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

DOCUNENTS

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