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Marcas de Pratas Portuguesas e Brasileiras - Fernando Moitinho de Almeida - Published in Lisbon by Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, this is the most important, celebrated, and indispensable scientific inventory and absolute reference work for experts, art historians, goldsmiths, antique dealers, and collectors, dedicated to the systematic identification of hallmarks and assay marks of old Portuguese and Brazilian goldsmithing, covering the period from the 15th to the 19th centuries. Authored by the eminent and dearly missed expert and assayer of the Lisbon Mint, Manuel Gonçalves Vidal, the work features a prestigious preface by Dr. João Couto (former Director of the National Museum of Ancient Art). It contains thousands of rigorous reproductions of assay marks, assays, and manufacturers active in the main national and colonial production centers. The copy is exquisitely bound in a solid and refined period binding in dark half-leather with corners, a five-rib spine elegantly decorated in gold with floral motifs and gilded titles, and cardboard plates covered in marbled paper. The book block and the invaluable heraldic mark tables are in excellent condition, free from acidity and completely clean.