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Old pewter: makers, marks, and a living record

Identify a mark against Cotterell 1929. Document a piece you own. Keep that record with the object. Makers live on Echoes. Owned objects live on Vault. Haven is where you add yours.

Not a shop. Not an appraisal service. Cotterell 1929 is a historical gazetteer. A Vayati relic is an object someone actually owns. Seeded from Cotterell, Old Pewter (1929). Public domain in the United States. We do not appraise, authenticate for sale, or buy and sell pewter.

Pewter plate, tankard, spoon, and an open marks gazetteer on a lamp-lit desk
Look at the metal first. The book is atmosphere, not a scan of Cotterell.

How to use this

  1. Identify Search a name, town, initials, or touch text. Gazetteer rows are reference. Reviewed makers open an Echo sheet.
  2. Compare On a Relic you own, Inspired-by can point at a maker Echo or a Cotterell mark. Guests see public Maker links only.
  3. Document Photograph your piece in Haven Cabinet. To add an object, open Haven Relics. Sign in if asked. You cannot publish from this page.

1929 harvest is reference only until a row shows Reviewed Echo. That chip opens the Echo sheet. Other names stay text.

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Ware types (vocabulary)

Labels for what you are looking at. Not a catalog of fake items.

Unlabeled pewter plate, porringer, lidded tankard, and spoon on dark linen
Plate, porringer, tankard, spoon — vocabulary, not inventory.

Real relic · Swiss / Vevey example · not from Cotterell

André Utin pewter plate, Vevey

Face of the André Utin pewter plate, Vevey (c. 1736–1771), museum photograph of the real object
Reverse of the Utin plate with touchmarks and owner initials CK Standing-lion ANDRE VTIN touch beside the crowned F quality mark on the reverse
Close crop of the standing-lion ANDRE VTIN touchmark Close crop of the crowned F quality mark in a laurel wreath

Swiss provincial pewter. Standing-lion touchmark, ANDRE VTIN (U as V), plus a crowned F quality mark and owner initials CK. Object photography — not a likeness of Utin. Cotterell 1929 covers England, Scotland, and Ireland only. This plate is living proof of the object pattern, not an entry invented from the British list.

Browse makers

Reviewed Echo sheets live on the makers index. Individual maker SEO lives on Echoes.

Document a piece you own

Phone photographing a pewter plate on a workshop table
Photograph the piece. The record lives with the object. Not a listing.

Photograph it. Write the mark and what you can stand behind. That creates a Relic record for your piece. It does not mint a Cotterell name into a fake owned object. On your Relic you can mark Inspired-by a reviewed maker. That is resemblance, not “this hand made it.”

Source: Howard Herschel Cotterell, Old Pewter: Its Makers and Marks (Batsford 1929), Chapter VI. Internet Archive identifier oldpewteritsmake0000cott. Public domain in the United States. OCR garbles some letters. Confirm on the touch, not on this list alone. Jacket and reprint wrapper are skipped. This list is not American pewter.

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We do not appraise, authenticate for sale, or buy and sell pewter. Not a marketplace. Cotterell names here are reference, not Keeper inventory. To add an object, open Haven Relics.

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