Whether you have pewter home accents, serveware or jewelry passed down from family members or thrifted from the antique store, the pieces are true works of art with their shiny metallic appearance and ...

Back when I first got involved in collecting, almost everyone I knew was searching for early pewter items; everything from charger plates to tankards and spoons. Prices were high for these newly “in” ...

While the wealthy in the past favored more precious materials, pewter is making its way into high-end design studios and boutiques. By Misty White Sidell It was once called the poor man’s silver. Now, ...

In his wonderful book "The Connecticut," Walter Hard tells of the development of trade along the Connecticut River by the American colonists. In one chapter he describes itinerant peddlers with ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The soft, silvery glow of pewter has graced homes since the Bronze Age. Everyone from the Pharaohs to the ...

“I was brought up thinking pewter was better than gold,” says Madeleine Asplund Klingstedt, the Stockholm-based interior designer behind the Swedish Grace-inspired Ställe Studios, a design-led ...

Over on Hackaday.io, [bms.had] is showing his technique for 3D printing molds that he uses to cast (lead-free) pewter objects. The process looks simple enough, and if you have a 3D printer, you only ...

Pewter was once the favourite metal of Romans and Egyptians but has since passed into relative obscurity over the last millennium. Ancient societies favoured it for its malleable nature, and they used ...