Old London silver, its history, its makers and its marks (1903)
Howard, Montague · New York, Scribner · leaf 162
23 CHAPTER IV TANKARDS RIGINALLY the name tankard meant a vessel for carrying water, but about the middle of the sixteenthcentury it came to denote an article that was principallyutilized for holding beer. It superseded the beaker, andwas an improvement upon that article in that the tankardhad a…
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