Silver and Flatware

Information and history of tea infusers. Visitors may submit tea ball images from their own collections.

Reference site for designer William Spratling with more than 300 photos, tips, history and a question and answer forum.

Reference site for collectors of tea tongs by the author of "Eighteenth Century Silver Tea Tongs". Includes a forum and newly-discovered information since the book was published.

A forum dedicated to collecting silverware with sections on reading hallmarks, cleaning and restoration. Most suitable for beginner and intermediate collectors.

A personal collection of antique silver and objects of vertu, primarily Continental, with an image index of the corresponding marks.

Informative articles, resources and news about antique silver, silverplate and stainless flatware, holloware and smalls.

An informational site about Georgian silver sugar tongs, including makers, hallmarks, assay offices and images of tongs.

Resource for learning about collecting silver, silversmiths, flatware and holloware with a question and answer forum.

A forum for an exchange of information about silverware and cutlery of all sorts with a particular focus on French silver, especially nineteenth-century pieces.

A photographic directory of American, British, European & Mexican silver maker's marks and hallmarks found on antique sterling and coin silver.

A study focusing on the Arts and Crafts metalwork movement in Chicago, especially The Kalo Shop, America's longest-lived silversmith operation. Includes examples and images of marks.

Charleston, South Carolina Silver Lady, Dawn Evers Corley, offers classes on antique silver and educational lectures at Planters Inn, Charleston Place and Wentworth Mansion.

ASCAS is an association for collectors and lovers of antique silver. Includes informative and historical articles, and newsletter archive.