The Winterthur Library
The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and
Printed Ephemera
Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur
Museum
5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur,
Delaware 19735
Telephone: 302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883
OVERVIEW OF
THE COLLECTION
Creator: Bowen, Richard LeBaron,
1919-
Title: Pewter research papers
Dates: circa 1950-circa 2010
Call No.: Col. 950
Acc. No.: 15x99
Quantity: 36 boxes
Location: 13 H 9, I 1-6
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENT
Richard LeBaron Bowen, Jr. (“Dick”) collected and
wrote about pewter. He was born in
Providence, Rhode Island, in 1919, to Marjorie Champlin Bowen and Richard
LeBaron Bowen (1878-1969). He graduated from Princeton University in 1941with a
bachelor’s degree in chemistry. In 1943,
Bowen earned a master’s degree in chemical engineering from Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT). In the
same year, Bowen married Phyllis Seawall Brown, and the couple would have three
children together, Nancy, Sarah, and Nicholas.
In 1944, Bowen moved to Saudi Arabia and worked as
an engineer. After three years, he returned to MIT to complete his PhD in chemical
engineering. In January of 1949, Bowen returned to Saudi Arabia as part of the
American Foundation for the Study of Man Project to work in Saint Catherine’s Monastery
at the base of Mt. Sinai to install motor generators to provide power for a
project transferring 500,000 pages of manuscripts on early Christian studies to
microfilm. Afterwards, he joined the
Coated Textile Mills in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, founded by his father in the
1920s, as Vice President and Director of Research. In 1963, Bowen sold the company and founded
Tensiometers Inc. in East Providence, Rhode Island.
Bowen’s father was a renowned genealogist and
president of the Rhode Island Historical Society in the 1940s; he passed his
interests on to his son. Throughout his life, the younger Bowen was an avid
collector of antiques and a scholar of early American pewter. He regularly
published articles on pewter and other aspects of early American decorative arts,
and also articles on genealogy, New England history, chemical engineering, and
Middle Eastern archaeology. Dick Bowen
passed away on September 20, 2013.
SCOPE AND
CONTENT
This collection is comprised of items which reflect
Bowen’s deeply held passion for collecting antiques and researching pewter.
Bowen studied the growth of colonial New England and the roots of American
pewterers. Primarily, Bowen’s interests focused
on pewter, but he extended his research into various household wares made of other
metals, such as brass and silver.
Items in this collection include periodical
articles, some by Bowen; manuscripts and research notes; photographs, drawings,
and trade catalogs; genealogical records; eighteenth-century pattern books;
deeds, probate records, and directories; maps; invoices; and correspondence. These materials pertain to candlesticks,
porringers, teapots, andirons, lamps, and other items made of pewter and other
metals. He collected papers on pewterers
like Joseph Belcher, William Calder, the Thomas Danforth family, Samuel Hamlin,
Gershom Jones, and more. He corresponded
with collectors like Charles V. Swain and Ledlie Laughlin. Other correspondence
in the collection includes letters between Bowen and Winterthur Museum, the
Essex Institute, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and various other libraries,
historical societies in New England, and museums.
In numerous manuscripts and articles published in
the PCCA Bulletin and Antiques Magazine, Bowen covered topics
on pewter designs, reproductions, maker markings, and corrosion. Along with his
research notes, copies of his writings are scattered throughout the collection
by topic.
ORGANIZATION
The papers are divided into four series: Pewterers,
Forms, General Files, and Drawings.
LANGUAGE OF
MATERIALS
The materials are in English.
RESTRICTIONS
ON ACCESS
Collection is open to the public. Copyright restrictions may apply.
PROVENANCE
Gift of Nancy Bowen, daughter of Richard Le Baron
Bowen.
ACCESS POINTS
People:
Laughlin, Ledlie
Irwin.
Swain, Charles
V.
