[Rarebooks] FS: Utica New York Silver & Silversmiths - Cutten 1936 Limited Edition

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"The Silversmiths of Utica" by George Barton Cutten. Published by the 
author in 1936. Limited to 257 signed copies.

The story of Utica silversmiths is primarily a story of spoon-makers, 
but George Barton Cutten researches it with his usual thoroughness and 
tells it with his usual flair.

George Barton Cutten [1874–1962] was a Canadian-born psychologist, moral 
philosopher, historian, university administrator, and author of numerous 
studies on American silver. As a young man he kicked around at a variety 
of jobs including reporter, salesman, and pipe fitter, and according to 
family legend was then locked in his room by his uncle until he agreed 
to go to college. After graduating Acadia University, he earned a degree 
in divinity and a PhD in psychology at Yale. He served as president of 
Acadia University from 1910 to 1922, except for a period during WWI when 
he took a leave of absence to devote full-time to army recruiting 
efforts. In 1922 he left Acadia for the Presidency of Colgate University 
in Hamilton, New York. "Finding Colgate University’s financial affairs 
in disorder he set out to turn its finances around. For the next 
seventeen years the school declared a surplus, in the meantime doubling 
its faculty, plant and assets. His football teams also won 
championships." After retiring from academia Cutten devoted his time to 
collecting early American silver and researching early American 
silversmiths, in which he was helped by his wife, Minnie. During the 
1930s and 1940s he assembled a fine private collection of silver, and 
also authored a number of studies on American silversmiths of various 
localities around New York, as well as Virginia, Georgia, and North 
Carolina.

Hardcover. 6"x10", 67 pages, 5 tipped-in black & white plates, marks. 
Covers faded at edges (as usual), otherwise clean and nice. [42498]  $65

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