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BOOK TITLE
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AUTHOR
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PUBLISHER INFORMATION
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REASON FOR READING
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MARKS AND MARKING OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES OF THE BRITISH ISLES
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CARL RICKETTS
With
John Douglas
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Self published by Carl Ricketts
ISBN 0-9528533-0-2
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The very many strange markings to be found on mugs and measures are explained and displayed in this book.
Invaluable.
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PEWTER OF GREAT BRITAIN – for pleasure and investment
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CHRISTOPHER PEAL
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ISBN 07071 0635 4 first published by John Gifford London c 1983
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A good readable history and explanation with useful detail for style dating of Mugs and Measures
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OLD PEWTER Its Makers and Marks
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Howard Herschel Cotterell
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First Printed in 1929 by B T Batford of London and from 1963 – 1969 (five printings) by Charles E Tuttle Company Inc of Rutland Vermont and Tokyo Japan
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Guide to 9000 Pewterer’s markings –succeeded in the early years of the 21st century by The UK Pewter Societies own (internet) data base.
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PEWTER DOWN THE AGES
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Howard Herschel Cotterell
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Hutchinson & Co (Publishers) Ltd London 1932
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Very readable introduction to Pewter
(larger type face)
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PEWTER OF THE CHANNEL ISLANDS
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Stanley C Woolmer and Charles H Arkwright
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John Bartholomew and Son Ltd Edinburgh 1973
ISBN O 85152 933-X
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Channel Islands Pewter
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Phaidon Guide to PEWTER
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Vanessa Brett
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Phaidon ISBN 0 7148 2172 1
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An interesting wide ranging guide with references to styles, making, history, American and European Pewter as well as British
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PEWTER WARES FROM SHEFFIELD
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Jack L Scott
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Antiquary Press Baltimore 1980 ISBN 0 – 937864-00-5
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Britannia Metal (Tin and Antimony not cast but from rolled sheet) from 1769 onwards.
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PEWTERERS OF LONDON 1600 – 1900
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Carl Ricketts
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Pewter Society 2001
ISBN 0-9538887-0-3
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the only such work of reference.
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COLLECTING ANTIQUE PEWTER What to Look For and What to Avoid
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The Pewter Collector’s Club of America
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2006 ISBN-13: 978-0-9787256-0-0 AND ISBN-10: 0-9787256-0-3
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USA emphasis regarding Collecting, Construction, and Fakes etc
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PEWTER OF THE WESTERN WORLD 1600-1850
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Peter R G Hornsby
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Pennsyl ISBN 0-916838-83-8
vania USA 1983
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many hundreds of excellent illustrations with descriptions
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SCOTTISH PEWTER-WARE AND PEWTERERS
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- L Ingleby Wood
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George A Morton Edinburgh (out of print).
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Most detailed, early work (early 1900s), on Scottish Pewter.
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THE RICHARD NEATE TOUCH PLATE and two others of unknown origin
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The Pewter Society 1996
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ISBN 0-9508658-2-6
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Fakes made for collectors etc in the 1920s and 1930s, dealing with the faker best known.
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PROVINCIAL PEWTERERS
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R F Homer and D W Hall
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Phillimore & Co. Ltd 1985 ISBN 0-85033-572-8
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Emphasis on the lower half of England
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BOOKS ON EUROPEAN PEWTER MARKS
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author Jan Gadd
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a BOOKLET PUBLISHED BY The Pewter Society in 1999
ISBN 0-9508658-8-5
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Help to find a book dealing with Pewter in another European country
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Old Domestic Base Metal Candlesticks
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Ronald E Michaelis
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Printed 1978-84-93-97
ISBN 0 902028 27 8 Antique Collectors Club Woodbridge Suffolk
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Candlesticks
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Pewter Candlesticks English Candlesticks of the Second Half of the 17th Century
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Jan Gadd
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The Pewter Society January 2004 ISBN 0-9538887-1-1
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Candlesticks
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The Candlestick Maker’s Bawle ‘A family Portrait’
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Kenneth G Gordon
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ISBN 0 7074 0243 3 1994 self published
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Candlesticks
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Five Centuries Of Base Metal Spoons
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by Ronald F Homer
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The Pewter Society 1999 ISBN 0 9508658 6 9
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Spoons
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There are a host of other books worth reading, many on special interests, dealing with for example – Irish Pewter - collections - amateur collecting – the History of Pewter and Pewter collecting – regional pewterers.
The list provided here is only intended as a very basic introduction for those interested in the subject to choose from, and fails to include many well respected author’s names and works.
For more reading see the Pewter Society and on this site also see the list of sources for their data base and A Very Brief History Of Pewter Making
