About
What it was made for, and what it's still good for.
The Pewter is an independent online magazine founded in 2025 to do one thing: long-form, careful reporting on the parts of life that move too slowly to make the daily wire feeds.
The Pewter is an editorial for collectors, restorers, and ordinary keepers of old things — antiques and the people who keep them in working order.
The magazine is run by a small editorial collective, the The Pewter Editorial Trust, constituted as a non-profit publisher. Decisions about coverage, accuracy, and editorial direction are taken independently of any commercial interest. We do not run display advertising.
We publish under five named contributors who together edit and write the magazine. You can read about each on the contributor pages. Pieces are commissioned, reported, edited, fact-checked, and published in roughly four-week cycles.
We hold ourselves to three standards. Our editorial policy, our style guide, our ethics statement.
Write to us at editor@thepewter.co.
The masthead
- HL
Hester Lloyd spent twenty-three years at Sotheby's before founding The Pewter. She edits the magazine's longest restoration pieces.
- CP
Cyrus Peake apprenticed under a Sheffield silver assayer in the 1990s. He edits the magazine's Markings section.
- BJ
Beatrix Joost has been writing about private collectors for sixteen years. She edits The Pewter's Collections section.
- QF
Quinn Faraday trained as a paper conservator at the Camberwell School of Art. She edits the magazine's Care section.
- EM
Ellis Mauro spent twelve years restoring clocks at a small workshop in Berlin's Neukölln before he started writing about other restorers.