Excerpt from Pewter and the Amateur Collector The chief object of this book is to assist amateur collectors of old pewter plate to a reasonable knowl edge of the ware and to a direct understanding of their labours. Brevity, in a strict sense, has been deemed essential, as I especially wish to enlist the in terest of those who temperamentally are intolerant of study and yet earnest in their desire for results. Crit ical discernment and a fair conformity to facts have been striven for, but all who have written on the sub ...
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Excerpt from Pewter and the Amateur Collector The chief object of this book is to assist amateur collectors of old pewter plate to a reasonable knowl edge of the ware and to a direct understanding of their labours. Brevity, in a strict sense, has been deemed essential, as I especially wish to enlist the in terest of those who temperamentally are intolerant of study and yet earnest in their desire for results. Crit ical discernment and a fair conformity to facts have been striven for, but all who have written on the sub jcet of pewter probably recognise that it is the grave yard of congruent accuracy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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