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Title: Collecting as a Pastime

Author: Charles Rowed

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COLLECTING AS A PASTIME

Bronze Statuette for Gas. Circa 1850.

Plate I.

COLLECTING AS A
PASTIME

CHARLES ROWED

With 68 Half-tone Illustrations

CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
1920

TO THE MEMORY
OF
C. H. R.

RAISON D’ÊTRE

This book is written, and the illustrations prepared, mainly to inspire, inform and amuse Amateur Collectors. In this I trust it will be successful, but I further hope that it may arrest the attention and stimulate the interest of many other readers.

The Author.

PAGE
Raison d’Être	vii
Reflections	1
FIRST COURSE
Grandfather Clocks and Old Furniture	12
SECOND COURSE
Old Pewter—the Pewter Pot and the Mystery Piece	35
THIRD COURSE
Old Brass and Copper	77
FOURTH COURSE
Old Mortars	82
FIFTH COURSE
Old Pottery	86
SIXTH COURSE
Old China	122
SEVENTH COURSE
Old Horse Amulets	140
FINAL COURSE
Sheffield Plate and Old Silver	144

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1.	Bronze Statuette for Gas (circa 1850)	Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
2.	“The Trusty Servant” Print (circa 1830)	14
3.	Grandfather Clocks: John Burgess de Wigan; Philip Smith, Barton; Phillips, Ludlow	15
4.	Grandfather Clocks: Pennington, Ince; T. Helm, Ormskirk; Bold, Warrington	18
5.	Grandfather Clocks: Brown, Liverpool; Monks, Prescott; No Name, Enamelled Dial	19
6.	Oak Dresser, Welsh, 17th Century, with Pewter	24
7.	Elm Dresser, Welsh, Early 17th Century, with Pewter	25
8.	Ecclesiastical Chest (circa 1600)	26
	Oak Dower Chest, dated 1702	26
9.	Oak Spindle Back Chairs, Early 19th Century	27
	Birch Chairs, Early 19th Century	27
10.	Chinese Chippendale Chair, Late 18th Century	28
	Oak Lancashire Chairs (Faked)	28
11.	Cromwellian Gate-leg Table (Oak); Knife-box With Shell Inlay; Salt-box Dated 1659; Bowl, by Copeland	29
	Gate-leg Table, made of “Foudroyant” Oak	29
12.	Bureau with Bookcase (Mahogany)	30
13.	Mahogany Bureau, 18th Century	31
	Chest of Drawers with Bureau Fitment	31
14.	Birch, Veneered Rosewood, Folding Table; Tea Caddy	32
	Mahogany Table, Drop Ends	32
15.	Mahogany Chest of Drawers	33
	Dishes—Davenport, Leeds, Copeland; Bowls—Bow, Chelsea, Plymouth, Bow	33
16.	Dwarf Chest of Drawers with Heppelwhite Mirror	34
17.	Oak Chest with Oak Cupboard, enclosing Pewter	35
18.	Mahogany Corner-Cupboard with Pewter	42
19.	Old Pewter Group	43
20.	Old Pewter Group	46
21.	Old Pewter Group	47
22.	Pewter Snuff Boxes	64
23.	Pewter Pots—Inscribed	65
24.	Pewter Pots and Lidded Tankards	70
25.	Pewter “Alms-Dish”—Faked (Front)	71
	Pewter “Alms-Dish”—Faked (Back)	71
26.	The “Odamifino”	74
	The Converted Bedpan	74
27.	The Mystery Piece	75
28.	Old Brass Group	78
29.	Old Copper Group	79
30.	Old Mortars (Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)	84
31.	Old Mortars (Nos. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)	85
32.	Old Pottery Group	88
33.	Old Pottery Group	89
34.	Old Pottery Group	92
35.	Old Pottery Group	93
36.	Pictorial Pottery	98
37.	Willow Pattern	99
38.	China Cabinet, Mahogany, Late 18th Century	122
39.	Old China Group	123
40.	Old China Group	128
41.	Old China Group	129
42.	Old China Group	136
43.	Old Horse Amulets, Group 1	137
44.	Old Horse Amulets, Group 2	142
45.	Sheffield Plate and Old Silver	143

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