As you walk into the new silver exhibition at the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, you are struck by the simplicity of some modest pieces and the dignity of other majestic items situated against ...

One of the oldest known pieces of colonial American silver is now a part of the impressive and still growing silver collection of Colonial Williamsburg. The newly acquired caudle cup — crafted in ...

An American silver coin from before the American Revolution that was recovered in an old cabinet in Amsterdam sold for $2.52 million at an auction, decimating the previous record. The threepence coin ...

For years, the local rumor of the "old mint" has tantalized Will Mumford: that once upon a time, America's very first silver mint operated in the brick basement of 10 Cornhill St. in Annapolis. In ...

Archaeologists unexpectedly unearthed the remnants of a 17th-century home's foundation while doing excavation work in Virginia. The site, which is located on the grounds of Colonial Williamsburg, was ...

The colonial silversmith produced items both functional and beautiful In this 1971 docudrama silver scraps are transformed into a magnificent new coffeepot under the skilled hands of the master ...

Like his better-known silversmith counterpart, Paul Revere of Boston, Myer Myers (1723-1795) became one of the most accomplished artisans of Colonial America — a practitioner of Rococo-style objects.