OLD PEWTER ITS MAKERS AND MARKS IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND
Published by Charles E. Tuttle Company. 1969
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.
Stock no. 1329828
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