THE SOCIETY’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY
The stake project
The commissioning of cups
The first fifty chairmen
The early years
St Dunstan’s Day dinner
The Journal
People – Fifty years in the silver trade. Richard Vanderpump interviewed by Philippa Glanville

PETER SCHMITT
Christoph Diemer’s vessels for communion: a legacy in his lifetime

RACHEL CONROY
The work and legacy of the Sheffield Artcrafts Guild

ANN EATWELL
Furnishing a late Victorian dinner table

DORA THORNTON
The Waddesdon Bequest as a neo-Kunstkammer of the nineteenth century

DOROTHEA BURSTYN
A Canadian wine jug

LESLIE SOUTHWICK
New light on John Linnit, goldsmith, jeweller and boxmaker

ROSS FOX
Robert Cruickshank (1743-1809) Silversmith of London and Montreal; with an appendix: Robert Albion Cox

JUDY JOWETT
Trade cards at the British Museum – Charming ephemera or important research source?

BRUCE JONES
Mr Robinson’s conviction for counterfeit marks

ANTHONY DOVE
Further observations on plate duty and its marks

ANTHONY SALE
Plate tax

LUKE SCHRAGER
Silver ephemera – a rare survival

GALE GLYNN
The Ormond(e) titles

THOMAS SINSTEDEN
Household plate of the dukes of Ormonde

ALFRED HAGEMANN
A Prussian rediscovery – two Elizabethan chain bottles in Oranienburg Palace

SOPHIA DICKS
‘Perfume for a lady’s chamber’ – a seventeenth-century perfume burner

REGULAR FEATURES

Basics:
English eighteenth-century candlesticks

Books and exhibition catalogues
Corrections to previous issues – Letters to the editor
Miscellany
New work
Recent acquisition
Recent articles
Recent exhibitions
Sales by auction
The Society’s website