PEWTER

A pair of 18th-century pewter sugar casters, engraved with the cypher of the Earl of Lonsdale, from the servants' quarters of Lowther Castle

A large pewter serving dish by George Lowes of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 18th century

A large pewter serving dish by Robert Sadler of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 18th century

A pewter half-pint mug with the "hall-marks" of William Bush of Bristol, who was apprenticed to his father in 1792

A large pewter serving dish, Continental, marked "PLACKTIN (Englishe Zinn)", circa 1800

An early 18th-century lidded quart tankard by William Eddon, (Cotterell No. 1503)

An early 18th-century lidded quart tankard by an unidentified maker, (Cotterell No. 6107), the thumbpiece a replacement, which I made in July, 1965, having bought the tankard from a Mrs Blair, of Roadhead, where family tradition said that it had once been part of the spoils on one of that reiving family's raids. The front edge of the lid is struck with ownership initials "MB". The mould from which the handle was made was used by pewterers in Penrith including John Grave and Abraham Crowley - see my article "The Pewterers of Penrith", CWAAS Transactions, Vol LXXXV, 1985.  An unlidded mug by the same maker is illustrated in Cotterell, p 141, pl f.  

An 18th-century small mug, by William Hogg of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

An 18th-century quart mug by Robert Sadler of Newcastle-upon Tyne, his mark struck three times. A quart in the Guildhall, Carlisle, is similarly struck.

A rare 18th-century pewter candlestick by Robert Sadler, struck with his other initialled mark "RS" in blackletter upper case.  (Cotterell No. 4088)

A late 18th-century quart tankard by Bush and Perkins, (Cotterell No. 740)

Two late 18th-century pewter tobacco jars, 105 and 175mm high