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Online References

 

Want to know how silver is made?  Or the difference between a lemon fork and an oyster fork?  Or all 63 SOACB medalists?

 

Original source material on Arts & Crafts metalcrafters is often difficult to find.  Below are full-text articles and references on Arts & Crafts metalwork, Kalo Shop marks, the Society of Arts and Crafts Boston, how machine-made and handwrought silver is fabricated, as well as catalogs showcasing metalcraft tools and Edward Oakes rings, and more. 

 

CHICAGOSILVER  RESEARCH  INDEX

Silver Marks and Master Marks Index

 

1926 Arthur Stone article

Kalo Shop Marks

 

1924 Janet Payne Bowles article

1916 History of American Silver

 

1916 and 1926 Samuel Yellin articles

1903 Silversmith's Tools and Techniques

 

1908 Frost Workshop Tools Catalog

1927 Machine-made vs. Hand-Made Objects

 

Edward Oakes Ring Catalog

1937 How Silver is Made

 

Handwrought Jewelry (1906 article)

1949 Society of Arts and Crafts Boston

 

Handwrought Jewelry (1910 article)

1937 The Story of Sterling

 

Handwrought Jewelry (1911 article)

1909 Glossary of Jewelry Terms

 

Handwrought Jewelry (1915 article)

1937 Glossary of Sterling Terms

 

1937 Illustrated Utensil Guide

1914 Monogram Construction / Orno Shop

 

1917 Chicago Artists' Guild with Who's Who

1909 Jewelry in the Arts & Crafts Movement

 

1932 Silversmiths of New England

Josephine H. Shaw 1915 House Beautiful

 

1924 Albert Wehde Chasing/Repoussé Book

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How Silver is Made -- Brooklyn Museum 1937 exhibition on industrial and hand-wrought silver

How Silver is Made

-- Brooklyn Museum

1937 exhibition on

industrial and hand-

wrought silver

(view it)

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1916

American

Magazine of Art

History of US Silver

(view it)

1903 Handicraft Magazine Article On The Tools And Techniques Of The Early   Arts & Crafts Silversmiths

1903

Handicraft

Magazine Article

On The Tools

And Techniques

Of The Early

Arts & Crafts

Silversmiths

(view it)

1915 American Magazine of Art article on Arts & Crafts Jewelry with examples by Hale and Rogers

1915

American

Magazine of Art

article on

Arts & Crafts

Jewelry with

examples by Hale

and Rogers

(view it)

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1927

American

Magazine of Art

speech by Frank

Gardner Hale

on machine-made

objects versus

hand-made ones

(view it)

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1909

"Jewelry in the Arts and

Crafts Movement "

from A Book of

Precious Stones by

Julius Wodiska,

containing good

information and

examples by F. G. Hale

and many students

(view it)

1908 Frost Arts & Crafts Workshop catalog, which includes metalworking 
tools, gemstones, supplies, and even do-it-yourself kits.

1908

Frost

Arts & Crafts

Workshop

catalog, which

includes

metalworking

tools, gemstones,

supplies, and

even do-it-

yourself kits.

(view it)

Discussion and history of marks from the Kalo Shop, with lots of examples

Discussion

and history

of marks from

the Kalo Shop,

with lots of

examples

(view it)

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1917 Chicago Artists'

Guild Publication, with

Who's Who Directory,

Artists' Guild and Arts

Club History, and ads.

(view it)

(Undated) small catalog of wedding rings issued by Edward Oakes

(Undated)

small catalog of

wedding rings

issued by

Edward Oakes

(view it)

The Keystone, Nov. 1910, on Shaw, Rogers, Colarossi and Rockwell

Shaw repousse buckle

The Keystone,

Nov. 1910, on

Shaw, Rogers,

Colarossi and

Rockwell

(view it)

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1926

American

Magazine of Art

Arthur J. Stone bio

(view it)

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1932

American

Magazine of Art

article on The

Silversmiths of

New England

(view it)

Society of Arts and Crafts Boston article in 1949 Handicrafts of New England by Allen H. Eaton

SOACB Medal to Rogers

Society of Arts and

Crafts Boston

article in 1949

Handicrafts of

New England by

Allen H. Eaton

(view it)

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1916 and 1926

American

Magazine of Art

articles on

Wrought iron by

Samuel Yellin

(view it)

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1937 book

The Story of Sterling

containing a

history of silver,

examples of

decorative periods,

a guide to silver

patterns and servers,

care and cleaning

suggestions, a brief

list of silver marks,

and a silver

(view it)

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SILVER GLOSSARY

from 1937 The Story

Of Silver article

(view it)

 

JEWELRY GLOSSARY

From 1909 A Book of

Precious Stones

(view it)

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Don't know your

lemon fork from

your oyster fork?

check out this

Illustrated Utensil

Guide from

1937 The Story

Of Silver article

(view it)

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1906 article from Good

Housekeeping on

Arts & Crafts jewelry

with examples by

Jane Carson,

Elizabeth Copeland,

Margaret Rogers, etc.

(view it)

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1911 article from Good

Housekeeping by

Carol Colbourne on the

"new" handwrought

jewelry movement.

Includes examples by

Margaret Rogers,

Josephine Hartwell

Shaw, and [pupils of]

Theodore Pond.

(view it)

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1914 article in The

Industrial Arts Magazine

by Orno Shop owner

H. R. Sorensen on

creating applied

mongrams

(view it)

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1924 International

Studio article on

Janet Payne Bowles

(view it)

 

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