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Description: | Incomplete post medieval pewter tankard with pewterers mark, 18th -19th century. The tankard is largely complete, though the handle has become separated from the main vessel. The vessel is damaged, there is a hole where the top of the handle has been torn away from it and the apeture has been compressed. The Vessel is a slightly tapering cylinder with cast decorative bands that run around the circumference. There is a rim for the base, then moving up the vessel, there is a band 9.28mm wide, then another thin ring, then another band 17.65mm wide with a ring before the rest of the tankard vessel continues to the rim uninterrupted.The vessel is decorated with an engraved 3, created using a sawtooth stamp. on the front of the tankard there is an engraved name A [-] Colt in a curled script. There is a pewterer's touch mark just beneath the rim of the vessel, a shield containing three swords within a pentagon. The handle has design that resembles a worn H at the top where there is a flat thumb rest. The whole vessel is a dark oily golden green in colour, possibly indicating that it is a tin pewter. There do not appear to be any marking on the inside of the vessel.Diameter at base: 78.83mm, Height: 86.57mm, Width of compressed apeture: 29.21mm, Length of Handle: 54.24mm, Width of handle top: 16.8mm, Width of Handle bottom, 7.37mm, Total weight 252g, Weight of Vessel: 217g, Weight of Handle 35g
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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