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A List of Titles dealing with American Pewter
Books:
Note: All books listed, with the
exception of Connecticut Pewter and Pewterers, by John Carl
Thomas, Pewter At Colonial Williamsburg, by John D. Davis,
Pewter in Pennsylvania German Churches by Donald M. Herr,
The Charles V. Swain Collection, and An American Pewter
Collection The Collection of Dr. Melvyn & Bette Wolf are out of print.
Copies of out of print books can usually be found in public
libraries, out-of-print book dealers, on and off line, and
occasionally on Internet auctions.
Davis,
John D.
Pewter At Colonial Williamsburg. Williamsburg,
VA: The Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation, 2003.
(Note:
While the number of American forms pictured is small, the
book is valuable to the collector because of the close relationship
of American and British pewter forms.)
Ebert, Katherine. Collecting American
Pewter. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973.
Fennimore,
Donald L.
The Knopf Collectors' Guide to American Antiques: Silver
& Pewter. New
York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
Herr, Donald
M.
Pewter in Pennsylvania German Churches. Birdsboro, PA: The Pennsylvania
German Society, 1995.
* This book may be ordered
directly from the author.
For the price and shipping costs, contact the author at his
email address: donmherr@aol.com
Hornsby,
Peter R.G.
Pewter of the Western World, 1600 - 1850. Exton, PA: Shiffer Publishing Ltd.,
1983 (Note:
While the number of American forms pictured is small, the
book is valuable to the collector because of the close relationship
of American and British pewter forms.)
Jacobs,
Carl.
Guide to American Pewter. New York: The McBride
Company, 1957.
Jacobs,
Celia.
American Pewter Marks & Makers, A Handbook for
Collectors, rev. 2d ed. Brattleboro, VT: Stephen Green Press,
1970.
Kauffman,
Henry J. The American Pewterer His Techniques and His
Products. Camden, New Jersey: Thomas Nelson Inc.,
1970.
Kerfoot, John
Barrett.
American Pewter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Company, 1924.
Laughlin,
Ledlie Irwin.
Pewter in America: Its Makers and Their Marks. 2
Volumes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940; Volume 3. Barre,
Massachusetts: Barre Publishers, 1971.
Montgomery,
Charles F.
A History of American Pewter. A Winterthur Book. New York:
Praeger, 1973.
Myers, Louis
G. Some
Notes on American Pewterers. New York: Country Life
Press, 1926.
Peal,
Christopher.
Pewter in Great Britain. London: John Gifford, Ltd.,
1983. (Note: This is
the best introductory book on British Pewter and the only book
containing a chapter on English Export Pewter to the United
States. It is important
to the American collector because so much American pewter was
derived from English forms and because so much English pewter is
found in this country.)
NEW! Pewter Collectors'
Club of America.
Collecting Antique Pewter What to Look For and What to
Avoid. PCCA, 2006. (Note: This is a long and much anticipated
new reference book many years in production on Antique Pewter.
Dedicated to the late John Carl Thomas, an author and dealer in
antique pewter, past president of the PCCA and one of the foremost
authorities on American pewter. With new material on collecting and
connoisseurship, construction and fabrication and most importantly
in-depth looks at fakes, forgeries and reproductions.) Click here
for information and how to order.
Pewter
Collectors' Club of America. Pewter in American
Life. Providence,
RI: Mowbray Company,
1984. (This book originally served as the catalog for the exhibit
celebrating the PCCA's Fiftieth Anniversary at The Museum of Our
National Heritage, Lexington, MA. Co-authored along with the
Museum's staff by William O. Blaney, John Carl Thomas, and other
PCCA committee members.)
Thomas, John
Carl. Connecticut Pewter and Pewterers. The
Connecticut Historical Society: Connecticut Printers,
1976.
Thomas, John Carl, Editor. American and British
Pewter. New
Jersey: The Main Street Press, 1976.
Private Collection Catalogs: Privately
printed hardcover books
"The Charles V. Swain
Collection." Privately
published, 2003. Two
hardcover books, one covering American pewter and the other covering
British pewter, sold as a unit in one slip cover. 286 total pages.
* This book may be ordered directly from
the author. For the
price and shipping costs, contact Mr. Donald Fennimore at his email
address: dfennimore@winterthur.org
"An American Pewter
Collection, The Collection of Dr. Melvyn & Bette Wolf." Privately published,
2006. Hardcover book
over 500 pages. * This book may be
ordered directly from the author. For the price and shipping
costs, contact the author at his email address: b.m.wolf@worldnet.att.net
Articles:
The Bulletin
of the Pewter Collectors' Club of America. Published semi-annually
since 1934.
Exhibition
Catalogues:
"American Pewter
in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston." Danbury, Connecticut: Scroll
Press, 1974.
"American Pewter,
Garvan and Other Collections at Yale." Yale University Art Gallery
Bulletin., Vol. 30, Number 3. Fall 1965.
"American
Pewter." John Meredith
Graham II. Brooklyn, New York: Brooklyn Museum.
1949.
"American
Pewter." Richmond
Virginia: Virginia Museum. 1976.
"American Pewter in
the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Melvyn D. Wolf." Flint, Michigan: Flint
Institute of Arts. 1973.
"An Exhibition of
Connecticut Pewter."
New Haven, Connecticut: The New Haven Colony Historical
Society. 1969.
"Early American
Pewter; John J. Evans, Jr., Collection." Allentown, Pennsylvania:
Allentown Art Museum. 1966.
"The Pewter in the
Collection of the New Canaan Historical Society." New Canaan, Connecticut: The
New Canaan Historical Society, 1976.
"Pewter in the
Collection of the New Hampshire Historical Society." New Hampshire. Fall,
1968.
"Pewter in America
1650 - 1900; an Exhibition."
Manchester, New Hampshire: The Currier Gallery of Art.
1968.
"Rhode Island Pewter,
1799 - 1865."
Providence, Rhode Island: The Rhode Island Historical
Society, 1959.
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