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Boardman New York Handle Porringer
Offered is an Old English or New York handle porringer with the mark of "TD&SB", Thomas D. and Sherman Boardman c 1810 - 1830. It is 4" in diameter. It is in excellent condition. This specific porringer has a provenance from a published museum exhibition. SOLD
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Offered is a Pennsylvania basin tab handle porringer with a solid Pennsylvania Kirk type tab handle. Very few of these porringers are found marked, although there are marked examples by Elisha Kirk of York, PA. This c 1785 porringer is 5 3/8" in diameter it is of solid cast construction and in very good condition. There is some pitting to the interior bowl, the exterior surface is excellent. The price is $825.00
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Offered is a scarce pint mug with the mark of "R. Gleason". Roswell Gleason, Dorchester, MA 1822 - 1871. This mug is 3 3/8" high with a TD of 3" and a BD of 3 1/2". With a scrolled handle this mug is in excellent condition. There are turning marks still visible on the interior sides of the mug body. Interestingly, Gleason also made a scarce tall pint beaker and the body of this mug and the body of the scarce pint beaker are from the same mold, just inverted to suit the form. See PCCA The Bulletin article Winter 2006, Vol 13, nr 6, page 37, illustrating and comparing the two forms. SOLD
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Very Scarce I. Trask Beaker # 2
I am pleased to offer another very scarce beaker by Israel Trask, Beverly, MA c 1813 - 1856. Marked on the inside bottom "I Trask". This beaker is in excellent to fine condition. It is 4" high with a TD of 3 5/8" and a BD of 2 1/4".
Note that this is not a typical New England 3" range beaker. This particular beaker is quite scarce in form and additionally served as the cup on Trask Chalices.
A mate for this beaker was previously sold here. There is also a very good provenance with this beaker. The price is $995.00
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Offered is a very nice quart mug with the "TD&SB" mark of brothers Thomas D. and Sherman Boardman, Hartford, CT. c 1810 - 1830. It is 5 7/8" tall, with a top diameter of 4" and a bottom diameter of 4 3/4". It has a very crisp mark on the exterior bottom, as can be seen.
This mug is in very good condition with no damage, save a few minor surface nicks from honest use. Used but not abused, in a very good natural state of preservation.
See PCCA Bulletin Vol 10, page 82 and fig. 26 for an interesting description of the raised fillet on Boardman mugs, dating this mug to the early years of the Boardman's manufacture. Also see Connecticut Pewter and Pewterers by Thomas, fig. 160 for the exact mug with an early Thomas D. Boardman eagle touch, c 1810.
The number of marked American mugs, particularly quart mugs, that surface and become available is minuscule compared to the number of plates, basins, porringers, tea and coffee pots, lamps, candleholders, unmarked beakers, etc. Even one American mug can be a proud addition to any growing collection. SOLD
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I am pleased to offer a scarce marked American Pewter Beaker by Samuel Hamlin with "Hamlin" marked to the outside rim lip. Jacobs #165. Samuel Hamlin Jr. of Providence RI circa 1801 - 1856. The beaker is 3 3/16" high with a top diameter of 3" and a bottom diameter of 2 1/4". This scarce marked American Beaker is in very good condition. There is some light pitting to the exterior bottom and to the interior bottom. This beaker is distinguished with a good, clear mark. These Hamlin beakers frequently had weak marks and many have been lost or overlooked with the mark worn away or damaged, making good examples very hard to find. See PCCA Bulletin Vol 8, pg 205, fig 30. SOLD
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Offered is a fine 5 1/8" beaker with the mark of Boardman & Hart N. York. c 1830 - 1850. This beaker is in fine conditon, clean inside and out with skimming marks remaining on the exterior bottom and a fine good, crisp mark. Many 5" Boardman beakers have been found with church service communion sets indicating they were used for church use as chalices as well as domestic use. Based on this beaker's condition it was either part of a communion service or was a cherished possession and taken extremely well care of. Thomas Boardman purchased his uncle Samuel Danforth's moulds from his estate in 1816 and early Boardman flagons, tall pots and beakers marked by the Boardmans are identical with those of Danforth and may be found with Danforth marks or Boardman marks. The price is $700.00
This beaker is one of a pair. The second identical Beaker is available to maintain the pair.
