Antique American Pewter - History Development Makers Marks / Scarce Book

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”This is the long-awaited, totally new addition to this classic of American pewter scholarship.  Volume III supplements the already large body of information contained in the earlier volumes and adds all the pertinent material on the subject which has come to light on pewter, its makers and their marks in the last thirty years since the first volume originally appeared.”
PEWTER IN AMERICA – ITS MAKERS & THEIR MARKS – VOLUME III
by Ledlie Irwin Laughlin, Barre Publishers, MA, 1971.
This comprehensive book covers by chapter:  Problems of the Colonial Pewterer; The Business of a Pewterer; The Marks on Pewter; Household Pewter; Ecclesiastical Pewter; The Pewterers of Massachusetts Bay; The Rhode Island Pewterers; The Pewterers of the Connecticut Valley; The Pewterers of New York City; Albany Pewterers; The Pewterers of Pennsylvania; The Pewterers of the South; Unidentified American Touches; The Britannia Period; Makers of the Britannia Period; Dethrowned Pewterers; Checklist of American Makers of Pewter, Britannia or Block Tin; Index of Symbols and Initials in the Early Touchmarks; Index of makers of Pewter Shown in Plates; Bibliography; and Index.    Superb black-and-white photographs with identifying captions supplement the rich narrative of this scholarly study.  “The illustrations, sharply reproduced and encompassing in content, form a major attraction of this book.  In thirty-nine plates are shown nearly two hundred illustrations devoted to touchmarks reproduced in approximately their actual size.  This book stands alone as a single volume.  When combined with the two previous books, one has an indispensable in-depth reference resource on antique American pewter.
Heavy 8.6” x 11” hardback with dust cover in very good condition.  276 pages.
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