Table of Contents

Introduction; Tools of the Trade; Silver as a Precious Metal; Shaping & Forming Silver; Hollowware; Flatware; Silver Styles; Marks on Silver.

About the Author

Philip Luker did an Arts course at Sydney University and then became a newspaperman on the Sydney Daily Mirror, The Sun, the Daily Telegraph, The Australian Financial Review and the London Daily Mail. He backpacked (before the word was invented) through 48 countries and was the first Australian journalist to get into Communist China, in January 1956. The articles and photos he sold, including a cover story in Time and a front-page series in all US Hearst newspapers, paid for the rest of his world trip, during which he travelled right through North, Central and South America and Africa. At Los Angeles Airport he met Marilyn Monroe on her way to marry Arthur Miller -- she held on to his hand while he thought of as many questions as he could. Back in Australia and wanting to run his own business, he successively launched, published and edited four management newsletters, Foodweek, Inside Retailing, Greenweek and Mediaweek, all of which concentrated on controversy and personalities and all of which are still being published by others. He returned to Africa to interview Australian doctors and nurses working for Medecins Sans Frontieres and, back in Australia, continued to interview MSF volunteers returning home and had a hundred stories published about them. Luker lives in Sydney with his wife, Margaret.