[4] Gandy met Dean Abner Fales Jr., a Harvard University alumnus who worked as registrar at Winterthur Museum and married him on March 4, 1956.

[5] In 1958, Martha Gandy Fales published her first book, a catalog with 143 illustrations of American Silver in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.

[3] Fales worked as an independent art historian and consultant to museums and historical societies, often in partnership with her husband.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased their large personal collection, particularly strong in eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century American jewelry, circa 2000.

[5] Fales' research papers on American jewelry and the Joseph Richardson family of silversmiths are held by the Winterther Library.