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A small collection, American pewter at Dartmouth represents a variety of common domestic forms in the Northeast, as well as pieces used as part of church communion services. Also included are several examples by Vermont pewterer Richard Lee Sr. (and/or Jr.), who worked for a time out of nearby Springfield.
Some highlights with entries from the Hood collection catalogue American Art at Dartmouth:
Thomas D. and Sherman Boardman, Flagon, 1810-50
G.C., Pair of Beakers, late eighteenth century
Richard Lee Sr., Porringer, about 1790-1816
Richard Lee Sr. and Richard Lee Jr., American, Porringer, 1795-about 1816