Old London silver, its history, its makers and its marks (1903)
Howard, Montague · New York : Scribner · leaf 167
ng 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… … No. 85 (1703) Chased with strapwork, masks and fruit. At South Kensington Museum 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…
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