House and Garden 
MR. WALTER CHURCHEr’s COLLECTION OF PEWTER 
as well at this point to say something more 
definite about the composition of pewter, 
which, with tin as the base of it, is a com¬ 
pound of two or more metals. Thus lead 
makes for softness, giving us solder when 
the proportions of tin and lead are equal, 
whereas ten per cent, of it in pewter was 
usual, while in pewter of finer quality, omit¬ 
ting the lead altogether, there would be a 
little brass, copper, bismuth or antimony. 
There is no fixed rule about this. The 
modern makers are after what would be 
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