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PEWTER ON VIEW: About 50
members of The Pewter Collectors' Club of America, Inc. (PCCA) visited
Wesleyan Oct. 16 for a special viewing of a portion of the Mr. and Mrs. J.
E. Burns, Jr. Collection of Antique Pewter, donated in 1984. Pictured left
to right are Clare Rogan, curator of the Davison Art Center; David Kilroy,
event organizer and member of the PCCA, and Juliana Shortell, collections manager of the
Archaeology Program, posing with an 18th century tankard by Peter Young. |
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At right, David Kilroy, organizer of the
group's national fall meeting, discusses ecclesiastical pewter with Tom and Ellen O'Flaherty in the Exley Science Center. The pewter collection
was donated to the Davison Art Center, but it is currently curated with
the Archaeology and Anthropology Collections in the Science Center.
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Ruth and David Hall of Wales, U.K. look at a
flagon by William Maxwell of Scotland. For more information on the PCCA,
visit
http://home1.gte.net/vzn05wao/pcca/contents.htm. (Photos by Douglas
Charles, professor anthropology and archaeology and chair and director
of the Collections, Archaeology Program) |
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