List of Reference Books and Websites
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
Iraq
https://www.iraqisilver.com/