pewter

The silver, pewter and brass items were taken from the 16th Century manor house at Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire, on 30 July.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

The person who catches the biggest fish goes home with an engraved pewter cup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

There was a claw-foot tub with pewter fixtures, a charmingly messy bookshelf window-seat, a kitchen painted a cool green.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024

The photographs are made using heliography — “sun writing,” a term coined by 19th century French photography pioneer Nicéphore Niépce — a technique akin to etching with light-sensitive materials on reflective pewter plates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

“That’s the rule with soldiers. Take the good pewter out to the barn and hide it in the hay.”

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

One of the houses bore a bush, and I saw two men peering at us through the open window, pewters in hand.

From The Maid-At-Arms by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Thereupon Sally put on her bonnet, leaving her pewters half scoured, and ran rather than walked to the village.

From The Story of Kennett by Bayard Taylor

One is reminded of Phil May's publican, who took the theft of his pewters philosophically, but was moved to strong protest when the thief brought them back in the form of bad half-crowns.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 16, 1920 by Various

"Oh, Carus, they sang it and sang it, hammering their pewters together, and roaring the chorus, and that last dreadful verse: "'Where is the soul of you, John O'Bail, Where is the soul you slew?

From The Reckoning by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

I go in in the scratch fours for the pewters, and—more by token—my crew won them two years running.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes