Toys, Trifles and Trinkets

Title: Toys, Trifles and Trinkets

Base Metal Miniatures from London

c. 1200 to c. 1800.

Author: Hazel Forsyth with Geoff Egan

List price: £45.00

ISBN: 0 906290 74 0

Contents: This is the first contemporary and inter-disciplinary study undertaken and includes general information on manufacturing technique and production, makers and workshops, trade and distribution, function and form as well as new research on the patrons and consumers of such miniatures.

Reviews: ".... magnificently produced and meticulously researched....provides a comprehensive review of mainly pewter base-metal miniatures from c.1200 to 1800......an indispensable book for anyone interested in the history of...the pewter's trade and in the history of children's playthings." Ron Homer, Journal of the Pewter Society, Vol. 24 Autumn 2005.

"Toys, Trifles and Trinkets deserves a place on the shelves of academic libraries, museums, scholars and finds researchers wherever medieval and post-medieval studies feature....it provides for the first time a definitive catalogue of the largest corpus of such material in Britain..." Peter Saunders, Medieval Archaeology: Journal for the Society for Medieval Archaeology, Volume 50 2006