The Age of Oak - 9th April 2025
Lot 360
A PEWTER LIDLESS HALF-PINT MEASURE
Estimate £30 - £50 | Hammer £38
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Description
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.