The present Dublin alphabet ~A~ to ~Z~, Old English capitals (omitting J), commenced in 1896. The date letter for 1915 is ~U~. These letters are in the same order as the London alphabet from 1896, but the latter is small Roman, and commences again at ~A~ in 1916, whereas the Dublin alphabet continues to Z in 1920.
_Cork._ 1694. This series of marks shown opposite includes the mark of Robert Goble, of Cork, the maker. The two castles on different stamps appear on Cork examples, and the galley with sails.
_Cork._ 1764. These marks are drawn from a cream-jug (illustrated page 339), with fine chased and repoussé work, signed by Jonathan Buck in full, and having as a mark a buck, together with the word STERLING, which was sometimes used on Cork and other Irish silver.
[Illustration: 1669 CASTER (illustrated p. 331).]
[Illustration: 1706 Maker, Edward Barrett.]
[Illustration: _c._ 1770 CREAM-PAIL (illustrated p. 343).]
[Illustration: _c._ 1694 LOVING-CUP. Maker, Robert Goble. (illustrated p. 331).]
[Illustration: 1764 CREAM-JUG. Maker, Jonathan Buck. (illustrated p. 339).]
Addison, _Spectator_, quoted on salt spoon, 153
Alphabets of London date marks (1598-1835), 359-385
Anathema Cup, the (1481), Pembroke College, 90, 94
Apostle spoons, list of apostles with their emblems, 183; prices, 187, 193
Assay offices, early, 27; eighteenth century, 28
Basket work in silver, 276, 282; bread and cake baskets, 293
Beaker, the Stuart, 119; illustrations of the, 121
Bell-shaped salt cellar, illustrated, 147
Bowl, plum broth (1697), illustrated, 217
Britannia mark, when found on silver, 51; used when silver is _not_ higher standard, 58, 61
Buck, Jonathan, silversmith, Cork, specimen illustrated, 339
Busfield, William, silversmith, York, 113
Candle holders, part of centre-pieces, 276
Candlestick, brass, seventeenth-century, illustrated, 129
Candlesticks, silver-- Charles II examples illustrated, 227 Early eighteenth-century examples illustrated, 231 Early Stuart type, 225 Lambeth delft example (1648) illustrated, 223 Sheffield example (1782) illustrated, 235
Casters illustrated-- George II (Exeter), 273 Group (Queen Anne and George III), 277 Irish (1699), 331 Scottish (1746), 317 William III and Queen Anne, 269