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Offered is a scarce size 5 5/8" diameter Pewter Basin marked Boardman & Hart in the well. Circa 1830 - 1850. This scarce size small basin is in fine condition, retaining it's skimming marks on the bottom. Basins of the 8" to 10" range are more commonly found than smaller than 8" and as they get smaller they get rarer. The price is $525.00
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Offered is an American Pewter Beaker of tumbler, unmarked but very similar to the output of Meriden Britannia Co of Meriden CT and other Connecticut makers. Circa 1830s onward. This beaker is 3" tall. This beaker is of spun sheet metal construction typical of latter beakers and is in fine condition. Hundreds of thousands of these beakers were made and sold in New England, with companies such as MB Co selling them by the dozen. Although may survived, surprisingly few survive in reasonable or acceptable collectable condition, let alone fine condition as they are soft and fragile. This beaker is a scarce survivor. The price is $70.00
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Offered is a marked American Beaker with the mark of "Yale Britannia". This is the mark of H. Yale & Co., Hiram and Charles Yale, Yalesville, CT. 1824 - 1835. This beaker is 3" high with a TD of 3" and a BD of 2 1/4". There is some light pitting to the interior bottom, the exterior surface is very good. No damage or repair. All marked American Beakers are scarce, but this particular maker and mark, not a common mark, are very hard to find. SOLD
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I am pleased to offer this fine handled American beaker with the mark of Morey and Ober, Boston, MA 1852 - 1854. This handsome beaker is 3 7/16" tall with a TD of 2 3/4" and a BD of 2 7/8". The condition is excellent. This beaker also has a very good provenance. The price is $495.00
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I am please to offer this very rare Roswell Gleason pint mug. Roswell Gleason, Dorchester, MA. c 1821 - 1871. This form of Gleason mug had previously been undocumented in American Pewter reference literature. This mug's first documentation and publishing can be found in the PCCA Bulletin, Winter 2006, page 35.
This fine and rare mug is in excellent condition. It is 4 3/8" high to the top of the rim, with a top diameter of 3 3/8" and a bottom diameter of 4". SOLD
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Offered is a chamberstick marked by Roswell Gleason, Dorchester, MA c 1821 - 1871. This chamberstick is cast and in excellent condition with no damage or repair and retaining it's original bobeche. Skimming marks are still evident on the bottom. It stands 4" high with a saucer diameter of 5 1/4".
Chambersticks are one of the most attractive and desirable early lighting devices. Gleason made many forms of lamps, also some candleholders and this chamberstick. He made some of the finest lighting devices in pewter of the period, but most are found unmarked and just attributable.
Of note, although two other Gleason chambersticks were recently offered, that was more of a coincidence than the rule. They are by no means commonly or regularly found, attesting to the fact that they sold almost immediately. SOLD
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Dunham Trivet
Offered is a Pewter Trivet or Tea Tile. Pewter circular frame on 3 pewter feet with a porcelain Staffordshire style insert. It is 6 3/8" in diameter and in very good condition. To be minutely accurate, the porcelain has some minor staining and minor crazing, but no breaks, chips, damage or repair. The back of the tile is marked "R. Dunham & sons Portland ME". Circa 1861 - 1882. Jacobs lists the Dunham "China Tea Tile, pewter cased and footed; unique in American Pewter rare". An exact example is shown in the exhibition catalog American Pewter on display at the Virginia Museum 1976, pg 37. Also illustrated in Pewter of the Western World by Hornsby, pg 365, #1270. SOLD
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Scarce American Pewter Sundial
I am pleased to offer a scarce pewter sundial with the initialed mark of "NM". The "NM" mark is thought to be a relative of Josiah Miller who also made and marked sundials, probably in Massachusetts. This is a similar example to one in the collection of Colonial Williamsburg with the identical "NM" mark and exact diameter of 3 1/16". Colonial Williamsburg's is documented in Pewter in Colonial Williamsburg by John Davis, #375. Laughlin also references the "NM" sundials. Colonial Williamsburg dates this sundial c 1740 - 1780.
At 3 1/16" diameter this scarce sundial is in as found condition. There is do damage or repair, and it has not been cleaned. Slight bending at the 3 mounting holes suggests, as pointed out in Davis's Pewter in Colonial Williamsburg, that this sundial was certainly mounted on a windowsill and functionally used and subsequently removed. SOLD
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Scarce Gill Size Basin
Offered is a scarce Gill size American Basin. It is 3 5/8" in diameter. These small basins are the smallest of all American Basins. This basin is in very good condition retaining an incised line on the interior bottom and skimming marks on the exterior bottom. Laughlin illustrates one in Vol 1 and attributes it to Samuel E. Hamlin of Providence RI circa 1825. Another reference indicates maker unknown, since it is unmarked. SOLD
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Offered is an 18th century Queen Anne pear shaped export teapot with the "JS" and quality "X" mark of Joseph Spachman, (Spackman), London c 1749 - 1764. Spackman was a known exporter of fine pewter to colonial America. This is a pre-Revolution teapot certainly used in the colonies. Actually this teapot is of the French and Indian war era. This teapot is 6" high with wooden handle and finial wafer. The low dome lid is of early design. It has acquired light overall patina. There is pitting to the interior and also the exterior bottom. The exterior surface of this teapot is original and very good, free of damage. The price is $2550.00
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18th Century marked Export Tankard
I am pleased to offer this very good English Export Quart Lidded Tankard with the mark of Robert Bush of Bristol, c 1765 - 1793. It is 6 7/8" high, 5" wide at the base. This tankard has a double dome lid, an open thumb piece and scroll handle. The condition is very good with no damage or repair. There is slight corrosion on the interior, but the mark struck to the inside bottom is clear.
