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.
