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swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 Registered: May 2003	posted 02-25-2007 01:10 AM [19-0805] Milled bands are an example of an early application of manufactured decoration to hand made objects - one of the first intrusions of the coming industrial revolution into the craft of silversmithing. Rolling mills produced both flat (sheet) silver for forming into hollowware from about the 1790's, and also produced bands of decorative silver to be applied for decoration and to strengthen edges such as rims and bases. In the period from about 1810-1840, a profusion of bands were produced. Some can be considered basic or standard patterns, as their use was widespread. Others, however, were regional or even proprietary in nature, and thus often can allow the maker of an unsigned or a retailed piece to be traced to a particular shop, or at least to a particular city or region - which in turn could help match an owner's initials with a particular family. In order to prevent this thread from becoming unwieldy, those contributors who post pictures of bands alone (and maker's names when known) as well as those with more pictures and information should post in a new thread (or continue in a related existing one). We will duplicate illustration(s) of band(s) from the other posts in this thread for quick reference, re-editing as new ones are added. We will use in the glossary itself the recognized name of a pattern (or a temporary name in quotes until the proper one is found), and a city, state or region, as appropriate. This information may change as data accumulate. For brevity, at least at first, we will not put each minor variation of a recognizable pattern in the glossary, but will analyze these data at a later date. We will accept by email for the glossary only, photographs of patterns (accompanied by maker's name (if any) from nonmembers or others wishing not to reveal their ownership of an object (we may request more if needed by return email). Should contributors wish to make a more full contribution they should post it themselves (registering if necessary and posting in the new Member Forum from which we will transfer appropriate information to this thread). Email for this purposes only should be directed to: MilledBanding[at]SMPub.com (substituting @ for [at]). IP: Logged
swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 Registered: May 2003	posted 02-25-2007 11:08 AM THE GLOSSARY: STANDARD PATTERNS 1: Beaded Gadrooned Greek Key Fluted Reeded Etoile IP: Logged
swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 Registered: May 2003	posted 02-25-2007 11:08 AM STANDARD PATTERNS 2: TBA IP: Logged
swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 Registered: May 2003	posted 02-25-2007 11:10 AM NONSTANDARD PATTERNS 1: "Oak" (New York, Shepherd & Boyd) Basketweave (PA/ MD, George Franciscus, Jr.) "Pastoral" (New York, W.B.Heyer) "Harvest" (New York, Boyce & Jones) "Rockwell" (New York, Edward Rockwell, John Wolfe Forbes) "Grapevine" (Boston, Alfred & George Welles; New York, Najah Taylor) "Rose" (Philadelphia, Fletcher & Gardiner) IP: Logged
swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 Registered: May 2003	posted 02-25-2007 11:12 AM NONSTANDARD PATTERNS 2: Palmette (PA/MD, Fletcher & Gardiner, George Frenciscus, Jr.) "Arches 1" (Cincinatti, OH Edward Kinsey) "Shields" (Philadelphia, Chaudron's & Rasch) "Shell 1" (New York, Wm. Thompson) "Shell 2" (New York, John Wolfe Forbes) "Thistle" (New York, John Wolfe Forbes) "Stars" (Unknown) IP: Logged
swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 Registered: May 2003	posted 02-25-2007 11:13 AM NONSTANDARD PATTERNS 3: "Circled Stars" (Philadelphia, Ward & Cox; Chaudron's & Rasch (?) "Scroll" (New York, John Wolfe Forbes) "Bacchus" (Philadelphia, Joseph and Edward Lownes) "Scalloped" (Philadelphia, John or Samuel Warrington "Leaf and vine 1" (Philadelphia,Amable Brasier/Chaudron's & Rasch) "Grape and flower" (New York, John Crawford) "Grape, vine and flower" (New York, John Crawford) IP: Logged
swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 Registered: May 2003	posted 02-25-2007 11:13 AM NONSTANDARD PATTERNS 4: "Flowers, cables and beads" (Tennessee, James Merriman) "Leaf and vine2" (Boston, Nathan Hobbs) "Escutcheons" (Philadelphia, Peter L. Krider) "Braided" (Providence, RI, Gorham Company) "oak leaves and acorns" (Boston, Nathan Hobbs) "acanthus leaves" (Philadelphia, Thomas Wriggins) "grapevine 2" (Philadelphia, Thomas Wriggins) IP: Logged
swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 Registered: May 2003	posted 02-25-2007 11:15 AM NONSTANDARD PATTERNS 5: "Ivy" (Newburgh, New York, John L. Westervelt) "Grape and Crescent" (New York, William Forbes) "Bellflower" (Philadelphia, Curry and Preston) "Shell, thistle and flower" (New York, Gerardus Boyce) [This message has been edited by swarter (edited 11-05-2007).] IP: Logged
wev Moderator Posts: 4121 Registered: Apr 99	posted 10-31-2008 09:55 AM A nice simple reeded leaf band from a Boston cup c 1815 IP: Logged
bascall Posts: 1629 Registered: Nov 99	posted 06-12-2009 06:26 AM These are just such good looking images of some very fine silver decorations that I had to take the liberty of giving them a "bump." IP: Logged
vathek Posts: 966 Registered: Jun 99	posted 06-12-2009 03:35 PM Just a thought but the Arches 1 remind me of egg and dart. IP: Logged

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