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The collection of silver shown at Seaford House last May

has a worthy record in Queen Charlotte's Loan Exhibition of Old Silver (Saint Catherine Press, £2 2s. 6d.). Arranged to benefit especially Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital, it was as finely representative of the silversmith domestic craft in England, Ireland, and Scotland as any that could possibly have been brought together. Here we have the catalogue, introduced by Mr. W. W. Watts and the Hon. Andrew Shirley, and illustrated by eighty well-reproduced plates of important pieces. The limiting date for the old silver was that of the Hospital's foundation, 1739. Fifty examples of modem silver were also shown, and some of

them are included among the illustrations.