Description
Silver Publishing Co., Inc., Milwaukie, Oregon, 1980. Wraps, 44 pp.; 28 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographs and line drawings; pictorial cover printed in blue and black.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition. Pictorial paper covers with light bumping and creasing to edges and corners, mild shelf wear, and light toning and soiling; scattered small brown specks along left edge of front cover. A few small rubbed spots to printed text at left of rear cover. Staple bound, binding tight. Pages lightly toned, otherwise unmarked. Single issue of the bimonthly collectors' magazine on antique and collectible silver, edited by Beulah D. Hodgson. Written in February 1980, VeNette's "The Modern Yo-Yo, Silver" explains the Comex futures market and Nelson Bunker Hunt's buying during silver's run to $48 an ounce, from the antique dealer's side of the counter; an editor's note records the fall that followed. E. H. LeBaker reports on the General Services Administration's 1980 sale of the Treasury's hoard of Carson City silver dollars. Robert Alan Green continues his catalog of Adirondack souvenir spoons (items 23-38, with 25 figures), and Charles H. Carpenter, Jr. describes an 1852 Gorham spoon engraved for the Rhode Island State Fair as a candidate for the earliest American souvenir spoon. Also includes Primrose Rostron on wedding silver, with apostle spoons and cow creamers from the Victoria and Albert Museum, reader questions on marks and patterns, and dealer advertisements and classifieds with period flatware prices. Cover: stirrup cup in the shape of a fox's mask, c. 1827 (Victoria and Albert Museum). Contents: Feature Articles: More Adirondack Souvenir Spoons, by Robert Alan Green; An Early Souvenir Spoon, by Charles H. Carpenter, Jr.; The Modern Yo-Yo, Silver, by VeNette; Of Umbrellas and Parasols, by Beulah D. Hodgson; Silver for Weddings, by Primrose Rostron; All That Glitters Is Not Silver, by Jack Tanis. Regular Columns: More on Silver, by Heloise Drager; Numismatics: "The Carson City Dollar Sales Program," by E. H. LeBaker; Collectors Corner: "Billie and Montie Guthrie are 'Grape Nuts'"; Silver Views, by Clare Ryan Talbot; Current Silver News: "Spoon Collectors Conference July 17-20," "Georg Jensen at The Renwick Gallery," "Silver, Enamel Wine & Sauce Labels at Cincinnati Art Museum," "Sterling Flatware Puzzle: Popular Patterns," by Jean Winkler Hudder; Ask a Question, by Donna Felger. Supplements: Souvenir Spoons: Provincial Apostle, Probably St. Philip, by Dorothy T. Rainwater; Goddess of Mercy, by Diane Zinn.