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A Perfect Eye and Steady Hand: Goldsmithing in Tudor & Stuart London

By Hazel Forsyth, Frances Parton (Contribution by), Timothy Schroder (Contribution by), Dora Thornton (Contribution by)
Hardcover
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By Hazel Forsyth, Frances Parton (Contribution by), Timothy Schroder (Contribution by), Dora Thornton (Contribution by)
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An introduction to the history of goldsmithing in London, published to accompany the Goldsmiths’ Gallery at the new London Museum.

Gold and silver are precious: prized as a form of portable capital, essential for the mints and coinage, used to express power and status. Yet great skill was needed in the buying, the fashioning and the selling of either metal. Customers were demanding and often fickle. Very little plate or jewellery from the Elizabethan and Stuart period has survived because th...