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While the term pewter covers a range of tin-based alloys, the term English pewter has come to represent a strictly-controlled alloy, specified by BSEN611-1...

Pewter (/ˈpjuːtər/) is a malleable metal alloy consisting of tin (85–99%), antimony (approximately 5–10%), copper (2%), bismuth, and sometimes silver....

metal (also called britannium or Britannia ware) is a specific type of pewter alloy, favoured for its silvery appearance and smooth surface. The composition...

Ghia's body panels were butt-welded, hand-shaped, and smoothed with English pewter in a time-consuming process commensurate with higher-end manufacturers...

The Worshipful Company of Pewterers is one of the 111 Livery Companies of the City of London. It ranks 16th in the order of precedence of City Livery...

(1715–1760) was an English pewterer and writer of pamphlets. A prosperous pewterer in London, he was the son of Alexander Cleeve, pewterer in Cornhill, who...

A Welsh dresser, sometimes known as a kitchen dresser, pewter cupboard or china hutch, is a piece of wooden furniture consisting of drawers and cupboards...

destroyed bicycle, and Brock, a Pokémon breeder who is the leader of the Pewter City gym. The episodes were produced by Oriental Light and Magic, with Takeshi...

Vietnamese: tích trượng; "tin stick"), sometimes referred to in English as a pewter staff, is a staff topped with metal rings traditionally carried by...

be made out of stoneware, pewter, porcelain or even silver, wood or crystal glass; they may have open tops or hinged pewter lids with a thumb-lever. Steins...

common words with ew pronounced /ɛw/ were dew, few, hew, lewd, mew, newt, pewter, sew, shew (show), shrew, shrewd and strew. Words in which /ʊj/ was commonly...

Thomas Curtis (sometimes Thomas Curteys; died 27 November 1559) was an English pewterer and politician who was elected Lord Mayor of London in 1556. He was...

this account is not true, it is an example of 17th-century Jacobean English pewter ware.[citation needed] A curious medieval tradition also survives at...

and bismuth, is intermediate in hardness between pewter and britannia metal. It was developed by English pewtersmiths in the 16th century; the recipe was...

Raise To Abraham Children of Stone English Worshipful Company of Pewterers 16 In God is all my Trust English Pewterers' Hall, Oat Lane Worshipful Company...

nicknamed them "the pirates in pewter pants," a play on the Gilbert and Sullivan opera The Pirates of Penzance. The nickname "Pewter Pirates" also became trendy...

range of goods, including decorative ironwork and early clocks. Pewter-working, using English tin and lead, was also widespread in London during the period...

Petty Pewter Gods is a fantasy novel by American writer Glen Cook, the eighth novel in his ongoing Garrett P.I. series. The series combines elements of...

his working life in Britain, and best known for the comic strip Colonel Pewter. Arthur Wakefield Horner was born in Melbourne and lived in the suburb of...

Jardinière is a French word, from the feminine form of "gardener". In English it means a decorative flower box or "planter", a receptacle (usually a ceramic...