List of Reference Books

Although there is now a lot of information online, there is still much more stored in specialist books and articles that have been. When I first began collecting, one of my mentor's told me to always invest in my library...it has paid off many times. 

This page is the start of compiling a list of the reference books available. 

By location

England
London

Birmingham

Chester

Exeter

Newcastle

Sheffield

York

Other English Provincial

 

Scotland
Edinburgh

Glasgow

Other Scottish Provincial

 

Ireland
Dublin

 

Cork

Cork Silver and Gold: Four Centuries of Craftsmanship by Conor O’Brien and John Bowen, 2005

Limerick

A Celebration of Limerick’s Silver by Conor O’Brien and John Bowen, 2007

Other Irish Provincial

Mulveen, Jack. “Galway Goldsmiths, Their Marks and Ware.” Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, vol. 46, 1994, pp. 43–64. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25535635

O'Brien, Conor. “The Goldsmiths of Waterford.” The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 133, 2003, pp. 111–129. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25509111

 

Channel Islands

 

Colonial

Australia

New Zealand

Carribbean
Bermuda

Jamaica

Asia

India

China

Cambodia

Thailand