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A guide to artifacts of colonial America Ivor Noël Hume

Catalog Data

Author:
Noël Hume, Ivor  Search this
Physical description:
xviii, 323, vi pages illustrations 25 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
United States
États-Unis
Date:
1970
Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
Notes:
Also issued online.
Contents:
Signposts to the past -- An alphabetical guide to the artifacts: armor, bayonets, beads, bellarmines, bells, bottles (glass liquor, glass pharmaceutical, pottery), bricks and brickwork, buckles, buttons and sleeve buttons, candlesticks and lighting accessories, ceramics (American, British, European), chamberpots, 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, window glass, hinges, horseshoes and horse furniture, locks and padlocks, nails, pins, needles, and thimbles, Chinese porcelain, finger rings, scissors, lead seals, silver, spades and hoes, Rhenish stoneware, Delft and other tiles, roofing tiles, tobacco pipes and smoking equipment, toys, and wig curlers
Topic:
Numismatics  Search this
Tobacco  Search this
Ceramics  Search this
Glass  Search this
United States--Antiquities  Search this
Numismatique  Search this
Tabac  Search this
Antiquities  Search this
numismatics  Search this
tobacco (material)  Search this
History  Search this
Antiquités  Search this
Histoire  Search this
Call number:
E159.5 .N76
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_3271