CONTENT

ABBREVIATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PREFACE

TUĞRA AND SILVERMARKS

• Tuğra
• Composition of the tuğra
• Other marks
• Tuğra on coins Tuğra on silver ware
• Positioning of silver marks
• Tuğra on weights
• Foreign marks on Ottoman silver
• Ottoman marks on foreign silver ware
• Why Ottoman silver ware so rarely survived
• Silver marks not encountered on any articles
• Imperial tuğra on silver ware
• Counterfeit tuğra marks
• Assaying and the SAH mark
• Silver standards and marks
• Gold standards and marks
• Silver ingot marks

MAKERS’ MARKS

• Silversmiths
• Silver divit makers
• Positioning of makers’ marks on divit and inkwells
• Inscriptions and decoration inside inkwell lids
• Spoon makers
• Makers listed by town
• Divit and inkwell makers
• Silver divit makers

ASSAY OFFICES

• Tuğra marks used at the assay offices

SILVER WARE

• Silver Pen-Case
• Tobacco Case

APPENDIX

DOCUMENTS

• Ottoman sultans and their reigns
• List of silversmiths
• List of goldsmiths
• List of silversmiths in the register of the Bostancıbaşı
• List of silversmiths, goldsmiths, gilders, engravers, mıhlayıcı (craftsmen who did studded jewel work), gold thread makers, silver sheet makers, and sadekâr (makers of undecorated gold or silver ware) who paid tax to the Armenian Patriarchate in 1872

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX