Pewterer's Temper
Tin 2 and copper 1, fused together, make the alloy above named. This temper, mixed in certain proportions with pig tin, produces the pewter named "tin-and-temper." See PEWTER; TIN.
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Tin 2 and copper 1, fused together, make the alloy above named. This temper, mixed in certain proportions with pig tin, produces the pewter named "tin-and-temper." See PEWTER; TIN.