• 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...
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  • Pewter (/ˈpjuːtər/) is a malleable metal alloy consisting of tin (85–99%), antimony (approximately 5–10%), copper (2%), bismuth, and sometimes silver....
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    metal (also called britannium or Britannia ware) is a specific type of pewter alloy, favoured for its silvery appearance and smooth surface. The composition...
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    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...
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    Ghia's body panels were butt-welded, hand-shaped, and smoothed with English pewter in a time-consuming process commensurate with higher-end manufacturers...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    Vietnamese: tích trượng; "tin stick"), sometimes referred to in English as a pewter staff, is a staff topped with metal rings traditionally carried by...
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    Beer stein (category Articles containing Old English (ca. 450-1100)-language text)
    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...
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    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...
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  • Bourchier Cleeve (category Pewterers)
    (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...
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  • Thomas Curtis (lord mayor) (category Pewterers)
    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...
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  • 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...
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  • and bismuth, is intermediate in hardness between pewter and britannia metal. It was developed by English pewtersmiths in the 16th century; the recipe was...
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  • range of goods, including decorative ironwork and early clocks. Pewter-working, using English tin and lead, was also widespread in London during the period...
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  • 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...
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    Tampa Bay Buccaneers (category Use American English from November 2023)
    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...
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  • Svenskt Tenn [English: Swedish Pewter] is a Swedish interior design store, founded in 1924 in Stockholm by Estrid Ericson, an art teacher and pewter artist from...
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  • Frontier. Along the way, they are joined by Brock, the former leader of the Pewter City Gym (and old friend), as well as the Pokémon coordinator May and her...
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    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...
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    France in August. When the Mary Rose was raised nearly 450 years later, pewter plates stamped with "G.C.", Carew's initials, were among the artifacts recovered...
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    associated with the art he perfected, the inlay of tortoiseshell, brass and pewter into ebony. It has become known as Boulle work, and the École Boulle (founded...
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  • List of RAL colours (category Use British English from March 2022)
    30% 35% 0 71 122 H270L30C35 Prince Blue 270° 30% 40% 0 72 131 H270L30C40 Pewter Grey 270° 40% 15% 79 95 118 H270L40C15 Parlour Blue 270° 40% 20% 70 95 126...
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    Bretforton (category Use British English from December 2011)
    this account is not true, it is an example of 17th century Jacobean English Pewter ware. Although of earlier, medieval origin, the gabled manor house,...
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    leveling it. The boxes may be made of tin, which is less expensive than pewter. They are generally sold small enough to make single ices, but these are...
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  • 1°26′46″W / 53.39166°N 1.44618°W / 53.39166; -1.44618 (BROWN-FIRTH LABORATORIES, NOW ENGLISH PEWTER COMPANY) Blackmore Street Early 20th century II...
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  • 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...
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    Rose Pewter tankard Glass tankard In the United Kingdom, draught beer must be sold in Imperial measure (see Pint § Effects of metrication). English, Scottish...
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  • competition. Along the way, they are joined by Brock, the former leader of the Pewter City Gym, and the Pokémon Coordinator May and her brother, Max, as May competes...
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  • owned by Nintendo. In the Pokémon video games, he is the Gym Leader of Pewter City in the Kanto region and mainly uses Rock-type Pokémon. In the anime...
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