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Please do allow time for each pdf to download - the more 'pages' quoted the longer it will take.

Recommendation - try this website and take the tour! www.aewilliamspewter.com this is not a comment on products and prices - readers should satisfy themselves as to value. We have bought from them.

NEWS - We have been fortunate to be given permission to publish on this site a PDF of what might be the very best old pewter collection catalogue ever - the Neish catalogue. This shows the collection of Alex Neish which is now at the Smith Museum and Art Gallery of Stirling Scotland. We do not know of any of these catalogues on sale (either new or second hand) it was a limited edition which sold out quickly. Our thanks to Mrs Patricia Neish.

NEWS - we have also been fortunate to be given permission to publish on the site various research by the late Jan Gadd and articles and papers previously unrecorded on this website from among those papers - our thanks to Professor Ian Gadd.

If you want more detail on Old British Pewterers' Makers' Marks then some collectors still think and might tell you that the H H Cotterell book of 1929 - "Old Pewter: Its Makers and Marks" - will provide this. Indeed, it alone did so for many years. However, whereas that had information on 9000 British Pewterers, the UK Pewter Society data base now has some detail of 20,000 Pewterers, including some family trees, relationships, apprenticeships, sometimes examples of individuals work. It includes over 9000 examples of Pewterer's MARKS and wares.

This database alone offers real detail on many more Pewterers and thus the marks you see on your pewter left by the maker begin to have much more meaning.

See - www.pewtersociety.org

This website has no approval from or direct relationship with the UK Pewter Society, although various articles were written by Pewter Society members and the Acting Librarian has provided encouragement and material used.