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Maastricht silver is a collective name for silver objects produced in Maastricht, Netherlands, mainly in the 17th and 18th centuries, when the town was a major centre for silversmithing. ==History==
In Maastricht, from the 16th century until the early 19th century a considerable number of silversmiths were active.〔About 300 names of Maastricht silversmiths are known during this period (→ Szénássy, p. 8)〕 They were united in the guild of Saint Eligius, which via the apprentice tradition controlled the transmission of tools and techniques from generation to generation. The silver-working guild checked each piece of silver before it was stamped with three silver hallmarks: The ''city hallmark'', a five-pointed star, indicated the quality of the silver guaranteed by the town of Maastricht. A second hallmark, the ''year letter'', indicated the bi-annual period it was made in. The third hallmark was the mark of the silversmith. The oldest known piece stamped with the Maastricht hallmark is the so-called ''arm of Saint Thomas'', a 15th-century silver reliquary in the shape of an arm, now in the Treasury of the Basilica of Saint Servatius in Maastricht.〔In the 1970s, while being restored the reliquary was found to have five 5-pointed stars (→ Szénássy, p. 15)〕 Unfortunately, very little is left from this period. After the Siege of Maastricht (1579) the Spanish troops ransacked the city for three days and took anything made of gold or silver.〔In ''El asalto de Mastrique por el principe Parma'' (1614), the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega has his characters bragging about the looting: "I was in a house full of treasures." "I was in six houses full of silver". (→ Szénássy, p. 16)〕 Some silver chalices and monstrances from the 17th century have survived. With the arrival of the French revolutionary troops in 1794, the medieval trade system was discarded of and the guild of Saint Eligius dissolved.
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