Gilda aurifabrorum; a history of English goldsmiths and plateworkers, and their marks stamped on plate
Gilda aurifabrorum is a reference book by William Chaffers, published in London by W.H. Allen in 1883, cataloguing English goldsmiths and their stamped marks for collectors and silver specialists. Its pictures are rows of small black-ground panels filled with tiny stamped mark devices, arranged in columns beside large letters, offering a designer a dense, orderly pattern of repeated symbols and monogram-like shapes.