Topics:
Pewter
Collectors’ Club of America
Andirons
Antiques –
United States
Candlesticks
Pewter
Pewter –
Drawings
Pewter – United
States – Private collections
Pewter – United States – Collectors and collecting
Pewterers
New England –
History.
DETAILED
DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION
Location: 13 H 9, I 1-6
Series I:
Pewterers
Box 1: Makers
Folder 1: Apprentices
Folder 2: Austin,
Nathaniel and Richard, and Thomas Badger
Folder 3: Babbitt,
Charles and Isaac
Folder 4: Baker,
John (2004)
Folder 5: Baker,
John (manuscript)
Folder 6: Barns,
Blakeslee and Thomas Danforth III
Folder 7: Barlow,
James: candlesticks
Folder 8: Belcher,
Joseph
Folder 9: Belcher,
Joseph: antiques articles
Folder 10: Belcher,
Joseph: inventory
Folder 11: Belcher,
Joseph: porringers (correspondence and manuscript)
Box 2: Makers
Folder 1: Billings,
William
Folder 2: Boardman,
Thomas D., and other Connecticut makers
Folder 3: Boardman,
Luther and Burrage Yale: Boardman coffee pot
Folder 4: Bowditch,
Ebenezer: Bowdish and Bowditch genealogies
Folder 5: Brigden,
Timothy
Folder 6: Braman,
Elijah
Folder 7: Calder,
William
Folder 8: Calder,
William: ledgers (1823 – 1851)
Folder 9: Calder,
William: ledger summaries (1835, 1838)
Folder 10: Calder,
William: pitchers, candlesticks, teapots, and lamps
Box 3: Makers
Folder 1: Calder,
William: working dates and customers
Folder 2: Clarke,
Samuel
Folder 3: Clarke,
Samuel: references
Folder 4: Collier,
Richard and Daniel Jackson (Providence, R.I., braziers)
Folders 5-6: Coldwell,
George
Folder 7: Colton,
Oren
Folder 8: Cox,
William
Folder 9: Crossman,
Ebenezer
Folder 10: Danforth
genealogy (Middletown): deeds and probates
Box 4: Makers
Folder 1: Danforth,
Job
Folder 2: Danforth,
Josiah (including photo of porringer)
Folder 3: Danforth,
Samuel: history of Taunton
Folder 4: Danforth,
Samuel: grantee (Taunton)
Folder 5: Danforth,
Thomas
Folder 6: Danforth,
Thomas, I: Norwich
Folder 7: Danforth,
Thomas, II, and Jacob Whitmore: measures (manuscript)
Folder 8: Danforth,
Thomas, II: markings
Folders 9-10: Danforth,
Thomas, III: molds and pewter: manuscript and correspondence
Box 5: Makers
Folder 1: Danforth,
Thomas, II: molds and pewter (teapots, sugar bowls, beakers)
Folder 2: Danforth,
Thomas, III: teapots, sugar bowls, beakers (manuscript)
Folder 3: Danforth, Thomas, III: The Bulletin (of the Pewter Collectors’
Club of America), summer 2005
Folder 4: Danforth,
Thomas, III: Danforth marks (manuscript)
Folders 5-7: Danforth,
Thomas, III: markings
Folder 8: Danforth,
William, and Belcher porringers
Folder 9: Connecticut Courant: Danforth
Folder 10: Day,
Benjamin
Folder 11: Dolbear,
Edmond and John
Box 6: Makers
Folder 1: Edgell,
Simon
Folder 2: Englefield,
William
Folder 3: Estabrook,
Richard
Folder 4: Flagg,
David
Folder 5: Gleason,
Roswell
Folder 6: Gooch,
John
Folder 7: Goldsmiths
(gold makers)
Folder 8: Green,
Jonas, Samuel, and Others
Folder 9: Greenwood,
Isaac
Folder 10: Hall,
Almer
Folder 11: Hamlin,
Samuel and Hamlin’s early marks
Folder 12: Hamlin,
Samuel: Hamlin’s eagles, press, and porringers
Box 7: Makers
Folder 1: Hamlin,
Samuel: Hamlin’s eagles
Folder 2: Henshaw,
Benjamin: Connecticut Courant
Folder 3: Henshaw,
Benjamin: Connecticut court records
Folder 4: Henshaw,
Joshua, and Henshaw family
Folder 5: Jackson,
Mary
Folder 6: Jones,
Gershom
Folder 7: Jones,
Gershom: genealogy
Includes
original silhouette of Jones
[continues
in next box]
Box 8: Makers
Folder 1: Jones,
Gershom: genealogy
Includes
these titles:
Doyle,
Thomas. Five Years in a Lottery Office…. (1841).
