Britannia metal

The 8 -pound statuettes are Britannia metal plated with gold.

Altar breadboxes are made of wood, tin, britannia metal, silver, or other metal.

But they're Britannia metal."

Britannia metal, every spoon."

Britannia metal should be distinguished from Britannia silver, a high-grade alloy of silver.

Britannia metal is also called Britannia Ware.

Britannia metal (approx.

Britannia metal or britannium is a pewter-type alloy favoured for its silvery appearance and smooth surface.

In the late 18th century, Britannia metal, a pewter-based alloy similar in appearance to silver, was invented in the town.

After the development of electroplating with silver in 1846, Britannia metal was widely used as the base metal for silver plated household goods and cutlery.

The abbreviation EPBM on such items denotes "electroplated Britannia metal".

Britannia metal was generally used as a cheaper alternative to electroplated nickel silver (EPNS) which is more durable.

Dixon was part owner of the Britannia metal manufacturing company James Dixon & Sons of Cornish Place.

The building was formerly the factory of James Dixon & Sons, a Britannia metal, Sheffield plate and Cutlery manufacturer.

It is a gabled house built in the 1850s for Thomas Fisher, a partner in the Britannia metal company of Shaw and Fisher.

Queen's Metal, an alloy of nine parts tin and one each of antimony, lead, and bismuth, is intermediate in hardness between pewter and britannia metal.

The "Cornish" in the buildings name is thought to derive from the manufacture of Britannia metal which is made up of 93% tin which came from Cornwall.

From the last quarter of the 18th century, improvement in alloys (e.g. britannia metal) and techniques allowed objects to be made from pewter by stamping and spinning.

Traddles, exactly the same simple, unaffected fellow as he ever was, sits at the foot of the large table like a Patriarch; and Sophy beams upon him, from the head, across a cheerful space that is certainly not glittering with Britannia metal.

It touched up the cruet-stand and the Britannia metal in the little dining-room at the Green Man and an emaciated ray even found its way to the rows of bottles in the bar and to the anvil at Copse Forge.

Thomas Yates large format catalog of 1870 has a fancy cover " Crown & Britannia Metal, Spoons & Ladles, soap & dressing, case boxes, Railway Whistles, Dog calls and a large variety of other articles "

Dixon manufactured whistles of Sterling Silver, German silver (also known as nickel silver), gun metal, Britannia metal, ivory, and horn, often using cocoa wood for fipples, A unique feature by which their round pea whistles can be identified.