Description:
Pewter dish with an incised rim, which is stamped "TS" for Thomas Shakle (w.1675-1709) and a crowned rose, "LONDON" and "IH." Thomas Shakle was a prominent manufacturer of pewter dishes and plates made for the export market. Pewter is a metal alloy composed primarily of tin with varying amounts of lead, copper, bismuth, and antimony. In colonial America, pewter was a staple of everyday living. When Edward Allyn (1659-1738) of Suffield, Massachusetts, wrote his last will and testament in 1699, he left his “Daughter Martha my least Brass Kettle two of my best pewter platters and one of the earthen ones.” In Deerfield, David Hoyt’s 1704 inventory listed three “putor plators” and one “putor pleat.”

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