A Guide to Artifacts of Colonial America

Name/Title

A Guide to Artifacts of Colonial America

Description

"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." - OCLC

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

artifacts (object genre)

Publication Details

Author

Ivor Noel Hume

LCCN

E159.5 N6