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Chaffers' Handbook To Hall Marks On Gold And Silver Plate; Great Britain and Ireland; With Tables Of The Annual Date Letters Employed In the Assay Offices
by Cyril G. E. Bunt
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
London, UK: William Reeves, Bookseller, 1949 William Reeves, Bookseller, London, UK. 1949. Hardcover. Stated 7th Edition; 2nd Impression. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light bumping to head, tail, and lower tips. No DJ. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 158 pp 12mo. This book is designed as a convenient reference book. It has been a drastic revision with the entire text revised and augmented. The marks are as close an approximation as possible to the appearance of the original stamps. An introductory chapter has information of interest to collectors. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009238
- Title
- Chaffers' Handbook To Hall Marks On Gold And Silver Plate; Great Britain and Ireland; With Tables Of The Annual Date Letters Employed In the Assay Offices
- Author
- Cyril G. E. Bunt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 5th or later Edition
- Publisher
- William Reeves, Bookseller
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1949
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- silver marks, gold marks, Great Britain, Ireland, assay office letters, Hall Marks, Scotland, silver plate, gold plate,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art/Music/Motion Pictures/Television; Geology;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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