10 Ans | 10 Years Clothes Peg Paper Weight, Handmade, in Fine Pewter, By William Sturt

Price £14.00 from Etsy UK

This Fine Pewter peg actually works & can be used as a paperweight or to keep papers together. Of course you could use it for hanging out your washing too! It has been hand cast & hand finished by William Sturt, who has been handcrafting wonderful pewter gifts for twenty years. Every item we sell is handcrafted by William in his converted barn, occasionally helped but mostly hindered by his lurchers. We use exclusively eco-friendly Britannia Pewter which is 92% tin, 6% antinomy & 2% copper & has been the premium pewter mix since 1769 when it was discovered by James Vickers. It is of course lead & nickel free, food friendly & hypo allergenic. Many of our pieces make wonderful wedding or 10th (tin) wedding anniversary gifts & you have the reassurance that we guarantee them for life. Although our highly polished pewter looks like silver, it doesn’t tarnish like silver & if it dulls, it can be cleaned with soapy water & dried with a soft cloth. When William makes a new piece, he first carves a master in wax then builds a silicone mould. Once a cavity has formed around the original piece, the hard part begins. Tiny ducts are cut into the mould to allow moulten pewter to flow into each cavity, & air to escape during casting. The correct placement of these ducts is crucial. Once William is happy with a mould he will spend an hour or two testing & adjusting it, then he start casting & the pieces produced are left to cool then cleaned up by hand to remove any roughness from the casting. The next step is to polish, dry & inspect each piece; box it & send it off to its lucky new owner. 10 Ans | 10 Years Clothes Peg Paper Weight, Handmade, in Fine Pewter, By William Sturt

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