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How has Silverwork been lost through the ages?

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Much Italian and French silverwork was melted down for reuse and thus lost.The Reformation brought destruction to ecclesiastical art of N Europe, and much plate was melted down in England during the Wars of the Roses so that little early English silver is extant.

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