Click here to buy this book! Amazon Lulu The Edinburgh Goldsmiths I: Training, Marks, Output and Demographics amazon.com tesco.com Category:  History Publisher: Janice Dietert ISBN-10:  061514456X Type: Non-Fiction Pages: 197 Copyright: May 9, 2007 ISBN-13: 9780615144566 Guide to the Edinburgh goldsmiths and apprentices. This volume includes details of their maker's marks, training, output, and demographics. The book is a must for those interested in British silver. It is also important for other silver collectors and researchers since many Edinburgh trained craftsmen immigrated elsewhere. This book represents the first work describing the network of training and the social structure surrounding the Edinburgh goldsmiths. It spans nearly 500 years of the history of the City of Edinburgh Incorporation of Goldsmiths. The book also includes more than 130 maker's marks as actual images in the context of the master-apprentice relationship. Many of these marks have never been published in any prior context. The book should be appreciated by antique collectors, dealers, lovers of history and indivuduals searching for their family roots in Scotland.

Midwest Book Reviews
A unique and impressive contribution to scholarship, July 9, 2007
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The collaborative work of Rodney and Janice Dietert, "The Edinburgh Goldsmiths I: Training, Marks, Output And Demographics" is a definitive survey of almost five hundred years of the goldsmithing in Edinburgh, Scotland from the 1500s down to the present day and includes both apprentices as well as the freemen goldsmiths themselves. Among the roster of these 1,200 accomplished goldsmiths and their trainees are some of the most distinguished names known to recorded goldsmithing history. "The Edinburgh Goldsmiths I" includes 112 pages of diagrams spanning 15 generations of Scottish history illustrated with 130 photographs of goldsmith marks -- many of which are published here for the first time making "The Edinburgh Goldsmiths I" invaluable for genealogist as well as historians. Enhanced with a glossary of ancient professions as practiced in Europe, "The Edinburgh Goldsmiths I" is a unique and impressive contribution to scholarship that should be a core part of academic library Metalsmithing , Scottish History, and Genealogical Studies reference collections.