The Pewter Collector

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The main interest in pewter must be historical and archaeological, for its metallurgical side can be dismissed in a few sentences and will not interest the ordinary reader. The writer, in 1885, saw a round dish lying in the gutter in Bruges near a stall in the market-place, and as the dish had a crack in it, and its rim was rather badly battered, the writer became the owner of it by handing over to the dealer the sum of five francs…