Meeting Houses of the First Congregational
Society in the City of Providence, R.I., 1723-1899.
Westminster Street, Providence, As It Was
about 1824.
[continued
from previous box]
Folder 2: Jones,
Gershom: genealogy notes and manuscript
Folder 3: Jones,
Gershom: inventory
Folder 4: Jones,
Gershom: touch marks
Folder 5: Jones,
Gershom, and Samuel Hamlin partnership: research notes
Folder 6: Jones,
Gershom and Samuel Hamlin partnership (manuscript)
Folder 7: Jones,
Gershom and Samuel Hamlin: court records
Folder 8: Keene,
Josiah
Folder 9: Langworthy,
Lawrence
Folder 10: Ledell,
Joseph
Box 9: Makers
Folder 1: Lee
family: census
Folder 2: Lee
family genealogy
Folder 3: Lee,
Richard: autobiography and pamphlets
Folders 4-5: The Two Richard Lees (research and
manuscript notes)
Folder 6: The Two Richard Lees (manuscript)
Box 10: Makers
Folder 1: Lee,
Richard: deeds and descendants
Folder 2: Lee,
Richard, and Thomas Boardman Porringer
Folder 3: Lee,
Richard: probates and other papers
Folder 4: Lee,
Samuel and others: deeds
Folder 5: Melville,
David, and Melville’s commemorative marks
Folder 6: Melville,
Samuel and Thomas: Melville family genealogy
Folder 7: Miller,
Josiah: sundials
Folder 8: Neale, Richard: “The Richard Neale
Touchplate”: manuscript, notes, correspondence
Folder 9: Neale,
Richard, and Bush and Perkins manuscript and notes
Box 11: Makers
Folder 1: Newport,
Rhode Island: pewterers
Folder 2: Northey,
Edward
Folder 3: Northey
family genealogy
Folder 4: Northey
family pewterers
Folder 5-6: Northey:
Correspondence with Jane King on Northey
Folder 7: Noyes,
John Jr.: Noyes family genealogy
Box 12: Makers
Folder 1: Noyes
and Cummings genealogy
Folder 2: Ohio
craftsmen
Folder 3: Parker,
Charles
Folder 4: Pettiver,
John: porringer
Folder 5: Pewterers
(articles): Arts and Crafts and “The
American at Work”
Folder 6: Pewterers:
Philadelphia Pewterers
Folder 7: Proud,
William and Daniel: ledgers
Folder 8: Randall,
Joseph
Folder 9: Rand,
Ed (Newburyport)
Folder 10: Richardson,
George: family and life in England
Folder 11: Richardson
family genealogy
Folder 12: Richardson,
George, II
Folder 13: Richardson,
George: “The George Richardson Problem III” (manuscript)
Folder 14: Richardson,
George: design source for water pitcher
Box 13: Makers
Folder 1: Richardson,
George: coffee pots
Folder 2: Richardson,
George: measures and drawings
Folder 3: Richardson,
George: sugarbowls
Folder 4: Richardson,
George (Boston)
Folder 5: Scott,
Jack
Folder 6: Spencer
family genealogy
Folder 7: Starr,
William
Folder 8: Tillinghast,
Paris J.
