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WGS Posts: 136 |
posted 04-15-2000 06:32 PM
  
I don't know much about British Sterling, but it seems there is an inordinate amount of Hester Bateman eighteenth century silver on eBay. Perhaps I get this impression just because I recognize her name. Did she produce a prodigious amount of work, or should we be wary of such attribution? IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 4132 |
posted 04-15-2000 08:41 PM
Ms Bateman and her various children employed dozens of apprentices and journeymen in their shop. Work would, as a matter of course, carry the master's, or in this case, mistress' mark. She is, for this and other reasons, vastly over-rated as a silversmith, in my opinion. We won't even get into the matter of forgery except to say it is thought by some authorities to be prodigious. IP: Logged |
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Clive E Taylor Posts: 450 |
posted 07-22-2000 06:39 PM
Hester Bateman was purely a business women - and a very successfull one at that. She had avery large factory and a prodigious output, mostly made for ecomony,not quality. She had one of the first steam engines in London for hammering and rolling silver as thin as possible. There is a vast amount about - as a vast amount was made. Although she had a very good designer(s) and her best is good, most was very poor quality IP: Logged |
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