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LINKS
This web site has no financial connection whatsoever with any sites listed below. A link is given because of the range and quality shown. Any other web sites of similar quality will be linked here on request, in similar circumstances and if the link is reciprocated, or if made known to this site.
A Good site to view Antique Pewter
www.pewtersellers.com
We offer no opinion on values but understand this to be a successful web site.
A CRAFTSMAN APPROACH TO STONEMASONRY
AND THE SKILFUL MAKING OF FIREPLACES, DOORWAYS, WINDOWS IN YORKSHIRE GRITSTONE CAN BE FOUND AT
www.stonemason.co.uk
We offer no opinion on values but know this to be highly skilled workmanship.
Pewter of The Western World, 1650-1800 by Peter R G Hornsby.
I would like to thank Jennifer M Hornsby for allowing me to use her copyright to the text and illustrations in this renowned Pewter book from time to time in articles on this web site. As a thank you to her, I mention here a children’s book she has written ‘The Bogle Wogles’ based on stories told to their children by her husband Peter.
Further information can be found at - www.tudriccottagegallery.com
and at http://www.originalwriting.ie/_product_35479/The_Bogle_Wogles
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Thanks also to the following for copyright usage permission and hence links to their websites -
National Maritime Museum Greenwich - www.nmm.ac.uk
Auckland War Memorial and Museum New Zealand – www.aucklandmuseum.com
Apollo Magazine London – www.apollo-magazine.com
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Link to Early English Carvings, Oak Furniture and Related items
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www.shawedwardsantiques.co.uk
Shaw Edwards Antiques offers a range of Early English Oak Furniture, Carvings and Related items. The focus of the stock covers late Medieval and early Renaissance examples of carved fragments sometimes as early as the 13th Century together with furniture as late as the 17th Century.
Shaw has been involved with antiques since the mid 1960s and has studied the art of the late Medieval and early Renaissance periods in some considerable depth. He is a member of the British Antique Dealers Association, BADA, the Association of Art and Antiques Dealers, LAPADA, and the International Confederation of Art and Antiques Dealers Associations, CINOA. Shaw exhibits at the BADA Fair in London, the Summer and Winter Fairs at Olympia, the LAPADA Fair at Berkeley Square in London.
Link to –
www.pewtergiftware.com
A E Williams, 6 Well Lane ♦ Digbeth ♦ Birmingham B5 5TE
T: +44(0)121 643 4756 ♦ F: +44(0)121 643 2977 ♦ E: sales@pewtergiftware.com
To see pewter being made click on this link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVVUGJaK8Bg
Learn exactly what goes in to Pewtersmithing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVQmjnKLwc4
For their catalogue of Craftsman Made Today’s Pewter – see the PDF FILE - PEWTER LIVE CATALOGUE
Added Autumn 2009. Please remember that this web site does not sell any pewter, does not act as agent, does not take any commission whatsoever on whatever you might purchase. A purchase by you a web site reader is a private matter between you and A E Williams. However if we did not admire the work done this information would not be offered here. We can make no comment nor offer any advice (due to lack of experience) as to the prices of newly cast pieces. This link is here because we are grateful for their co-operation, appreciative of their allowing use of the copyright in their photographs and information, and enthusiastic at seeing the process, quality and product - and in appreciating the history represented therein.
THE PATINA QUESTION AND VALUE – a frequently asked question 
A SIMPLE INDEX TO THIS WEB SITE – index to web site 
A Disclaimer
Some of my experiments and attempts at renovation have involved personal risk. I tell it as I found it. This is definitely not to encourage others to do as I did. I would advise others to take good advice on matters of electricity, electrolysis, and any products or methods I have used. I do not accept any responsibility for what you might attempt and urge you not to proceed without understanding, guidance or sound information from qualified people..
Writers for this web site generally have no objection to people downloading their pictures for personal use or research and study. They do expect however acknowledgement at least, and preferably consultation if their pictures were to be used in any other publications.
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