Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A PEWTER IMPERIAL HALF-PINT LIDLESS MEASURE

ABERDEEN, C.1830

typically no maker's mark, marked under the base ‘IMPERIAL, HALF PINT, DG’, indicating verification was struck with the authority of the local Dean of Guild, form made without a lid and most have hinge lugs like this one known as blind or undrilled, a solid strap handle and plain terminal, plain body with 3 pairs of incised lines, one pair low, one pair high and one pair at the rim

10.4 fl. oz., 11.5cm high

Provenance

The Carl Ricketts Collection of Pewter.

Catalogue Note

The Dean of Guild was an officer of the local authority responsible for weights & measures testing and overseeing fair trading.