Folder 9: Townsend, John et. al (working dates)
Folder 10: Trask,
Israel and Lee & Creesy
Folder 11: Tutin,
William
Folder 12: Warren,
John B.
Box 14: Makers
Folders 1-2: Webb,
W.H.: brass oil lamps
Folder 3: Will,
John Jr.: article on tulip-shaped, double c-handle and acanthus leaf
Folder 4: Will, John Jr.: porringer,
markings, and correspondence with David Kilroy
Folder 5: Will,
William: eagle
Folder 6: Will,
William: early teapots
Folder 7: Williams,
Otis
Folder 8: Witherle,
Joshua: noir foil
Folder 9: Woodbury,
J.B.
Folder 10: Yeoman,
Johnathan: deeds and probate
Box 15: Makers
Folder 1: Youle,
George and Thomas
Folder 2: Miscellaneous
initials
Series II: Forms
Box 15: Forms
Folder 3: Andirons:
Arts and Crafts excerpts with various
references to andirons
Folder 4: Andirons:
Andiron patents
Folder 5: Andirons:
Andiron photos
Folder 6: Andirons:
Andiron prices
Folder 7: Andirons:
Andiron styles and development
Folder 8: Andirons:
Charlestown andiron
Folder 9: Andirons:
Mitchell, James R.: article on marked American andiron (1965)
Folder 10: Andirons:
New England andirons and makers
Folder 11: Andirons:
Smylie, Edward, andirons
Box 16: Forms
Folder 1-2: Candlesticks
Folder 3-5: Candlesticks:
article and book photocopies
Folder 6: Candlesticks:
correspondence (continues in next box)
Box 17: Forms
Folder 1: Candlesticks:
correspondence (continued from previous box)
Folder 2: Candlesticks:
correspondence with people in Great Britain
Folder 3: Candlesticks:
Brass: American brass candlesticks
Folder 4: Candlesticks:
Brass: English brass (side pushup candlesticks)
Folder 5: Candlesticks:
Britannia candlesticks
Folder 6-7: Candlesticks:
Corinthian capitals on candlesticks
Folder 8: Candlesticks:
Candlestick details (pushrods, etc.)
Folder 9: Candlesticks:
EK candlesticks
Box 18: Forms
Folder 1: Candlesticks:
Gadrooned candlesticks
Folder 2: Candlesticks:
Hogscrapers: correspondence
Folders 3-4: Candlesticks:
Hogscrapers: individuals
Folder 5-6: Candlesticks:
Hogscrapers (iron)
Folder 7: Candlesticks:
Meridian British candlesticks
Folder 8: Candlesticks:
Paktong candlesticks
Box 19: Forms
Folder 1: Candlesticks:
Miscellaneous candlesticks
Folder 2: Candlesticks:
notes and illustrations
Folder 3: Candlesticks:
Photographs
Folder 4: Candlesticks:
Queen Anne and George I candlesticks
Folder 5: Candlesticks
in Renaissance paintings
Folder 6: Candlesticks:
research from the Essex Institute
Folder 7: Candlesticks:
17th Century Spanish candlesticks
Folder 8: Candlesticks:
Square recessed-base candlesticks
Folder 9: Candlesticks:
Trumpet base candlesticks
Folder 10: Coffee
pots: 18th century forms
Folder 11: Coffee
urns
Folder 12: Designs:
Anchors and eagles (notes)
Folder 13: Designs:
early cluster columns, fluted columns, and gadrooning
Box 20: Forms
Folder 1: Designs:
flower handled porringers
Folder 2: Designs:
Double c-handle on Connecticut teaware
Folder 3: Designs:
flower handles: photographs
Folder 4: Designs:
footed beakers, MBC, and others
Folder 5: Designs:
love birds
Folder 6: Design:
19th century American pear-shaped pots and sewing birds
Folder 7: Design:
Silver designs (development)
Folder 8: Designs:
toy and miniature tea sets
Folder 9: Designs
in Paktong, German or Nickel silver
Folder 10: Dippers:
coconut, etc.
