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I suppose I maybe should have put a comma between hand hammered pewter, and rimmed bowl .... not sure but...
It's a pewter bowl made by starting with a flat, circular, spun sheet of pewter, and hammered by hand with a hammer to form the bowl shape, the rim is also formed by hammering, when it is finished, hammer marks are left behing and are evident.
After the need for hand hammering to form the shape was replaced by automated mechanical methods, craftsmen would take these machine formed pieces, and actually decorate them w/hammer marks, for the sake of art.
Around the turn of the 20th century, this was done a lot by artists but usually to copper pieces, and a special glaze was added to give the piece a patina to simulate the effects of age. The piecies made by the most skilled craftsmen/artists, are quite valuable today and are avidly sought by collectors of "arts and crafts" period (circa 1900) pieces. Good "art pottery" from that same period, is also quite valuable and highly sought. Your grandmother could have a piece sitting in her china cabinet worth 10 grand, but most would never think it was worth anywhere even close to 1/10th of that.
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