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Links We welcome any suggestions for suitable links. Please contact us with the address. http://www.925-1000.com/ - an excellent on-line encyclopaedia of American, British, European and Mexican silver marks, hallmarks and maker's marks. http://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/index.htm The 24 Hour Museum website is a gateway to UK museums on the web. Goldsmiths Company (London Assay Office) - www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk. N.B. Goldsmiths Hall hold regular Fakes and Forgeries seminars in London and Edinburgh. Similar events are planned for New York City and Williamsburg, USA from Summer 2007. These events are highly recommended and are both fun and informative. Contact Goldsmiths Hall for further information. Sheffield Assay Office - www.assayoffice.co.uk Birmingham Assay Office - www.theassayoffice.co.uk Edinburgh Assay Office - www.edinburghassayoffice.co.uk/ http://www.ascasonline.org/ - a web-site by the Association of Small Collectors of Antique Silver hosting articles written by it's members on silverware. The private web-site, by the host of the ASCAS site, can be found at www.silvercollection.it and features images/descriptions of his silver collection with items from all over the world. For information about the Ticktum Charitable Trust and St. Giles Silver http://www.ticktum-silver.co.uk/ plus the opportunity to purchase a video entitled "A Brief History of the Spoon" or CD ROM's covering a variety of spoon related subjects. For those interested in sugar nips, take a look at Dr. Shlosberg's excellent site www.silverteatongs.com from where you can contact the man himself. Alternatively, if you prefer sugar tongs, visit Graham Hodges' specialist web-site for Georgian period tongs at www.silversugartongs.com or Nigel Le Sueur's at www.castsugartongs.co.uk. For those of you interested in contemporary, Celtic-style silver there is now a web-site dedicated to Alexander Ritchie of Iona at www.alexander-ritchie.co.uk Where to see spoons:- The Victoria & Albert Museum, South Kensington, London - www.vam.ac.uk/ - the recently restored silver galleries are a joy to wander around, with plenty of spoons! The Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, London - www.gilbert-collection.org.uk/ - one of the World's greatest collections of silver . The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/ - examples of all early spoons, including all of the apostles. National Museum & Gallery of Wales, Cardiff - www.nmgw.ac.uk/nmgc/ - a large & wide ranging collections of spoons amongst it's extensive collection. The National Museum of Scotland. www.museum.scotland.net/ With approximately 3,000 items, this is the largest and most comprehensive collection of Scottish silver in the world. Most city museums contain a selection of silver and where appropriate include locally made wares which can often be provincial spoons, e.g. Aberdeen, Bristol, Norwich, Exeter... Where else to buy spoons on the net :- www.payneandson.co.uk/ - one of the finest high street retailers in the UK with a wide ranging stock and a particularly strong range of arts & crafts and modern silver. www.bexfield.co.uk/ - home to the Silver Spoon Club of Great Britain and lots of fine spoons on offer. www.silfren.com - a good selection of silver on offer at realistic prices. www.styles-silver.co.uk - a great selection of silver on offer from one of the friendliest retailers. Specialists in modern silver and models of animals/birds etc. www.coritani.com - very professional and well organised web-site by one of the foremost dealers in spoons, boxes and other items of collectable silver. www.weldonsofdublin.com - a premier Dublin retailer with probably the finest range of Irish silver available anywhere. http://www.schredds.com/ - a large and comprehensive web-site covering the entire range of small silver collectables with a very good selection of spoons on offer. www.leopardantiques.com - based in South Africa with a good selection of both Cape and English silver. An excellent links page. We welcome any suggestions for suitable links. Please contact us with the address.
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