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Identifier: americanhomesga101913newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Old pewter from the collection of Mr. Nathaniel Spofford of Salem. The pewter measures to the right show the pint, half-pint and gill meas-ures. The pewter wine glasses are of a much later date, but of interest to collectors by reason of their rarity February, 1913 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 57
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Examples of pewter from the Caliga collection. Several of these pieces show the whorl pattern. objects to the extreme right of this illustration An old pewter tea-caddy is shown among the made in China two thousand years ago. There are speci-mens of Japanese pewter found in England that are posi-tively known to be eleven hundred years old. They are verymuch like specimens that are exhibited to-day in the Museumof Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. There is a very interesting old story connected with abit of rare Japanese pewter which had been a family heir-loom for generations. It came into the possession of thefirst ancestor in 1450, and is said to have had a historyeven at that date. In fact, its battered sides speak elo-quently of a past. The legend runs that it was in the pos-session of a French nobleman, who was compelled to fleefrom his own country for some misdemeanor and soughtrefuge in England, where he wooed and wTon an Englishmaiden. The precious bit of pewter remained wit

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