and turned back to finish the bottle. We like this story. A piece of plate with Sir Robert Vyner’s initials of the year 1675 would possess added value for this touch of nature which makes the whole world kin. On the look-out for links connecting the silversmith with things human we find an interesting shop card of Ellis Gamble, to whom by his own desire young Hogarth was apprenticed and learned to engrave on silver plate. It may be imagined that he was not an “Idle Apprentice,” and his early work with the graver on the flagons and tankards in Mr. Gamble’s shop should stimulate research. It was here that he drew heraldic beasts. His apprenticeship terminated when he was twenty years of age. There is preserved in _Hogarth Illustrated_ (by Ireland) the engraving of the Kendal Arms during his apprenticeship, showing fine design. We give the inscription on Ellis Gamble’s shop card, which is in a frame, termed by bookplate collectors “Chippendale.” There is a full-length figure of a winged angel standing on a scroll, and the lettering is somewhat crowded below in English and in French:-- “Ellis Gamble, Goldsmith at the Golden Angel in Cranbourn Street, Leicester Fields, Makes Buys and Sells all sorts of Plate, Rings and Jewells, etc.” An interesting sidelight on makers’ names is afforded by the various copper tokens which they struck, bearing their names and addresses. We append a short list of goldsmiths’ tokens of the seventeenth century. They come from various parts of the country and from Ireland, and readers having seventeenth century silver bearing these initials may be able to identify the maker. LONDON. The Hermitage (Wapping) John Mayhew. Gouldsmith His Halfepeny Neare the Armitage Bridg. I.M 1666 West Smithfeild Euodias Inman. his halfe Peny In Smithfeild Rounds. Gouldsmith. Beech Lane (Barbican) (on a farthing). Elizabeth Wood (with the Goldsmiths’ arms) In Beach Lane. 1656. E. W. Seacole Lane (Snow Hill) (on a farthing). Samuell Chapell in Seacole Lane, 1671. The Goldsmiths’ arms on reverse. EXETER (on a farthing). Samuell Calle (with design of a man smoking) Gouldsmith in Exon (with design of covered cup). BATH (on a farthing). Geo. Reve. Goldsmith (with Goldsmiths’ arms) In Bath. 1658. G. M. R. OXFORD (on a farthing). Will Robinson 1668 (with Goldsmiths’ arms) Gouldsmith in Oxon W. M. R. DOVER (on a farthing). Willian Keylocke (with the Goldsmiths’ arms) In Dover. 1667. W M K IRELAND. Dublin (on a penny). Io. Partington. Gouldsme. (Arms: on a bend cotise, an eagle). Kinges head. Skinner Row, Dublin, 1d. KILKENNY (on a penny). William Keovgh 1d. Kilkeny. Goldsmith (with design of a mermaid).