Exempel på pewter

• It is lost by the publican when he transfers the beer from the barrel to the pewter.

• It is not exactly selling the family silver, but it is quite good pewter.

• Too often one hears remarks, not only about selling the family silver (even though that looks a bit more like pewter just now), but also about eating the seed corn.

• Detailed accounts were kept, noting charges of $1.33 for a pewter ink stand and $.50 for 50 quills.

• Letter openers may be composed of wood, metals such as stainless steel or pewter, plastic, sometimes even ivory, or a combination of materials.

• These front opening are usually closed by a row of pewter or silver clasps.

• The inventory of his estate included two pewter candlesticks, forty-two pewter dishes, four porringers, thirty-six spoons, one bedpan, and one still.

• It consisted of a cask of fire-extinguishing liquid containing a pewter chamber of gunpowder.

• In the buttery: 6 basins of laten, 6 candlesticks, 3 of them bellyd, 3 salts of pewter.

• Metalworking continued to grow and in particular, pewter working which generated exports second only to cloth.

• A rambling old farmhouse is filled with spectacular assemblages of mochaware, pewter, and staffordshire.

• Traditionally, it is a utilitarian piece of furniture used to store and display crockery, silverware and pewter-ware, but is also used to display general ornaments.

• Several known specimens exist in silver and one in gold, though reports of pewter and lead have also been made.

• Medals are given out in four colors: gold (first), silver (second), bronze (third), and pewter (fourth).

• The badge they selected is in the shape of an ivy leaf, set in silver pewter.