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pewter
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A Pewter Collection Built From House Clearances
Over thirty-eight years, the Edinburgh ironmonger Hamish Brae has built a pewter collection of 1,140 pieces, almost entirely from house clearances within forty miles of his shop.
Markings
English Pewter Touch Marks of the Eighteenth Century
The London Pewterers' Company kept a touchplate at Pewterers' Hall on Lime Street from 1668 until the Hall was destroyed in the Blitz in 1940. The touchplate was a flat sheet of pewter on which each newly admitted master struck his personal mark.