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Posted by Murray
on November 5, 2009, 12:58 am, in reply to "Pewter doesn't last forever apparently"
Zach, I've always understood pewter to be an alloy of copper and lead, involving no plating.
In fact, tomatoes were once thought to be poisonous because the less affluent used pewter cookware. The acid from cooked tomatoes leached out the lead and caused lead-poisoning. (At least that's what I read somewhere.)
- Murray
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: A few years ago, the wife got me this Edwin
: Jagger pewter bowl; it's made in Sheffield
: and I used it with both soaps and creams;
: usually it had a puck of soap in it,
: recently it was Arko.
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: Modern pewter is tin over copper.
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: When the Arko looked like it had a green
: tinge to it, I pried it out of the puck and
: I noticed that there was an area where the
: the tin was gone, the copper was exposed,
: and the resulting mix with the soap was
: forming a nice blue/green tarnish that had
: actually worked its way into the soap, the
: bottom was lime colored.
:
: I have not scratched this mug, it must have
: worn out; I have only used it with a brush;
: so much for passing it on to the next
: generation!
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