Research Catalog

Title

A guide to artifacts of colonial America / Ivor Noël Hume.

Author

Noël Hume, Ivor

Publication

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2001?]

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Details

Description

xix, 323 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Cited in virtually every Colonial-era site study of North America, A Guide to Artifacts of Colonial America holds a place of honor among historical archaeologists. It is a classic, highly sought after handbook for the professional archaeologist, museum curator, antiques dealer, collector, or social historian. Though first published more than thirty years ago, Ivor Noel Hume's guide continues to be the most useful and accurate reference on the identification of artifacts recovered from British colonial sites. This edition contains a new preface, and updated references, in addition to the original 102 photographs and line drawings. With a list of forty-three categories, including buttons, cutlery, stoneware, and firearms, collectors and curators of early American artifacts will find this book insightful, informative, and indispensable."--Jacket.

Subject

• 1600-1775
• Material culture > United States > Catalogs
• United States > Antiquities
• United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• United States > Antiquities > Catalogs
• United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Genre/Form

• Catalogs
• History

Note

• Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1970.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Signposts to the past -- An alphabetical guide to the artifacts. Armor -- Bayonets -- Beads -- Bellarmines -- Bells -- Bottles, glass liquor -- Bottles, glass pharmaceutical -- Bottles, pottery -- Bricks and brickwork -- Buckles -- Buttons and sleeve buttons -- Candlesticks and lighting accessories -- Ceramics, American -- Ceramics, British -- Ceramics, European -- Chamber pots, bedpans, and closestool pans -- Clocks and clockcases -- Coins, tokens, and jettons -- Combs -- Cooking vessels of iron and copper alloys -- Cutlery and spoons -- Drinking glasses and decanters -- Drug pots, jars, and pill tiles -- Firearms and gunflints -- Flowerpots and bell glasses -- Furniture hardware -- Glass, window -- Hinges -- Horseshoes and horse furniture -- Locks and padlocks -- Nails -- Pins, needles, and thimbles -- Porcelain, Chinese -- Rings, finger -- Scissors -- Seals, lead -- Silver, marks on English and American -- Spades and hoes -- Stoneware, Rhenish -- Tiles, Delft and other wares -- Tiles, roofing -- Tobacco pipes and smoking equiipment -- Toys -- Wig curlers -- Index.

ISBN

0812217713 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2001027620

OCLC

• 46822318
• SCSB-12422522

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library