![]() ![]() Please send your query to our service is free, the database we use to answer your query costs us a considerable amount of money a year to run. Verification and capacity marks, often including a crown over the initials of a king or queen, or the symbol of a local authority. Please note we may use your enquiry without any personal details in our recent enquiries section on the website. please make sure they are focused as it will help identify any marks.which part of the world you come from, because that may help to identify the likely provenance.a narrative description of the item with dimensions, etc.If you need a valuation please contact your local auction house. During his short life of only 33 years, Kirk made an indelible mark on the pewter industry of his home state. Please note the Society does not offer a commercial valuation service. Please check our recent enquiries section as a similar item may be on there. The word 'HALLMARK' derives from the fact that, since the 16th century, precious metals were sent to the London Goldsmiths Hall for testing. Albin Mller, Peter Behrens, Joseph Maria Olbrich. There is also a book on 20th Century Pewter, 20th Century Pewter: Art Nouveau to Modernism by Paul Carter Robinson published by the Antique Collectors Club. A silver or gold object that is to be sold commercially is, in most countries, stamped with one or more hallmarks indicating the purity of the metal and the mark of the manufacturer or silversmith. Manufacturers of trophies, awards, medals and gifts made of metal and precious metal. We may be able to help with Art Nouveau pewter, Liberty/Tudric, Kaiserzinn, etc., though you will probably be better talking with an Art Nouveau specialist. We are unlikely to be able to help with pewter that is later than 1910. Our main expertise is in pewter over 100 years old. We are unlikely to be able to help with pewter from elsewhere in the world. Compare that with the 2,850 marks and 6,150 pewterers in what had previously been the most comprehensive source available, Old Pewter by H H Cotterell and you will realise the extent of knowledge being developed. Our main expertise is in British and Irish pewter, but in some cases we can also help with antique pewter from continental Europe or North America. It currently has around 12,000 marks and 19,442 pewterers. In any case, many marks are as yet unrecorded or unidentified. We don’t know why, but the items are normally of perfectly good quality and so there’s no reason to be suspicious of them.The Society is willing to help members of the public identify individual items of pewter if we can. Information supplied is for your personal information only and any information given cannot be used in connection with the sale or offer for sale of any item about which the information is solicited.Īlthough we will try, we cannot guarantee to identify marks because sometimes this could take hours of research. In these cases the marks don’t belong to a pewterer at all but merely to a retailer. In the 19th and 20th centuries other businesses such as ironmongers started buying wholesale from pewterers and re-selling under their own name. Indeed, sometimes you will find the marks of two different pewterers – the one who made it and the one who sold it. Thus often we cannot be sure whether the pewterer whose marks appear on a piece actually made it or merely sold it. On the back there is a mark with the initials, T.C. The handle has impressed marks on both sides. This has a great'Old English' style handle. Whilst pewterers sold wares they had made themselves, they would also sometimes buy stock wholesale from other pewterers to add to the range of wares they could offer for sale. 19th Century This auction is for a Antique Pewter Porringer. See our Help with identification section and recent enquires in that section Who else used marks? This service is free, but it is not available to dealers nor to individuals if the sole purpose of the identification is to facilitate the sale of the item. If you only have a couple of pieces, the Society is willing to identify the marks for you if we can. ![]() Join the society and carry the database around with you via your mobile phone or tablet when visiting auctions, antiques fairs and antique shops. It supersedes all printed publications on the subject, is being constantly updated and it is only available to members. The Pewter Society database of British & Irish makers and their marks is the most comprehensive source of information. There was no central register of pewterers or their marks, so identifying the pewterers and the marks they used is only possible as a result of decades of research, a process that is still ongoing. ![]()
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