Folder 11: Dredgers,
shakers
Folder 12: Fire
tools, jam hooks, and fenders
Folder 13: Fireplace
hangers and jacks, marked Betty lamps and skimmer, gophering irons
Folder 14: Firebacks,
fountains, pots, waffle irons, stoves
Folder 15: Flagons
and chalices
Folder 16: Inkwells
Folder 17: Kettles:
brass
Box 21: Forms
Folder 1: Lamps
Folder 2: Lamps:
Britannia kerosene lamp & lamp fuel
Folder 3: Lamps:
Meriden Britannia, gadrooned lamps
Folder 4: Lamps:
TBM lamps
Folder 5: Lamps:
Lamp patents: Cornelius, Philadelphia, and others
Folder 6: Lamps:
Miscellaneous lamps
Folder 7: Lamps:
Lamp patents
Folder 8: Pitcher:
Isaac Howland pitcher
Folder 9: Porringers:
AG flower-handled porringers
Folder 10: Porringers:
Connecticut flowered porringers
Folder 11: Porringers:
Crown-handled porringers
Box 22: Forms
Folder 1: Porringers:
Crown porringer (with TS initials)
Folder 2: Porringers:
18th century porringers: old pewter and English exports
Folder 3: Porringers:
Export porringers
Folder 4: Porringers:
Geometric porringers
Folder 5-6: Porringers:
Gill flower handle porringers
Folder 7: Porringers:
half-pint flower handle porringers
Folder 8: Porringers:
Photographs of porringers (including negatives and photo orders)
Box 23: Forms
Folder 1: Porringers:
Photostats: France, porringers
Folder 2: Porringers: Porringer articles;
measurements and illustrations of 18th century porringers
Folder 3: Porringers:
Porringer brackets and embossed porringers
Folder 4: Porringers:
Porringer capacities
Folder 5: Porringers:
Porringer handles
Folder 6: Porringers:
Porringer usage
Folder 7-8: Porringers:
Porringers with TS initials (Thomas Spencer)
Box 24: Forms
Folder 1-2: Porringers:
Pre-Revolutionary porringers
Folder 3-4: Porringers:
Quaker porringers
Folder 5: Porringers:
Silver porringers and canns
Folder 6: Safe:
hobnail
Folder 7: Scales,
balances, and steelyards
Folder 8: Sempereadem,
IS and TS soup plates
Folder 9: Tankards
and mugs: Banded tankards and mugs
Box 25: Forms
Folder 1: Tankards
and mugs: New England Tankards and Mugs
Folder 2: “Teapot
Forms” and “5 ½ Pint Teapots”; American silver teapots
Folder 3: MBC:
Tobacco box and small sugar bowl
Folder 4: Trunk:
Abigale Dexter’s Box (1703)
Folder 5: Various
forms from Richardson, Calder, and Smith
Series III:
General Files
Box 25:
general files
Folder 6: Adams,
James and his unknown wife of Barrington
Folder 7: Albany,
New York, directories
Folders 8-9: Allen,
Robert, of Marblehead, Mass.: genealogy
Folder 10: Allyns
in Cape Cod: genealogy
Folder 11: American
and English Hallmarks
Box 26:
general files
Folder 1: Austin,
Beckford, Dennis, Jefferds, Waters: genealogy notes
Folder 2: Bacot,
Henry Parrott Jr., Brass Founding in New
York City (1972)
Folder 3: Birmingham
Directory
Folder 4: Birmingham
Directory, 1791
Folder 5: Birmingham
Directory, 1797
Folder 6: Blaney,
William: correspondence
Folder 7: Boston,
Massachusetts: early references; notes on Reverend David Benedict
Folder 8: Boston:
historical references to investigate and antiques articles
Folder 9: Bowen,
R.L.: list of articles
Folder 10: Brass:
casting brass
Folder 11: Brass
and Bronze Composite and Paktong
Box 27:
general files
Folder 1: Brass
founders in Philadelphia: from Prime file at Winterthur
Folder 2: Braziers
(brass makers)
Folder 3: Britannia
ware
