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COLLECTING AS A PASTIME
Bronze Statuette for Gas. Circa 1850.
Plate I.
COLLECTING AS A
PASTIME
BY
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 hopethat it may arrest the attention and stimulate theinterest of many other readers.
The Author.
CONTENTS
| 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. |