pewter

The silver, pewter and brass items were taken from the 16th Century manor house at Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire, on 30 July.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

The piece takes inspiration from Chinese fretwork patterns, Art Noveau designs and German sculptor Hugo Leven’s iconic pewter bat candelabras.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

The person who catches the biggest fish goes home with an engraved pewter cup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

There was a claw-foot tub with pewter fixtures, a charmingly messy bookshelf window-seat, a kitchen painted a cool green.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024

Women were taking their beautiful pewter from dresser shelves, stoically watching it melt in crucibles.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

The Strand was kept alive by a few slip-shod housemaids, on their marrow-bones, washing the doorsteps, or ogling the neighbouring pot-boy on his morning errand for the pewters.

From Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities by Robert Smith Surtees

Mathieu could well remember that room with its profuse and amusing display of "antiquities," old brocades, old goldsmith's ware and old pottery, and its richly bound books, and its famous modern pewters.

From Fruitfulness by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

I go in in the scratch fours for the pewters, and—more by token—my crew won them two years running.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes

Pipe-racks of oak were screwed into the wainscoting under long shelves, well stored with pewters, glass tankards, punch-bowls, and tobacco-jars.

From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

That's what we used to sing in the Lane, yer know; should 'ave seen the coster gals with their feathers, dancing and clinking their pewters.

From Esther Waters by George (George Augustus) Moore