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The master workman. Sitting cross-legged in his tiny shop in one of the queer streets of Prizren, this Turkish artisan works long hours every day making sugar tongs, napkin rings and all sorts of silver filligree works. Serving as an apprentice in his shop is a Serbian boy who was adopted by the silversmith from the American Red Cross orphanage in Skopjle. He, too, is becoming an expert at fashioning the most elaborate designs out of silver which is purer than sterling

The master workman. Sitting cross-legged in his tiny shop in one of th...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Group title: General, Serbia. Gift; American National Red Cross 194... More

Purer than sterling. These beautifully wrought sugar tongs and napkin rings are made of silver that is "purer than sterling", beaten and woven into shape in a small shop across from the big American Red Cross hospital in Skopjle, south Serbia. Ther sic were made by the Turkish craftsman by an ancient process which has been used for the last thousand years by the moslem artists. Silver coins are melted down and the metal drawn into fine wire. Then with tiny pliers, anvila, and hammers, the master workman twist and pound the metal into intricate scrolls and wreaths for silverware

Purer than sterling. These beautifully wrought sugar tongs and napkin ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Group title: General, Serbia. Gift; American National Red Cross 194... More

Napkin rings used in creating target for element 101, taken April 24, 1972.  Principal Investigator/Project: Analog Conversion Project

Napkin rings used in creating target for element 101, taken April 24, ...

Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Berkeley Lab

Cruet, napkin ring and mustard pot with spoon.

Cruet, napkin ring and mustard pot with spoon.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a crest, heraldry, coat of arms, symbol, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Table bells and napkin rings. - Public domain cabinet drawing

Table bells and napkin rings. - Public domain cabinet drawing

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hanna Pauli - Frukostdags

Hanna Pauli - Frukostdags

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Napkin Ring (Scotland for export), 1880–1900 (CH 18634305)

Napkin Ring (Scotland for export), 1880–1900 (CH 18634305)

Tartanware Public domain photograph of a ring, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Napkin Ring (Scotland), ca. 1880 (CH 18634293)
Metal Napkin Ring from 1900 Veiled Prophet organization

Metal Napkin Ring from 1900 Veiled Prophet organization

Metal napkin ring with references to Veiled ProphetTitle: Metal Napkin Ring from 1900 Veiled Prophet organization.

Pewter Napkin Ring With Flower and Leaves Decoration

Pewter Napkin Ring With Flower and Leaves Decoration

Pewter napkin Ring with a with daisy flower and leaves decoration. This is a souvenir from the 1904 World's FairTitle: Pewter Napkin Ring With Flower and Leaves Decoration

Pewter Napkin Ring With Simple Vine Border

Pewter Napkin Ring With Simple Vine Border

Pewter napkin Ring with a simple vine border. This is a souvenir from the 1904 World's FairTitle: Pewter Napkin Ring With Simple Vine Border

Small Folding Metal Napkin Ring Souvenir From the 1904 World's Fair

Small Folding Metal Napkin Ring Souvenir From the 1904 World's Fair

Small folding metal napkin ring souvenir with color Fleur-de-lis button from the 1904 World's Fair.Title: Small Folding Metal Napkin Ring Souvenir From the 1904 World's Fair

Small Folding Metal Napkin Ring With Black and White Image of the Administration Building

Small Folding Metal Napkin Ring With Black and White Image of the Admi...

Small folding metal napkin ring with black and white image of the Administration Building on button from the 1904 World's Fair.Title: Small Folding Metal Napkin Ring With Black and White Image of the Administra... More

Small Folding Metal Napkin Ring With Black and White Image of the Palace of Machinery

Small Folding Metal Napkin Ring With Black and White Image of the Pala...

