Potter & Mellen Book Collection This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit February 02, 2022 Ingalls Library and Museum Archives 11150 East Blvd. Cleveland, OH, 44106 216-707-2492 [email protected] Potter & Mellen Book Collection Table of Contents Summary Information .................................................................................................................................3 Scope and Contents note...............................................................................................................................4 Administrative Information .........................................................................................................................4 Controlled Access Headings..........................................................................................................................4 Collection Inventory......................................................................................................................................5 - Page 2 - Potter & Mellen Book Collection Summary Information Repository Ingalls Library and Museum Archives Title Potter & Mellen Book Collection Date [inclusive] 1902-1998 Extent 1.33 Cubic feet [4 boxes and one oversized book] Language English - Page 3 - Potter & Mellen Book Collection Scope and Contents note 25 books and 1 VHS tape removed from the business records of the Potter and Mellen Company, a prominent Cleveland jewelry store founded by designer Horace Potter. The collection was donated by Ellen Stirn Mavec who purchased the company in 1989. Administrative Information Publication Information Ingalls Library and Museum Archives Conditions Governing Access note Open to the public. For more information or to access this collection contact archives staff at [email protected]. Controlled Access Headings Subject(s) • Potter and Mellen - Page 4 - Potter & Mellen Book Collection Collection Inventory Box Folder 1 1 Lalaounis, Ilias. Metamorphoses. Greece: Ilias Lalaounis, 1984 1 2 Nierendorf, Karl. Urformen der kunst. Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth 1 3 Catalog of interior and exterior decorative ornament: catalog 8. Cleveland: Fischer and Jirouch Co. 1 4 Hornung, Clarence P. Lettering from A to Z. Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing, 1946. 1 5 Strong, C.J. Strongs Book of Designs. Detroit: Detroit Schol of Lettering, 1910 2 1 Sterling Flatware Pattern Index. Radnor: Chilton Publishing, 1970 2 2 Collection de cachets et cylindres orientaux. Paris: Hotel Drouot, 1959 2 3 East Meets West: An Era of Enchantment. San Francisco: Robyn Turner Gallery, 1998 2 4 Stevens, Thomas Wood. Lettering. New York: The Prang Co. 1916 2 5 Bergling, J.M. Art Monograms and Lettering. Chicago: J.M. Bergling, 1927 - Page 5 - Potter & Mellen Book Collection 2 6 Bergling, J.M. Art Monograms and Lettering. Chicago: V.C. Bergling, 1946 2 7 Speltz, Alexander. Styles of Ornament. Berlin: Bruno Hessling, 1906 3 1 Guebelin, Eduard. Precious Stones. Berne: Hallwag Ltd. 3 2 List of Names Used in Epochs of Chinese & Japanese Art. New York: Ernest L. Fenollosa, 1907 (2 copies) 3 3 The Jewelers' Dictionary. New York: The Jewelers' Circular - Keystone, 1945 3 4 Metal and Metal Products: Catalog 22. Providence: A.T. Wall Co. 3 5 Desautels, Paul. Gems in the Smithsonian Institution. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1965 3 6 Catalogue of the collection of spoons made by Mrs. S.P. Aver 1867-1890. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1908. 3 7 Cabinet Hardware and Period Accessories: catalog 53. Boston: Period Furniture Hardware Co., 1952 3 8 Rathbone, R.L.B. Unit Jewellery: a handbook in six parts, part IV. London Constable & Co., Ltd. 3 9 Engraving. Newburyport: Towle Mfg. Co. - Page 6 - Potter & Mellen Book Collection 3 10 British Silver Hallmarks. London: Maurice Freeman 3 11 Arts and Crafts at Campden. London: Guild of Handicraft, 1902 3 12 Lapponia: The Art: Modern Jewelry Art since 1960. (video) Helsinki: Lapponia Jewelry Oy, 1994. Box 5 Beautiful Tables: how to coordinate sterling silver with china and glass. Cleveland: Potter and Mellen, Inc., 1955 (oversized) 4 Wilson, H. Silverwork and Jewelry: A Text-Book for Students and Workers in Metal. The Arts and Crafts Series of Technical handbooks. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903. 4 Battke, Heinz. Ringe aus vier Jahrtausenden. Insel-Bucherei nr. 780. Frankfurt am Main, Insel-Verlag, 1963. 4 Smith, F.R. Small Jewellery. Pitman's Craft for All Series. New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation, n.d. 4 Schmuck und Edelmetall-Arbeiten. Ein Auswahl Moderner Werke Hervorragender Deutscher, Wie Osterreichischer, Englischer und Franzosischer Kunstler. Darmstadt: Verlas-Anstalt Alexanfer Koch n.d. 4 Voelker-Schmuck illustrations, n.d. 5 Potter and Mellen, Inc. Beautiful Tables: How to Coordinate Sterling Silver with China and Glass (oversized) 1955 - Page 7 - Potter & Mellen Book Collection 5 Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York. Enamels [exhibition catalog] 1959 5 Schumann, Walter. Gemstones of the World 1979 5 Hall, Cally. Eyewitness Handbooks: Gemstones 1994 5 Evans, Joan. A History of Jewellery, 1100-1870 1970 5 Kunz, George Frederick. Rings for the Finger 1917 5 Spier, Jeffrey. Ancient Gems and Finger Rings. Catalog of the Collections of the J Paul Getty Museum, California 1992 5 Mastia, Marie-Louise d'Otrange. The Smithsonian Library of Antiques. Jewelry 1981 5 Harlow, George E. The Naure of Diamonds 1998 5 Bennett, David and Daniela Mascetti. Understanding Jewellery 1989 5 Proddow, Penny and Marion Fasel. Diamonds: A Century of Spectacular Jewels 1996 - Page 8 -