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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 90

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sed that someof the articles, intrinsically, are worth the amountswhich have been paid for them. If sold again to-morrow most of them might fetch very much less,while some (and there is no need to specify these)would sell at much higher prices because of thedemand for such just at the present time.… … J 87 PEWTER PRICES 89 that they as beginners had happened upon prices ata third or a fourth of the prices charged to-day. To mention but a few special instances. Spoonsused to be found in excavations, usually in ThamesStreet or in Bermondsey, and passed years ago intocollectors hands for a few…

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