A PEWTER LIDLESS HALF-PINT MEASURE

A PEWTER LIDLESS HALF-PINT MEASURE

SCOTTISH

pear-shaped body, and Aberdeen Type 2 handle (see P. Spencer Davies , Scottish Pewter’, p.218-19), made lidless with an undrilled and unslotted hinge lug, heavily cast and typically with no maker's mark, '½ PINT' capacity label struck with very large single dies to rim, together with several verification marks, including 'B of S' for Burgh of Stirling, and Lanark County Lower Ward, demonstrating that this type of lidless measures were not exclusively used in the North East of Scotland, a pair of incised lines to the neck and two pairs to the body, the simple strap handle with a plain curving terminal and strut lower attachment

10.4 fl.oz., 11.1cm high

Provenance

The Carl Ricketts Collection of Pewter.