American Pewter

xxiii, 239 pp. With illustrations from photographs by the author of specimens in his own collection. CONTENTS: Collecting, Collectibles, and Collectibility; The What, When, and Where of Pewter; Pewter in America Before 1750; Pewter-Making in America 1750-1850; Largely Statistical; The Eight-Inch-Plate Men; The Transition Workers; The Coffee-Pot Era; The Making of American Pewter; The Pewter Lamp; And, Finally, Brethren--; Index.