Old London silver, its history, its makers and its marks (1903)
Howard, Montague · New York, Scribner · leaf 169
to the size of the tankard.The early English pegged vessels are supposed to have beeninvented by St. Dunstan (925-988), the celebrated church-man and silversmith whose portrait maybe seen on page 3. Many quarrels arose in the inns at this time, when theliquor was served in one vessel, as to the… … imbibed more than his portion. Like many prohibitorylaws, the opposite result was obtained. The law was con-strued to mean that if one drank short of his peg, or beyondit, then it was incumbent on him to drink once more, and stillagain, if necessary, until the liquor was on a line with somepeg, or…
Plate · Silverwork · Hallmarks
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