Object Number 1965.2495

Object Name

Plate

Category

Metals

Credit Line/Donor

Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont

Creator (Role)

Peter Young (Maker)
1749-1813
Peter Young married Eva Moore in 1785. He bought property on Columbia Street, Albany in 1792 but he lost his house and barn in the fire of Albany on August 4, 1797. Laughlin believes that Young did not resume his practice after that event (p.23). For more on Peter Young's marks, see C. Jordan Thorn, Handbook of American Silver and Pewter Marks, section 2, p.289; Carl Jacobs, Guide to American Pewter, 1942, p.194-5; Ebert, Collecting American Pewter (1973), p.146; and Montgomery, History of American Pewter (1973), p.229. See also Laughlin, Pewter in America (1981), p.22-23.

Spencer Stafford (Merchant)
05/10/1772-02/10/1844
Laughlin, Pewter in America, Volume II, pp. 31-32 discusses Stafford. An image of Stafford is on PL. VII. Born in Massachusetts, his family moved to Albany in 1783. Stafford was apprenticed to his brother-in-law from 1788 to 1792. He married Dorothea Hallenbake on September 7, 1790. In 1792 he moved to Deerfield for about a year. In 1794 he returned to Albany & advertised that he worked in metals. During his career Stafford had several partnerships. Laughlin states that there is no evidence that Stafford actually made pewter products but rather retailed the work of others.

Place of Origin

Albany, Albany, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Date

1794-1813

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Mark ; Underside ; "PY" stamped under a crowned rose, within a low-arched rectangle with a beaded border. Effaced at the bottom.
2. Mark ; Underside; "PY" stamped under a crowned rose, within a low-arched rectangle with a beaded border. Effaced at the bottom and top.
3. Mark; Underside; "S. STAFFORD" stamped twice (overstuck) in a rectangle.

Materials

Pewter

Techniques

Cast

Dimensions (inches)

0.906 (H) , 8.898 (Diam)

Dimensions (centimeters)

2.3 (H) , 22.6 (Diam)

Object Description

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Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Laughlin, Ledlie Irwin. 1970 Pewter in America: Its Makers and Their Marks. I thru III.
• For information about the relationship between Stafford and Young see, p. 31, vol. 2.