Surviving Dublin assay records. Part 2 (1708-48)

PHILIP PRIESTLEY and PHYLLIS BENEDIKZ
The early records of Birmingham Assay Office

JACKIE RICHARDSON
First day cup returns to Sheffield Assay Office

DAVID NEEDHAM
Old Sheffield plate and the early wine label

VANESSA BRETT
The great (and lesser) toyshops

SIMON DAVIDSON
John Denziloe of London. A goldsmith working in Aldersgate 1774-1805 Tackle House Porters

KENNETH QUICKENDEN
Elizabeth Montagu’s service of plate Part 1

Obituary: Mrs G.E.P. How

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