"ROYAL WORCESTER PEWTER" - "BOSTON TEA PARTY"

What an Exceptional Historical Collector's Dream! A 1972 Limited Edition; Very Fine "Royal Worcester Pewter" art. This is the Boston Tea Party which depicts the BIRTH OF A NATION in very fine pewter plate series made by Royal Worcester. It measures 10" inches and is in Excellent condition with its original box. A stunning Christmas gift or a great way to show your pride for US History! This item retails at $135.00 elsewhere on the Internet.

HISTORY OF PEWTER - Pewter is one of the most alluring realms among American antiques because it is so intimately bound up with the everyday life of our forefathers. In the first place it was what you might call a finely democratic article. It was made for people who could not afford much silver or who did not want to use their silver all the time. It happened not to be as elegant as silver in color or texture but it had about it an air of distinction and a certain substantial solidity that reflected the comfortable character of the people who used it in their homes.

In the story of American pewter there are many links with our colonial history. For example, the main ingredient of pewter is tin and since there were no tin mines in this country the metal had to be imported from England under a heavy tax. England at that time did not want her colonies to become manufacturers of pewter or anything else. She wanted to do all the manufacturing herself so that she could give her workmen employment, give her investors the profit of selling finished goods and at the same time keep her colonists forever dependent on the mother country. It was one of those shortsighted, selfish policies that could lead to nothing but trouble and everybody knows of the explosion that occurred when a match was struck to the powder in that angry uproar known as the Boston Tea Party. The incident happened to center on the tax to be paid for a newly arrived cargo of tea but it was the endless taxes on everything else-on cargoes of tin to be made into pewter, on shipments of textiles to he made into clothing, on china, glassware, tools, iron and all the rest-which had brought the Americans to the boiling point that turned the Boston harbor rumpus into a national revolution.