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Scientific American, Vol. 89, No. 26 (December 1903) (1903)

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t in 1575 the Archbishop of Canterbury possessed company, and with this all his wares were to be covered with silver or gilding had to be specially "18 score and ten pounds of pewter vessels in the marked, to prevent their being placed on the market kitchen, in jugs, basins, porringers,… … A Colonial Pewter Teapot. A Colonial Pewter Platter. Ilatchlock (Snuffers) Used at Clean Drinking: Manor During the Revolution. of new for old metal, and decreeing against improper stamped. A fine of one penny a pound was levied on or fraudulent alloys. So stringent were the laws in all defective…

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