Baluster Pewter Tankard

A traditional baluster-style pewter tankard with a polished pewter finish and a classic pear-shaped or hourglass body. The tankard features a flared rim, a central raised girdle, a stepped circular foot, and an elegant C-shaped scroll handle
A traditional baluster-style pewter tankard with a polished pewter finish and a classic pear-shaped or hourglass body. The tankard features a flared rim, a central raised girdle, a stepped circular foot, and an elegant C-shaped scroll handle
A traditional baluster-style pewter tankard with a polished pewter finish and a classic pear-shaped or hourglass body. The tankard features a flared rim, a central raised girdle, a stepped circular foot, and an elegant C-shaped scroll handle

Baluster Pewter Tankard

Raise a glass to a shape that has suited the hand for centuries. The Baluster Pewter Tankard takes its name from its shape, hand cast from antique moulds and turned on a lathe.

Each of these traditional one pint tankards is hand cast in some of the finest British pewter at our Birmingham pewter workshop, using antique moulds, then turned on a lathe, polished and boxed. It holds a full pint of beer, ale or anything else you would care to raise, stands 13cm tall and weighs around 650g, solid enough to feel like it means business.

The baluster is the gently swelling, waisted form you would recognise from a staircase spindle, a design pewterers have favoured for centuries because it simply sits right in the hand. Like its Georgian cousin, the Baluster has had the odd Hollywood appearance too. Every one carries our A. E. Williams touch mark and arrives in an A. E. Williams gift box, ready for weddings, birthdays and retirements.

Please note that this item is made to order and can take up to four weeks. Use our website chat feature or email us to find out an estimated date.

Take a look at the rest of our pewter tankards.

  • Specification
    • Made from 100% British pewter, handmade in Britain
    • Cast using antique moulds, hand turned and polished
    • Holds 1 pint
    • Stands 13cm tall, weighs approx. 650g
    • Individually touch marked with the A. E. Williams stamp
    • Comes in an A. E. Williams gift box
    • Engraving and gift wrapping available for an additional fee
    • Made to order, allow up to four weeks
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A traditional baluster-style pewter tankard with a polished pewter finish and a classic pear-shaped or hourglass body. The tankard features a flared rim, a central raised girdle, a stepped circular foot, and an elegant C-shaped scroll handle

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A Pewter Maker picking up an Antique Mould

A E Williams (Est 1779) Ltd is one of Britain's oldest pewter makers, still run by the family that founded it nearly 250 years ago. 


The story began when Thomas Williams started a small workshop making flatware and dishes from his home on the Welsh border, and from there the craft passed down through eight generations of the same family, all the way to Rebecca Johnson, who joined the business in 2015. 


Today we're based at our workshop in Digbeth, Birmingham, where we've been since the early 1970s.

OUR STORY
Pouring molten pewter into a bronze mould

We work from a collection of over 1,500 antique bronze moulds, some of which are centuries old. Many were made by hand long before machine tooling existed, and we still use them today, alongside moulds and skills of our own, to produce pieces with the kind of character that mass production simply can't replicate.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

At A E Williams, the materials we work with have been chosen over nearly 250 years of making things properly. Pewter sits at the heart of everything we do, but we also work with slate, glass, leather, and wood — each selected because it brings something the others can't: a different feel, a different occasion, a different kind of beauty.

Whatever you're looking for, every material we use is chosen to last, and to look better for it.

OUR MATERIALS