The photographs and extensive descriptions of early American silver provide a wealth of information. This volume features 141 lots of silver made in: Kentucky, Southern and Baltimore, Philadelphia silver, Delaware silver, Newport, Boston, Albany, New York silver. Works by Paul Revere Jr., Jacob Hurd, Edwards and Allen, and John Coney of Boston. The lots are grouped by location of the silversmiths.

Essays by Wendall Garret and Phyllis Kane cover the biography and collection history of Walter M. Jeffords, an executive of the Brooklyn Borough Gas Company and horseman.