Product Description: This volume presents the definitive history of the UK-born Stretch family of clock-makers who emigrated to Philadelphia in 1703 and played an influential role in the city's early clock-making, civic, and Quaker communities. Initial essays discuss the family and the importance of their Quaker beliefs; time-telling and the clock making community in pre-1750 Philadelphia; innovative mechanical advances made by the Stretches; and their notable civic and cultural contributions to the city...read more

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Product Description: This small but lavishly illustrated catalogue is the first in-depth study ever on silver bird-decorated spoons. Author Donald L. Fennimore, Winterthur's senior curator of metals, narrates the fascinating social, technical, and artistic tale of American silver spoons whose bowls were struck with bird images: from the dove and olive branch to the bald eagle...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An appealing catalog of the world's most important collection of soup tureens.

Product Description: This catalogue, a companion to Winterthur's first changing exhibition of the same name, features the best of the museum's collection according to its own curators. More than 90 objects from the exhibition are examined in the catalogue, including ceramics, glass, furniture, paintings, prints, metalwork, textiles, books, and other materials from the library...read more