When the curator and professor of American art Charles F. Montgomery—pewter expert and author of the influential American Furniture: The Federal Period—died in February 1978 before this tribute to him and his wife could be published, the book became a unique and fitting memorial. In addition to his brilliant, concise “Some Remarks on the Practice and Science of Connoisseurship,” first published in 1961, contents include an affectionate foreword by then-director of the Yale University Art Gallery, Alan Shestack; a poem by Constance Clement; and detailed chronologies and bibliographies for both Charles and Florence Montgomery, a curator of textiles at the Winterthur Museum, Delaware.