Sheffield plate, its history, manufacture and art; with makers' names and marks, also a note on foreign Sheffield plate, with illustrations
A 1908 reference book on Sheffield plate, a fused silver-on-copper metalwork, written by Henry Newton Veitch and published in London by G. Bell and Sons, covering its history, manufacture, art and maker's marks. The photographic plates show individual pieces against plain backdrops, including a covered sugar bowl with a shield cartouche, a half-fluted pitcher with a scroll handle, and tea and coffee wares photographed sideways. A designer could take the silhouettes of the vessels, the reeded and fluted bodies and the ornament on the lids and handles as neoclassical reference material.
