7 DECEMBER 1929, Page 49

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In Apostle Spoons, their evolution from earlier types and the Emblems used by the Silversmiths for the Apostles (Oxford University Press, 42s.), Mr. Charles P. Rupert describes the existing English sets of six or more spoons of the same date and by the same maker—five of them have the complete thirteen —and copiously illustrates them and others. From a study of the sets and many isolated examples he concludes that, unlike the painters, the silversmiths always gave the same emblem to each Apostle, save in the cases of SS. Thomas, Matthias, and Jude, in which some followed the Italian and some the German system.