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Though more common than gold, silver has always been one of the most sought after metals for household use.
In spite of the enormous amount of silverware of fine quality manufactured today, it is no longer practical to have the individual piece designed and made for the individual consumer. (It is said, moreover, that there is only one commercially productive si 1 v e rsmith, as opposed to the many craftsmen in factories, in the entire country now, and he is in Virginia.
A high point in the production of silver by silversmiths in this country came at the end of the 18th and early part of the 19th Centuries when pieces with a great variety of designs were produced for individual buyers. This is not to say that the art of the silversmith was essentially of the 18th Century, for it is recorded by no less a personage than Captain John Smith that two goldsmiths, who were also workers in silver, arrived in Virginia in 1608.
A Robert Sanderson, who came to Massachusetts in 1683, was the earliest ‘ilver^mith in this country, examples of whose work are known today'. As early as 1660 Boston found it necessary to regu-' late apprentices by a law which Specified “It is therefore ordered
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