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Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. Table of Contents
OUR NOTES:
The field of antique Russian silver has been attracting increasing attention in the collecting world. We recommend this book to collectors wishing to educate themselves further. As with other fields, as prices begin to rise substantially, the incentives also rise for unscrupulous persons to offer reproductions or to misrepresent the nature of an original Russian item.
The major portion of this book is dedicated to documenting the Makers Marks, as well as the marks of the Assay Masters, the official government inspectors who verified the work of craftsmen from each town’s local Trade Guild. A Russian style & glossary is included, covering: Bokal Bratina Bulotka Charka Easter Eggs Enamel Niello Kovsh Kruzhka Lozhka Ozhka Razlivate’naya Oklad Podstakannik Porrtsigar Sakharnitsa Samorodok Sitechko Spichechnitsa Vilka
The prominent Russian makers are covered, including: Jean-Pierre Ador Bolin Grachev Hahn, Carl Keibel Khlebnikov Morozov Nicholls & Plincke Ovchinnikov Jeremie Pauzie Sazikov Faberge
--- John Kincaid, Collector Bookstore
PUBLISHER’S DESCRIPTION:
With the fall of the Communist Regime and the freeing of travel restrictions to Russia, plus the growing wealth of many more of the Russian people, there has been an exceptional growth in interest of Russian silver throughout the world. Consequently, it has become very collectable and has been fetching high prices at the sales.
The author has worked on this project for many years and his efforts have provided a unique book of marks and insight into the Masters who produced this silver in Russia. Packed with useful information, plus a list of the major Silversmiths and their marks, it covers a Glossary of terms, Artels, Cyrillic alphabet, Assay Office marks by symbol and by town, marks in Cyrillic and Latin scripts and much more.
This is the only English language book on the subject in print that we know of, and as such, will be an asset for all collectors.
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