The appeal of old pewter lies in its unusual shapes and mellow tints and above all in its rarity. At the point of origin antique pewter normally had low value and our ancestors could have had little notion, as they drank their ale from pewter tankards or ate their meals from pewter plate, of the prominence that these household goods would one day acquire or the prices that it might command. Although the metal itself has little intrinsic value - as an alloy of lead and tin with a soupcon of antimony, bismuth or copper - it has grown in...
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