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Chats on old pewter (1911)

Massé, H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph), b. 1860 · London, T.F. Unwin · leaf 44

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estingfor many reasons. The thing, too, has been donein another department of archaeology, and in oneof our provincial Museums there is a wonderful arrayof faked flint weapons and tools, which have deceivedeven the elect who know everything. A beginner in collecting pewter will be met withthe… … A BEER-JUG. [From the collection of II. Churcker, Es<j. 41 ADVICE TO COLLECTORS 43 fusing with a blow-pipe, soldering, bending, cleaning,scraping, scratching, cutting, and testing with a knife.Let him take a strip of lead, one of tin, one of goodpewter, and another of Britannia metal, and…

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