Illustrated Catalogue Of The Very Important Collection Of Rare Old English Lustre And Other China Pewter Glass Americana Colonial Furniture Weapons And Other Interesting Objects

Excerpt from Illustrated Catalogue of the Very Important Collection of Rare Old English Lustre and Other China Pewter, Glass, Americana, Colonial Furniture, Weapons and Other Interesting Objects: Formed by the Connoisseur Walter Clinton Hill, Esq., Of Boston The collection of antiquities gathered together by Mr. Walter C. Hill, representing the accumulation of many years and now to be dispersed by the American Art Association, will especially appeal to a large circle of American collectors. While broad in scope, it consists mainly of objects of Amer ican and English manufacture, covering the period from about 1750 to 1850. Seldom has there been offered for sale so important a gathering of English and American potteries, porcelains, and glassware, which constitute the larger part of the collection, and which have been carefully inspected and described by the writer in the pages of the catalogue devoted to these subjects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.