Pewter feels the decorative effect
LARGE quantities of antique pewter are rarely seen at auction these days but even so, the supply of ordinary material is hardly met with rampant demand. As such, prices were kept down for the majority of the 122 pewter lots that Bonhams had impressively gathered for their Chester sale on 17 January.
This would not have mattered so much had the rarer material been offered to collectors a straight-si…