Collecting as a Pastime

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1920 Excerpt: ... needed the cup which soothes. Taking all her good qualities into consideration we must pardon her desire to have her photo taken too. (Plate xiv) I appear to have touched on nearly all the Furniture objects I have found it convenient to photograph indoors, and as I am not stocktaking or compiling a catalogue we will pass on to the second course. Dwarf Chest of Drawers with Hepplewhite Mirror, 2 ft. 6 in. high, 2 ft. 3 m. wide. SECOND COURSE Old Pewter The First Pint--Progress--The Total--Congratulation--My Irish Friend--Sacks Full--Mistaken Identity--A Warm Time--Marks--Excise Stamping--First Act, 1826--Candlesticks--Church Pewter--The Basin--Faked Pewter--Plates and Dishes--Irish and Scotch--Tappit Hens--Whisky Stoups--Britannia Metal Enquiry--Cleaning--The Tinsmith--The ' Odamifino --The Pewter Pot--The Mystery Piece. There is an old axiom that a man is no good unless he has a hobby, but some of my friends say I have been no use since I took up the collection of old pewter. Many may wonder what induced a busy man to go to the trouble of getting together a collection like that shown in the photographs. It all arose through my rummaging in a broker's while waiting for a friend who was looking for old books, and finding a mug which was dirty and black with neglect but inscribed, Canteen, 70th Regiment. My curiosity was aroused, and I became the owner. On submitting this to a tinsmith it was pronounced to be old pewter, and from the time it was polished, fifteen years ago, I have been on the look out for more. The experience I soon gained taught me that the collectors of old pewter mainly belonged to that class with whom money is little object, and that what they strived to obtain were very old, unique pieces, communion vessels and historical specimen...