Pewter And the Amateur Collector
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II, p. 186, Welch.
57 PEWTER in a consistent, traditional way, and as a matter of some pride, impress their touch upon their ware and to this, especially during the earlier days, add the conventional hall-marks so called.
The early touches show that the art of die- cutting was well upheld by the colonial crafts- man, and the eagle is successfully essayed in all postures, the lettering is uniformly good, and the device of simple and dignified rendering. On much of the later pewter, however, the ...touch is more crude in character, and it finally deteriorated to mere commercial form, the name only, in many cases, being impressed upon the ware.
Mr. Bell, writing of the English ware, seems to find much of it unmarked, and of the ware marked only a very small proportion capable of being identified with the touches recorded at Pew- terers' Hall, London, and a not much larger pro- portion capable of being traced by its marks to the makers recorded in the list of Freeman at the same hall.
Of the English ware found in this country, however, it has^ been the writer's experience that a very large proportion bears either the touch of the maker or hall-marks supposedly personal to him, or both, and while in the selection of pewter 58 PLATE XXIV— JUG American: nineteenth century.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
II, p. 186, Welch.
57 PEWTER in a consistent, traditional way, and as a matter of some pride, impress their touch upon their ware and to this, especially during the earlier days, add the conventional hall-marks so called.
The early touches show that the art of die- cutting was well upheld by the colonial crafts- man, and the eagle is successfully essayed in all postures, the lettering is uniformly good, and the device of simple and dignified rendering. On much of the later pewter, however, the ...touch is more crude in character, and it finally deteriorated to mere commercial form, the name only, in many cases, being impressed upon the ware.
Mr. Bell, writing of the English ware, seems to find much of it unmarked, and of the ware marked only a very small proportion capable of being identified with the touches recorded at Pew- terers' Hall, London, and a not much larger pro- portion capable of being traced by its marks to the makers recorded in the list of Freeman at the same hall.
Of the English ware found in this country, however, it has^ been the writer's experience that a very large proportion bears either the touch of the maker or hall-marks supposedly personal to him, or both, and while in the selection of pewter 58 PLATE XXIV— JUG American: nineteenth century.
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