What is a Cotterell O.P. number?

It's a reference number from the standard list of old pewterers. Dealers quote it to pin a touchmark to a named man. Ten titles on Sellingantiques use one. Dozens more skip the number and give the pewterer's working dates instead, such as 1673-1684 or 1763-1807.

How old is most antique pewter for sale?

The dealer-entered dates run from 1700 to 1930. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are level at 69 listings each. Before that, 21 entries are placed before 1700, and 42 fall in the 1900s, largely the Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau strand. Only 136 of 346 listings carry a clean year, so a century or a decade is often all the date field gives.

Does Tudric mean Liberty?

Tudric is the trade name on pewter retailed by Liberty & Co. It appears in 18 titles. Liberty itself shows up in 27, and Archibald Knox in nine. Several of these listings quote a model number, such as 0277 or 01145, and some combine the pewter with enamel or hardstone.

What does OEWS stand for on a tankard?

Old English Wine Standard, a pre-imperial capacity. It's noted on several tankards and flagons in this category. Capacity is the main descriptive hook across the drinking vessels generally, with pint in 37 titles and quart in 26.

Are Scottish and Irish pieces common?

They turn up throughout. Irish appears in 11 titles, Scottish in ten, with haystack measures and tappit hens among the named forms. Continental work sits alongside, German and Dutch in nine titles each, plus French, Swiss and Swedish pieces in the samples. Channel Islands pewter is the scarcest British origin in the archive: Jersey noggin measures and Guernsey lidded flagons appear only a handful of times.

Which small pewter items show up besides plates and mugs?

Snuff and tobacco boxes, tobacco jars with pressers, inkwells and inkstands, spoons including slip top and dog nose, ladles, napkin rings, food covers, chamber and bleeding bowls. One-offs appear now and then with no second example anywhere in the archive: a Welsh hat commode pot, a birthing bowl, a wine funnel, a dog pepperette, a food warmer.

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Pewter is the tin-based metal that served British and European households, taverns and churches with plates, measures and drinking vessels for centuries, and returned around 1900 as a material for designed art metalwork.