A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 270
The pennerwas commonly made of cuir-bouilli (see p. 96), and a fineexample said to have belonged to Henry VI is in the Victoria andAlbert Museum. PENCILS AND PENS. See p. 271. 227 PEWTER. Pewter is an alloy, of which the principal constituents are tin,and lead or antimony. The tin industry was… … Fig. 164.—Pewter dish with enamelled roundel, time ofCharles I. Edward IV in 1473. Pewter below the standard quality couldnow be confiscated, and marked with the stamp of a broadarrow. In England, outside London, the principal centres ofpewter-making were first York and Newcastle; later…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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