Of the thousands of British pewterers there is a short list that made a significant part if not all of their output specifically for export to the colonies and Federal America, making their items as "made for the American market Americana" as historic American scenes blue Staffordshire. Robert Bush was one of these prolific exporters.
The price is $2550.00 SOLD
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18th Century Robert Bush Tulip Shaped Tankard
I am very pleased to offer the excellent English Export Quart Lidded tulip shaped tankard with the mark of Robert Bush of Bristol c 1765 - 1793. It has a double scroll handle with a fish-tail terminal, open thumb piece and high double dome lid. It is 7 3/8" high with a bottom dia of 4 3/8". This tankard is in excellent to fine condition inside and out with no damage or repair and a good mark struck to the interior bottom.
Of the thousands of British pewterers there is a short list that made a significant part if not all of their output specifically for export to the colonies and Federal America, making their items as "made for the American market Americana" as historic American scenes blue Staffordshire. Robert Bush was one of these prolific exporters. The two tankards offered most certainly were valued possessions of an American colonial home or business. SOLD
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Offered is a rare American miniature beaker. At only 1 1/2 inches tall this is the smallest of American beakers. This c 1830 beaker is unmarked as all that are found are, but it is thought to have been made by the Boardmans. These beakers probably had a communion use as they have been found in New England churches and also possibly apothecary and tavern use given the small measuring capabilities.
Even for it's diminutive size this beaker is of good heavy cast construction and in very good condition with do damage or repair. It has been used but not abused. SOLD
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Rare Marked English Export Chuch Cup
I am pleased to offer this rare English export pint mug with double handles referred to as a Church Cup with the line name touch of Robert Bush Jr. of Bristol and a quality X on the inside bottom. c 1796. It is 4 1/2" tall. This mug or Church Cup was probably exported to America around 1800 or before. This example is a very rare form whether it was American, of which there is one Boardman example illustrated in some references, or this rare Bush export example. One would hate to say it is "unique" because then another one would be out there, but it is very rare. Robert Bush Sr. and Jr. were prolific exporters to the Colonies and Federal America. This Church Cup is as I obtained it, but it had been cleaned. Condition wise, structurally it is in good condition with no apparent damage, but it does have pitting on the interior and on the outside bottom. SOLD
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I am pleased to offer this fine Maine handled beaker with the mark of Rufus Dunham. Dunham worked in Westbrook Maine c 1836 - 1861. This beaker is 3 1/2" high with a top dia of 3" and a bottom dia of 2 11/16". It has a footed base and scroll handle. This beaker is recorded and illustrated in PCCA Bulletin Vol 8, pg 210, fig 45. Dunham is also featured in an article on Maine pewterers with this beaker illustrated in PCCA Bulletin Vol 11, page 16. Also see Pewter in American Life, pg 45. New England pewterers made hundreds of thousands of beakers, mostly in the middle two quarters of the 19th century, yet few survive in even good condition let along near perfect condition and fewer yet are found marked. This beaker is in fine exceptional condition. Almost pristine. SOLD
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Good Marked 18th c Flat Rim Export Plate
Offered is a good 8 7/8" 18th century English Export plate of the prized flat rim variety and hammered booge. It is marked by Hale & Sons of Bristol England and made between 1778 and 1782 with good touchmarks on the back. This plate is in good condition with no damage or rapair and only utensil marks from honest use on the front surface. SOLD
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Unique American Beaker
Offered is possibly a unique American Pewter Beaker. In form, this would appear to be a typical New England, probably Connecticut unmarked 3 inch range flared top beaker by an unknown maker. What makes this beaker possibly unique and certainly early is it's remarkable weight. This cast beaker weighs in at 6.5 ounces. Compared to a marked Boardman beaker and known for their quality, c 1825 weighing 5.3 ounces, this beaker weighs 20% more. That is a lot of pewter on such a small object. For further comparison a marked Boardman beaker with a solid pewter handle weighs less at 6.3 ounces. Typically this beaker is 3 1/16" tall, with a TD of 3" and a BD of 2 1/4". The condition is excellent. You have to handle this beaker and compare it to others in your collection to appreciate it. You can immediately tell the significant difference when you handle it. SOLD
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I am pleased to offer this pewter Oil Lamp with the rare fat or lard oil burner. These lamps are quite scarce. Even finding published pictures and descriptions of these lamps proves elusive. A pair is published in Pewter of the Western World, 1600 - 1850 by Peter Hornsby, page 335, figure 1149 from the collection of Dr. Melvyn and Bette Wolf. Coincidentally, although the shaft is different the font is similar to the examples illustrated in Hornsby.
