Martha Gandy Fales

Martha Lou Gandy Fales (October 31, 1930 – February 24, 2006) was an American art historian, museum curator, and author specializing in historic American silversmithing and jewelry. She worked as a curator and keeper of the silver at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library during the late 1950s and worked mostly as an independent historian and consultant after that. Her seminal book ''Jewelry in America'' (1995) received the Charles F. Montgomery Prize from the Decorative Arts Society. Provided by Wikipedia