Last Updated 31/03/2010

This web site hopes to provide simple and introductory information to those who might be curious about the old pewter that they come across. As a new collector in 2004 I found it difficult to access ’simple’ information, that would guide me into a clearer understanding and enjoyment of pewter plates, mugs, measures and more.

The purpose of this web site is -

To nurture nascent interest in British Antique Pewter, and to leave the reader a little hungry for more, but with good clues where to find it....

The British Pewter Society offers a far more detailed and better informed approach to the subject. www.pewtersociety.org

This web site however has no connection with, or any validation from, the British Pewter Society, whatsoever, other than I am currently a member, and have asked one or two other members for their thoughts on the site as I have put it together.

Because of the international nature of this web-site we have decided to make all the articles easier for the world to be able to read, to this end we have converted them into Adobe PDF file format for easier viewing and printing, in case you can not open the files then please click the Adobe Logo

“New Articles Added Spring 2010”

This site now hosts over 600 A4 pages in articles and over 1400 illustrations.

I would like to thank, Alex Neish, Tsadik Kaplan, David W Hall, David A Hall, Sam Williams, A E Williams of Birmingham, Jamie Ferguson, Trevor Moore, Geoff Lock ‘pewtersellers.com’ and others for their help with articles and information added here.

Just click on the underlined PDF link in column 3 below to view the article.

Navigation Bar New Information Added Spring 2010 Pages of A4 (about 230) Articles James Yates Pewter to 1983 (in the 20th Century) 26 PDF  Evidence of a Gaskell Pewter Museum in 1941 2 PDF  Molds (Moulds) at A E Williams of Birmingham in October 2009 28 PDF  Interest in this Web Site by what is searched for and read. 3 PDF  Repro Pewter Catalogues of the later 20th Century 11 PDF  Outside Decorating with Pewter 1 PDF  Collecting Beggar’s Badges by Alex Neish 3 PDF Communion Tokens 6 PDF  Bellied measures by Geoff Lock (Adelaide South Aus) 10 PDF  Pilgrims Badges 4 PDF Pewter Medals 3 PDF Side Spouted Mugs and Measures 13 PDF Tobacco Jars and Snuff Boxes 11 PDF Fakes, Repros and Worries A Few Examples 9 PDF  A Few Clues 11 PDF  Interesting Pieces A Unique Passover Plate and Others by Tsadik Kaplan (USA) 15 PDF  Makers and Marks Punch marks recorded in 1981 and 2009 26 PDF  Joseph Austen, Haystacks and The Munster Iron Company - Irish Haystacks 4 PDF  Mugs and Measures Mugs and Pubs by Trevor Moore 6 PDF Regional Pewter Wigan Pewter 17 PDF The Boltons - Metalworkers of Wigan by Jamie Ferguson 19 PDF

Articles above without an author named are usually mine (and all responsibility for them) –corrections are welcomed - and will be included in not too far off Autumn update..

I do sell some pewter both privately and on eBay - but only in as much as my collection changes. My e-mail address is (johnstephenbank@btinternet.com). I try to reply to all e-mails, though it might take time. My knowledge is limited, but where I do not know the answer I hope to direct those with queries to where answers can be found.

Why collect Pewter?

It may be the look, the history, or the knowledge that people, maybe two or three hundred years ago, used this pewter on a daily basis that takes your interest.

A recent visit to the Auckland War Memorial and Museum revealed a collection of early UK Pewter in their APPLIED ARTS section.

For me, Pewter is an ’Applied Art’ - often made by extraordinarily skilled and creative craftsman for the ’yeomen’ of earlier times.

It was perhaps in its prime from 1550 to 1750 but also I enjoy very collectable pieces that can be found, dating from the 170 years following.

In improving my collection I do constantly review my pieces and I do sell some that no longer fit in with my collecting, and also sell some that I had to buy to get others that I especially wanted - and some that I was simply curious about and bought to look at them.

This site is not, (now), a trading site and is here solely to provide information for those who might begin to be interested.

Copyright Issues

PLEASE SEE Copyright Policy

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 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. Pictures/Photos should not be used in any other publication without copyright permission.


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