Small folding metal napkin ring with black and white image of the Palace of Machinery on button from the 1904 World's Fair.Title: Small Folding Metal Napkin Ring With Black and White Image of the Palace of Machinery

Anneau de serviette Jehan Raymond Petit Français illustré 1904

Anneau de serviette Jehan Raymond Petit Français illustré 1904

Napkin ring designed by Jehan Raymond, in: Le Petit Français illustré, Paris.

Victor Gabriel Gilbert Laying the table
Ye Olde Curiosity Shop 1916 catalog p. 21 - illustration only

Ye Olde Curiosity Shop 1916 catalog p. 21 - illustration only

Page 21 of Ye Olde Curiosity Shop (Seattle) 1916 catalog, with illustration depicting a variety ivory objects. Objects include cribbage boards, napkin rings, paper knives, and billikens, among others. Many of t... More

Ye Olde Curiosity Shop 1916 catalog p. 21

Ye Olde Curiosity Shop 1916 catalog p. 21

Page 21 of Ye Olde Curiosity Shop (Seattle) 1916 catalog, with illustration depicting a variety ivory objects. Objects include cribbage boards, napkin rings, paper knives, and billikens, among others. Many of t... More

Sherlock Holmes Museum 003

Sherlock Holmes Museum 003

Sherlock Holmes Museum, Baker Street, London "Sherlock Holmes's Room" (set table)

Signac 2 - A painting of people sitting around a table

Signac 2 - A painting of people sitting around a table

Public domain photograph of 19th-century French painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Monet, Das Frühstück - A painting of a family sitting at a dinner table

Monet, Das Frühstück - A painting of a family sitting at a dinner tabl...

Das Frühsrück Public domain photograph of Claude Monet's 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926 was a French Impressionist painter, one of the most import... More

Zinaida Serebryakova (1914) At Breakfast (cropped) detail3 Tanya

Zinaida Serebryakova (1914) At Breakfast (cropped) detail3 Tanya

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Zinaida Serebryakova (1914) At Breakfast detail1 Zhenya

Zinaida Serebryakova (1914) At Breakfast detail1 Zhenya

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Zinaida Serebryakova (1914) At Breakfast (cropped) detail2 Shura

Zinaida Serebryakova (1914) At Breakfast (cropped) detail2 Shura

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Zinaida Serebryakova (1914) At Breakfast

Zinaida Serebryakova (1914) At Breakfast

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Gri 33125015636471 0046

Gri 33125015636471 0046

Caption from page 17 of Modern English Silverwork, by C. R. Ashbee: "Four pepper casters and two serviette rings: the casters are quite plain, except the one with four carbuncles or other stones set round the ... More

Follot-p-documents-ca.1895-BK001199 0026

Follot-p-documents-ca.1895-BK001199 0026

Plate 12 of Documents de Bijouterie et Orfèvrerie Modernes, by Paul Follot, cropped and contrast boosted

Follot-p-documents-ca.1895-BK001199 0046

Follot-p-documents-ca.1895-BK001199 0046

Plate 10 of Documents de Bijouterie et Orfèvrerie Modernes, by Paul Follot, cropped and contrast boosted

Cut Seashell Napkin Ring From the 1904 World’s Fair

Cut Seashell Napkin Ring From the 1904 World’s Fair

Cut seashell napkin ring. This is a souvenir from the 1904 World's Fair.Title: Cut Seashell Napkin Ring From the 1904 World’s Fair.

Round Silver-Plated Napkin Ring With Raised Image of the Cascade Gardens

Round Silver-Plated Napkin Ring With Raised Image of the Cascade Garde...

Round silver-plated napkin ring with a raised image of the Cascade Gardens. This is a souvenir from the 1904 World's Fair.Title: Round Silver-Plated Napkin Ring With Raised Image of the Cascade Gardens

Round Aluminum Napkin Ring From the 1904 World’s Fair

Round Aluminum Napkin Ring From the 1904 World’s Fair

Round aluminum napkin ring. This is a souvenir from the 1904 World's Fair.Title: Round Aluminum Napkin Ring From the 1904 World’s Fair.