G’day; My father kept a pub in the East End of London (Stratford)
and when I was very young he still had pewter mugs in pint and half
pint sizes. I can just remember the old potman taking all the
pewter pots out to the shed where he scrubbed and washed them in hot
water with very fine white silver sand, and my father insisted that
those pots must shine like silver! I got into trouble for playing
with the sand. When? I would have been about 4, so that would be
1925! I imagine that if the pewter pots of today became tarnished, a
good rub with a good silver polish like Goddard’s would do the job.
Cheers for now,
John Burgess; @John_Burgess2 of Mapua, Nelson NZ