Centrepieces, old silver, London makers of, 274 Chair-backs, a test to apply to their beauty, 109 Chester hall marks on silver plate, 277 Chester--Liverpool, and Birmingham silversmiths' work assayed at, 278 China factories, Derby and Worcester, origin of, 49 Chippendale chair-backs, the test of their beauty, 109 Christie's, price of Sheffield plated candlesticks sold at, 269 Close plating, 261 Coasters (decanter stands), 166 Coffee pots, 206 Coffee pots, old silver, London makers of, 274 Contemporary silver designs in Sheffield plated period, 274, 278, 281, 282 Continental trade, Sheffield platers and, 154 Copyists of old masters, 21 Cream jugs, old silver, London makers of, 274 Danger of public clamour for marks, 293 Date of examples, Sheffield plated, absence of proof of, 289 Death penalties for tampering with silver plate, Geo. III (1815), 48 Decanter stands, 166 Decadence in design, in candlesticks, 126 Design Book, Sheffield Plate, eighteenth century, 139 Designer, the, his greatest asset, what to omit, 109 Destruction of old Sheffield plate, 253 Die work in Sheffield plating, 82 Dies, destruction of old Sheffield plate, 250 Dinner table, passing of the, 254 Dish rings, Sheffield plated, 177 Drunken habits of eighteenth century, 189 Duties on silver, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, 48 Economic substitution, 22 Electro plating, its invention, 290 Empire style candelabrum, 116 English craftsmanship, imitativeness of, 27 English porcelain factories, origin of Derby and Worcester, 49 Engraving, not an imitative art, 28 Engravings, when printed in colours, imitative art, 28 Epigram by Porson on Pitt, 189 on weight in plate, 202 European imitativeness, 25 Exeter hall marks on silver plate, 277 Factory system, the, 268 Fashion of buckles, decline of the, 263 Foreign policy, Carteret's pronouncement on his, 48 Foreign silver plating in Sheffield style, 290 Fraud by silversmiths, penalties against, 35 French-- marks on silver-plated ware, 290 plating, an early process, 39 plated ware, regulations regarding, 209 Garrick, David, his revival of Shakespeare, 50 Gas introduced to light Abbotsford, 116 George IV and the fashion of buckles, 263 German silver and other white metals, 267 Gin bottle covered with bead work, 26 Glass designs imitate silver, 35 Glass, Venetian, copied in Germany, 25 Goltzins simulates prints of old masters, 20 Grease pans, their indication of date, 99 Guido picture fabricated by Mignard, 20 Hall marks on old silver, illustrated, 275, 279, 283 Hancock, Joseph (Sheffield), his share in developing silver plating, 61