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Published in Sheffield, England, in 1955, Frederick Bradbury’s (1864-1949) British and Irish Silver Assay Office Marks serves as a guide for assay office marks from England and Ireland, as well as for imported silver and gold plates from the mid-16th century to 1954.

Irish author Thomas Keightley, who was active during the 19th century, is considered a pioneer in the field of modern folklore studies. In his groundbreaking work, "The Fairy Mythology," he concludes that similar myths developed in different locations spontaneously, in the vein of the Brothers Grimm's approach, in which they compared the myths of one region to similar tales in other, unrelated regions. This upended the widely held belief that there was a common source to similar myths.