Katherine Ebert in Collecting American Pewter provides one of the few descriptions of them, devoting a short paragraph to it and describing lard oil, on a spin from the popular whale oil lamps, as "from ""prairie whales"" or hogs" and dates the peak of their use as 1840 - 1860. Also there is a similar description in an article on American Pewter Lamps in the PCCA Bulletin, Vol. 5, page 149, from 1967.
This lamp is by an unknown maker. It is 7" tall to the top of the wick burner, with a base dia. of 4". Condition wise, structurally it is very good with no real damage or breaks or repairs. Unfortunately it does have a variety of small dimples around the font area. SOLD
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Classic American Trask Beaker
Offered is an example of the extremely attractive and distinctive beaker form, although not marked, firmly attributed to the Trask Brothers, Israel or Oliver, of Beverly, MA probably 2nd quarter of the 19th century. This beaker is 3 1/2">Collecting American Pewter by Ebert, page 84 for a pair of these beakers paired with a Trask Communion flagon. These beakers have also been found with a cross hatching etching in lieu of the deep incised decorative lines, typical of the Beverly pewterers. SOLD
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Marked Samuel Danforth Tall Beaker
Offered is a fine tall beaker by Samuel Danforth of Hartford, CT., doing business from 1795 - 1816. With the Jacobs #107 and L#401 Eagle with Hartford touches and the quality "X" on this circa 1800 beaker. Footed with no other incising. It is 5 3/16" tall, with a TD of 3 3/8" and a BD of 2 7/8". This beaker is in very good to fine condition with no damage or repairs and has good strong marks.
See Connecticut Pewter and Pewterers by Thomas, a tall beaker by Samuel is illustrated in fig. 110. Interestingly, the base of this beaker being offered more closely resembles on example by Samuel's father Thomas II, illustrated in Thomas in fig. 72. SOLD
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I am pleased to offer this scarce form, pint mug, with the mark of Sellew & Co. Sellew & Co. of Cincinnati, OH 1832 - 1860. Sellew & Co. were prolific pewterers in the Midwest during their era and most of their forms are well documented. The only reference to a Sellew mug in the PCCA Bulletin is an identical pair illustrated in the Bulletin in Vol. 8, of September 1980 on page 66 and with no comment other than being "discovered" and the measurements provided.
This mug has a Double "C" handle and is 3 3/4" tall with a TD of 3 3/8" and a BD of 3 5/8". This mug is in very good condition with no damage or repair. SOLD
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18th c Export Plate by Robert Bush
Offered is an 18th century 9 1/8" English Export plate made by Robert Bush of Bristol England. c 1765 - 1793. It has the Robert Bush Stag and London mark and Bush & Co. hallmarks. This single reeded plate has the desirable hammered booge and is in good condition save for a couple of minute dimples and utensil marks, with no other damage or repair. Robert Bush was a prolific exporter of many forms of pewter to the Colonies and Federal America. The price is $95.00
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Scarce Morey & Ober Pint Beaker
I'm pleased to offer this scarce tall pint capacity beaker marked by Morey & Ober, doing business in Boston, MA from 1852 - 1854. This beaker is 4 5/8" tall with a TD of 3 3/8" and a BD of 3 3/16". It is in very good condition with only a few minute dimples and scratches from use. There is do damage or repairs and the metal is very good both inside and out. The classic Morey & Ober and Smith & Co. 3" range handled beaker is illustrated in many American pewter references both marked and unmarked. This tall beaker in shape and base is a mirror image of the popular smaller beaker only in a larger size. This tall beaker is very scarce and undocumented in pewter references. SOLD
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Pewter Ice Cream Molds
American Eagle with shield pewter ice cream mold. No makers mark but a stock or model number of 283 on the exterior. 4 3/4" tall. This scarce form of ice cream mold show signs of wear on the outside but perfect and very finely detailed on the interior. SOLD
American Flag pewter ice cream mold. 3 1/2" wide. Marked "E & Co. 1075. SOLD
Pinapple pewter ice cream mold. 3 3/4" tall. A scarcer form and finely detailed on the interior. Marked "E & Co. NY 253". SOLD
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Offered is an unmarked Calder beaker but firmly attributed to the shop of William Calder of Providence, RI, 1817 - 1856. See PCCA Bulletin Vol 8 for an excellent article on American Beakers and this beaker illustrated with mark. The convex shape is one of the most pleasing of 19th century American Beakers. It is 3" high, with a TD of 3" and a BD of 2 1/4". The condition is very good, with some pitting to the interior. SOLD
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