A pair of Dutch pewter tankards

Before 1550 Maastricht was one of the first cities in the Northern Netherlands that made the rose mark for pure English pewter compulsory. As appears from a resolution of 30th July 1544 for the "cremersambacht" in Maastricht one of the tinmen offered to make pewter of soe goeden stouff als Engels thien metter roesen. The municipal government decided therefore that other tinmen should follow this example. Pewter should be signed metter teykenen vander roesen ende daerinne gestampt der stadt starre. (RA Limburg, Register van Statuten, reglementen enz. voor het cremersambacht, inv.arch. Maastrichtse ambachten, nr. 17).
Literature:
B. Dubbe, Tin en tinnegieters in Nederland, Lochem, 1978, p. 109.

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