Folder 4: Britannia
ware: first Britannia
Folder 5: Burr
and Whipple genealogy notes
Folder 6: Catalogs:
Art Institute of Chicago (bobeches, save-alls, and late lighting devices)
Folder 7-8: Catalogs:
Meridian British
Folder 9: Catalogs:
Pearson-Page catalogs: Winterthur correspondence
Folder 10: Catalogs:
Pewter catalogs
[continues
in next box]
Box 28:
General Files
Folder 1: Catalogs:
Pewter catalogs
[continued
from previous box]
Folder 2: Catalogs:
Pewter items and photos from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Folder 3: Catalogs:
Trade catalogs and English directories
Folder 4: Chinese
export porcelain: correspondence with Elizabeth Sharpe
Folder 5: Comments
on Charles Swain’s “Three Will Flagons”
Folder 6: Copper
(signed), brass bells, and posnets
Folders 7-8: Current
pewter and brass research
Box 29:
General Files
Folder 1: Drop
and screw presses
Folder 2: Editorial
comments
Folder 3: Ely,
Nathaniel: descendants and genealogy notes
Folder 4: Essex
Institute: Pattern Books
Folder 5: Federal
processions
Folder 6: Fiske,
Jane: correspondence
Folder 7-8: Fryer
Family Court Cases
Folder 9: Garth’s
Auctions, Inc.: to sell and sold, Nov. 1995-Jan. 1996
Folder 10: Goodwin,
Webster, and Ott, Joseph K. O’Neill (Darby): collectors
Folder 11: Greene,
Nathaniel: Papers Project (Rhode Island Historical Society)
Folder 12: Hilt,
Wayne: correspondence and bulletins
Box 30:
General Files
Folder 1: Historic
Deerfield
Folders 2-3: Holmes,
Obadiah: genealogy and history of Rhode Island
Folder 4: Ironware:
Enameled
Folder 5: King,
Joyce: correspondence
Folder 6: Laughlin,
Ledlie: correspondence;
Includes
correspondence between Laughlin and Bowen about the latter’s course of study at
Princeton, 1937
Folder 7: The Magazine Antiques: articles on
pewter
Folder 8: Maps:
New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Providence
Folder 9: Massachusetts
Mechanics Association
Folder 10: Metal
color and materials
Folder 11: Middletown,
Connecticut, connection
Folder 12: New
England history: Theodore Clifton, Quakers
Box 31:
general files
Folder 1: Newport
Tower
Folder 2: New-York
Historical Society: NYC directories, correspondence
Folder 3: New
York Terminal Warehouse Co.: blotter with holiday greetings, 1961
Folder 4: O’Flaherty
genealogy notes
Folder 5: Pass,
Garland: correspondence
Folder 6: Patents:
index: 1790-1873
Folder 7: Pattern
Books: Winterthur
Folder 8: Paule,
William genealogy notes
Folder 9: Pewter
and Brass Corrosion
Folder 10: Pewter:
articles by Melvyn Wolf and Bowen’s notes on Wolf’s articles
Box 32:
Folder 1: Pewter:
American Revolution and Pewterers
Folder 2: Pewter: correspondence with Philip
Zimmerman on porringers; with Richard McKinstry on trade catalogs; with Ian
Robinson on markings; and with Jared Cooper on collecting pewter
Folders 3-4: Pewter: Dealers: invoices, 1970-1979
Folder 5: Pewter: English Export Pewter
Folder 6: Pewter: English Export Pewter:
Drawings
Folder 7: Pewter: makers’ marks (photos from
Andrew Turano); correspondence with Turano and Garland Parr on Turano’s
articles for PCCA Bulletin
Folder 8: Pewter:
miscellaneous pewter notes: Boston references, bright-cut engraving
Folder 9: Pewter:
miscellaneous notes and clippings
Folder 10: Pewter:
Non-destructive testing of
Folder 11: Pewter:
patents
Box 33:
Folder 1: Pewter:
