Hardcover, No Dust Jacker
Old pewter is becoming daily of greater interest to the householder, since the fancy for using this attractive ware in country houses has become so widespread. Old plates, platters and chargers that have not seen the light for scores of years, or that have been subjected to indignities, such as covering the flour barrel or catching rain-water leaking into the garret, are not brought forth and treated with pride and consideration. In this book the details of manufacture, the style of decoration, the correct weight of the different pieces of ware are all given. More than a hundred pieces of old ware are illustrated, most of them here reproduced for the first time.