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Americans became
the largest producers and consumers of silverware in the
world in the latter half of the 19th C. As
well as a large group of talented Americans of native
origin, master craftsmen were brought from Europe.
Fine silver came to be viewed as necessary to
increasingly elaborate social rituals. A wide variety of
artistic movements and revival styles quickly followed
one upon another in the latter half of the 19th C. A great
variety of forms prompted consumers to become more
adventurous in their choice of silverware. Lauren Stanley
offers the exotic, the practical, the rare, the
collectible -- in Hollowware.
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