. Early silver of Connecticut and its makers . u Plate Plate xiii. EARLY SILVER OF CONNECTICUT AND ITS MAKERS plate remains, but the great bulk of it hasdisappeared forever,—most of it consignedto the melting-pot, to issue thence in mod-ern forms of nondescript styles or no styleat all. The temperance movement in theearly part of the last century is responsiblefor the disappearance of quantities of oldplate. Many of the old porringers, tank-ards, beakers, mugs, and cans were trans-formed into spoons and forks by our localcraftsmen, of whom Hartford and NewHaven had so many. What stories
. Early silver of Connecticut and its makers . u Plate Plate xiii. EARLY SILVER OF CONNECTICUT AND ITS MAKERS plate remains, but the great bulk of it hasdisappeared forever,—most of it consignedto the melting-pot, to issue thence in mod-ern forms of nondescript styles or no styleat all. The temperance movement in theearly part of the last century is responsiblefor the disappearance of quantities of oldplate. Many of the old porringers, tank-ards, beakers, mugs, and cans were trans-formed into spoons and forks by our localcraftsmen, of whom Hartford and NewHaven had so many. What stories of this iconoclasm couldhave been told by Beach, Ward, Sargeant,Pitkin, and Rogers, of Hartford, and Merri-man, Chittenden, and Bradley, of NewHaven! Indeed, one begins to believe that everytown of any importance in this State hadits local spoon-maker, whose trade wasnearly as familiar to the inhabitants as thatof the village blacksmith. But, of all causes for the disappearanceof old plate, none was equal to the feelingthat the good old silver, utensils
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