ملف:Makers of Early American Silver by Robert Ensko, published in 1915, page 3.jpg

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Some early American pieces of silver are North more today than their weight in gold, yet through the want of knowledge to their real value and scarcity. by some dealers, as well as others, many find their way to the melting pot while the collectors are vainly hunting the cities and towns all over the United States in their efforts to add to their collections. While I obtain numerous pieces from time to time, I can supply but very little as compared to the demand. I hope this catalog will help to save some of the old plate. If we had a man like Mr. George Munson Curtis, of the International Silver Company of Meriden, Connecticut, in every state, it would be but a very short time before all that could be known about the makers of silver in the different states would be revealed. He is not only a liberal collector of Connecticut silver but has published a beautifully illustrated book on early silver of Connecticut an, history of its makers, well worth reading. In the exhibitions held recently in the New York and Boston Museums of Art there was a great display of beautiful and artistic workmanship in the early piece of American silver. With all the new methods and our machine, we can produce no better silver than the old craftsman who knew eve, branch of his trade thoroughly. While we find that Massachusetts was the home of the earlier silversmiths, New York, Philadelphia, and Connecticut were also fully supplied with good workmen very shortly after. On page 27 will be found forty-three pieces of early American plate belonging to Hon. Alphonso T. Clearwater, which he has not been able to fully identify to his own satisfaction. Any information in regard to these marks, such as the names of makers, time and place where they worked, or the owners' names and addresses of pieces bearing the same marks will be gratefully received. I sincerely hope all the marks will soon be fully identified, as it is really too bad to see so many beautiful pieces unidentified.
Robert Ensko, 598 Madison Avenue, New York City.

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