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"Pewter or "tin" cups for drinking ale were in common use in England by about 1347. The purity of the vessels or cups depended on the wealth of the owners.
In London, the early existence of a Company of Pewterers is proved by a reference in 1347 to the will of Nicholas le Peautrer, who mentions this Corporation; and in the fifteenth century, York was the principal town in the North of England for the manufacture of pewter; further, it is recorded that in 1419 the regulations of the York Pewterers were formulated. About the middle of the fifteenth century it would appear that the Gild of Pewterers of London had a religious turn of mind, for they referred to their gild as the Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Assumption of the Pewterer's Craft, and in the year 1473, King Edward IV conferred upon them the formal Charter of Corporation. Their seal bearing ye ymage of the assumption of our blessed ladye gravyn theryn of silver. Pewter, pewtre, peautre, pewdre, pewder, pewtir, or peuther as it is variously spelt with delightful inconsistency in old documents, is one of the few artificial compositions from which drinking vessels have been made is thoroughly English. The original word was spelter, then the Dutch borrowed it and changed it to "peauter, the French made it peutre, the Spanish peltre" and the Italians peltro" It was made from lead and tin.. with an occasional mixture of copper or silver. The proportion of these metals ranged from 71.8 % of tin and 28.2 % of lead, to 78.3 % of tin and 27.7 % lead. On analysis of some old pewter we roughly find the following proportions, 80 %. of tin, 5 % lead, 7 % antimony, 5 % copper and 3 % silver, and another sample of poor quality pewter, 56 parts of tin, 8 of lead, 6 of copper, and 2 of zinc.
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Metal cups go back to ancient Sumeria, about 4000 years; the tin cup is a by product of a drinking cup that first fit canteens in WWI. But similar white porcelain covered cups were in use since the early 1800's.
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