The straight-sided drum with two fairly broad fillets, and splayed footrim, the lid with front pierced denticulations, ram’s horn thumbpiece and hollow handle with cut-card decoration below hinge lug and with boot heel terminal, indistinct maker’s mark inside base, later inscribed ‘AD 1588’ to front centre of drum, height 17.5cm The touchmark appears to be of diamond shape and may refer to one of the John Fords of Wigan Provenance: Formerly C. A. Peal and Stanley Shemmell Collections Illustrated: C.A. Peal, ‘British Pewter & Britannia Metal for Pleasure & Investment’, p. 80, pl. 8. The author refers to the maker’s mark as ‘IF’ (PS18330) and P. Hornsby, ‘Pewter of the Western World’, p. 201, pl. 657.
The straight-sided drum with two fairly broad fillets, and splayed footrim, the lid with front pierced denticulations, ram’s horn thumbpiece and hollow handle with cut-card decoration below hinge lug and with boot heel terminal, indistinct maker’s mark inside base, later inscribed ‘AD 1588’ to front centre of drum, height 17.5cm The touchmark appears to be of diamond shape and may refer to one of the John Fords of Wigan Provenance: Formerly C. A. Peal and Stanley Shemmell Collections Illustrated: C.A. Peal, ‘British Pewter & Britannia Metal for Pleasure & Investment’, p. 80, pl. 8. The author refers to the maker’s mark as ‘IF’ (PS18330) and P. Hornsby, ‘Pewter of the Western World’, p. 201, pl. 657.
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