Pre-revolutionary American Pewter
Folder 2: Pewter:
Reproductions
Folder 3: Pewter:
research: Rhode Island Historical Society
Folder 4: Pewter:
Research notes: marking after finishing
Folder 5: Pewter:
Pewterer’s wheel and tower
Folder 6: Pewter: Winterthur: photos of
porringers; correspondence with Winterthur and MFA Boston; invoices for prints
Folder 7: PCCA Bulletin: notes and correspondence
Folder 8: Pioneers and Prominent Men; notes on
smallpox
Folder 9: Plater
mold casting: correspondence with Tensco and notes
Folder 10: Providence,
Rhode Island: directories
Folder 11: Providence,
R.I.: early tinplate workers
Folder 12: Rhode
Island: sealers of weights and measures
Folder 13: Rhode
Island genealogy research: Obadiah Holmes
Folder 14: Rhode
Island and Newport Historical Society: New England history
Box 34:
Folders 1-2: Sheaf
of wheat: research notes
Folder 3: Silvered brass and silvering
Folder 4: Silversmiths
(manufacturers) in Rhode Island: Providence, Newport, West Bay
Folder 5: Silversmiths
in Providence, Rhode Island
Folder 6: Springfield,
Vermont: deeds and tax lists
Folder 7: Springfield,
Vermont: History of
Folder 8: unmarked
Carpenter furniture
Box 35: general
files: legal size
Folder 1: Vermont,
New Hampshire, etc.: genealogy research
Folders 2-9: Candlesticks:
photocopies of trade catalog from the Essex Institute: v. 1-9
Folder 10: Candlesticks:
photocopies of trade catalog from Winterthur
Folder 11: Stafford and Spence Union Air Furnace
Company: research notes and notes on stoves
Series IV:
Drawings, mostly of pewter and Britannia wares
Many of these full-size drawings are signed WEB, but
the identity of that person is not known.
Presumably, those signed RLB are by Richard Bowen. The drawings came to the Downs Collection in
unmarked folders, and the contents of each folder were kept together.
Box 36:
Folder 1: tankard, coffee pots, teapots, tea
caddy, castor stand, by I. Trask and various other makers
Folder 2: teapots, sugar bowls, creamers, coffee
pots, goblet, hot water/coffee urns, by Armitages; Standish; Reed & Barton;
Leonard, Reed & Barton; Babbit Crossman Co.; Taunton Britannia
Manufacturing Co.; Crossman West & Leonard
Folder 3: teapots,
by Dixon & Smith; Dixson & Son; various makers
Folder 4: teapots,
by Morey & Smith; Smith Co.; Smith & Son
Folder 5: teapots, coffee pots, sugar bowls,
creamers, by James Dixon & Son and various makers
Folder 6: teapots and coffee pots, by Rosewell
Gleason, T. Danforth, and various makers, from various dealers and collectors
Folder 7: coffee pots, tea pots, pitchers,
sugar bowls, creamers, from various makers and dealers
Folder 8: teapots, coffee pots, castor stand:
William Calder and Samuel Hamlin, various dealers
Folder 9: mostly andirons, but also lamps,
candlesticks, tongs, shovels; by Gordon & Mason; various collectors and
dealers
[presumably, all
these items are brass]
Folder 10: candlesticks, basin, lamps, castor set,
shuttles for looms, blue line copies of drawings, items by Leonard Reed &
Barton and others
Folder 11: basins, mugs, teapots, handles and
spouts, coffee pots, miscellaneous pewter, by G. Jones, G. Richardson, S.
Hamlin, and various other makers
[not
all of these are measured drawings]
Folder 12: coffee
pots, teapots, by G. Richardson, from various dealers and collectors