Metals
Joseph Belcher Sr. (Maker)
Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, New England, United States, North America
1769-1769
Pewter
Cast
1953.0155.009
Object Number1953.0155.009 |
Plate
Metals
Gift of Charles K. Davis
Joseph Belcher Sr. (Maker)
04/13/1729-09/27/1778
Father of Joseph Belcher Jr, pewterer.
Joseph Belcher Sr moved from his native Boston, Massachusetts to Newport, Rhode Island as a young man. He was admitted as a freeman in 1756, the same year that he led an expedition against Crown Point and served as a member of the Rhode Island Assembly. He worked mostly as a brazier. He moved his family to Brookline, Massachusetts during the British occupation of Newport, and he died there.
For more on Joseph Belcher Sr's marks, see Montgomery, History of American Pewter (1973), p.216; Carl Jacobs, Guide to American Pewter (1957), p.36; Ebert, Collecting American Pewter (1973), p.123; and Kauffman, The American Pewterer (1970), p.133. See also Laughlin, Pewter in America (1981), vol.1, p.89-91 and C. Jordan Thorn, Handbook of American Silver and Pewter Marks (1949), p.239.
Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, New England, United States, North America
1769-1769
1. Mark ; Underside; "JOSEPH BELCHE" stamped in an oval with a bird in a crosshatched ground.
2. Mark ; Underside; "JOSEPH·" stamped in an oval with a bird in a crosshatched ground. The mark is partially effaced.
3. Mark; Underside; "H · ER" stamped in an oval with a bird in a crosshatched ground at the center. Partially effaced.
Pewter
Cast
0.551 (H) , 7.992 (Diam)
1.4 (H) , 20.3 (Diam)
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