Massé, H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph), b. 1860 · London, T.F. Unwin · leaf 114
gan at once to oust the other, and the oustingbecame more complete when, later on, it was foundthat Britannia metal could be electro-plated. Here was the chance for the manufacturers tomake in the new metal, with a view to future electro-plating, all the articles that had hitherto been madein… … Ill WHAT IS PEWTER? 113 new things it caught the popular taste, which was not then at a very high artistic level, and the result, in a few years, was that the pewter trade, which was in a languishing state, gave up the hopeless struggle for existence. It lingered on because the bar industry, always…
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