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  Few knowing the vast resources and the long experience of mer    of foreign
and English silver-work, as been stated that the inferiority of
the eminent firm of Messrs. HUNT & ROSKELL, of London. who now  the latrha
been in a great measure attri  tbe to the absence of good designs,
conduct the business formerly carried on by Messrs. Storr & Mor- and
to  superior taste and delicacy of fl  h in the foreign workmen. Recent



























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events abroad- have, however, brought over a number of the latter to
                                                              this country,
and there cannot be a doubt that we have greatly benefited by this
                                                       Q- sfusion of adventitious
aid with English energy, perseverance, and eapita   More-
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                                                            )  overmanufacurers
have found it essential to their interests to seek the 'assistance
                                                  -          ~~~~of other
heads than those of the mere artisan, however skilful as a workman, to
                                                              invent, and
suggest, and improve. Hence from these two causes a decided change


timer, will be surprised to find them making a display in the
Exhibition commensurate with the reputation of an establishment
that produces many of the most costly manufactured articles in
the precious metals. Without disparagement to any other house
in London, in a similar branch of business,. it may be said that
Messrs. Hunt & Roskell have no rival in the extent of their transac-
tions, and a visit to their show-rooms is like inspectng a museum
of Art. We, therefore, feel that we do not pay an unmerited
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every kind and description, by devoting two or three pages Of Our  for the
better has, within the past few years, been perceptible in every branch of
Ctaleogue mto  a noticeoftheir ont ions dsage In the remarks we  this department
of Industrial Art; and we may add, without egotism, that the
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have occasionally made in the Art-ingtw o upon the comparative  Pages of
the ArttTwtornal have had some influenee in in  elioration,


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