1 This is the sole surviving "touch" or mark of an American pewterer of the 17th century.
2 Mr. Burgham, the pewterer , is credulous, and, from some whimsical caprice in his nature, is attached to heraldic honours.
3 There is a pewterer , one Cleeve, who some time ago gave one thousand pounds for four very small Dutch pictures.
4 One of these, "The Tournament," described a joust in which figured one Sir Johan de Berghamme, a presumable ancestor of the gratified pewterer .
5 Going home, called at my Lord's for Mr. Sheply, but found him at the Lion with a pewterer , that he had bought pewter to-day of.
6 Thence to Tom's about business, and so to the pewterer 's , to buy a poore's-box to put my forfeits in, upon breach of my late vows.
7 Six of these are regular tea-manufacturers; the other two are pewterers , whose sole business is that of preparing lead casings for tea-chests.
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