OLD PEWTER ITS MAKERS AND MARKS IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND
Written by Howard Herschel Cotterell
Published by Charles E. Tuttle Company
in 1963
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OLD PEWTER ITS MAKERS AND MARKS IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND
Written by Howard Herschel Cotterell.
Stock no. 1329828
1969.
Hardback.
Large format.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Large format. Silver covers with blue titles. xvii + first list of subscribers + 432 pages. 6 large folding b/w plates. I. Short Historical Introduction; II. The History of Pewter-Marking as Toldin the Records; III. The Old Pewterers and Their Touchplates; Secondary Marks, Collectors' Difficuties, Pewterers' Tokens and Trade-Cards,Etc., Etc.; V. Illustrations of Examples of Pewter-War; VI. Alphabetical List of Pewterers, With Illustrations of Their Marks, Where Known; VII. Alphabetical List of Those Marks Which,with the Device, Bear Only the Initials of Their Owners' Name; VIII. Illustrations of Those Marks Which Must Be Designated as "Obscure," for Want of Any Indication as to Their Ownership; IX. Index to Devices in Marks Illustrated in Chapters VI, VII, and VIII; X. Index to Hall Marks in Chapters VI, VII, and VIII. Spine bumped. Light foxing to prelims. Light brown stain to inner margins of a couple of pages (198 & 199), else contents clean. Dustwrapper is price-cut and slightly worn to top and tail of spine.
Front cover
Contents
- DEDICATION
- PREFACE
- ARRANGEMENT OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS
- EXPLANATORY NOTE
- CHAPTER
- I. SHORT HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
- II. THE HISTORY OF PEWTER-MARKING AS TOLD IN THEIR RECORDS
- III. THE OLD PEWTERERS AND THEIR TOUCH PLATES
- IV. SECONDARY MARKS, COLLECTORS' DIFFICULTIES, PEWTERERS' TOKENS AND TRADE CARDS, ETC.
- V. ILLUSTRATIONS OF EXAMPLES OF PEWTER-WARE
- VI. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF PEWTERERS, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS OF THEIR MARKETS, WHERE KNOWN
- VII. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THOSE MARKS WHICH, WITH THE DEVICE, BEAR ONLY THE INITIALS OF THEIR OWNERS' NAMES
- VIII. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THOSE MARKS WHICH MUST BE DESIGNATED AS "OBSCURE" FOR WANT OF ANY INDICATION AS TO THEIR OWNERSHIP
- IX. INDEX TO DEVICES IN MARKS ILLUSTRATED IN CHAPTERS VI, VII AND VIII
- X. INDEX TO HALL MARKS IN CHAPTERS, VI, VII AND VIII
- HALL MARKS WITHOUT OWNERS INITIALS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- GENERAL INDEX
- BLANK PAGES FOR NOTES
- ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE LONDON AND EDINBURGH TOUCH-PLATES