pewter

• If you have to clean pewter, and I recommend that you don't, please put it in a simple hay bath – three pints of chopped hay into a big metal pan. —  process 10
• Two old-fashioned silver table-spoons, supposed to be Spanish, and a pewter wash-basin were purchased from the Indians. —  The Life of Captain James Cook
• Tarnished by a patina redolent of burnished pewter, the full-length looking glass was crisscrossed with meandering fissures erupting from a pox of rust stains, symbolically a mirror of the tort inflicted on her body by the arrow of time. —  Brit Lit Blogs
• In this instance the knife was iron and the spoon pewter, the plate a wooden trencher (never changed), and the drinking-cup of horn. —  A Forgotten Hero Not for Him
• Pewter is a metal never seen for modern table furnishing, or domestic use in any form to-day; but in colonial times what was called a garnish of pewter, that is, a full set of pewter platters, plates, and dishes, was the pride of every good housekeeper, and also a favorite wedding gift. —  Home Life in Colonial Days

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