was never very good at the best of times! :)
I will have to think who to ask abut this.
- Original Message -
From: Clay Blackwell clayblackw...@comcast.net
To: Brian Lemin br...@exemail.com.au
Cc: lace@arachne.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: [lace] Old
Although pewter degradation is often talked of in Human terms, I am pretty
sure it is not catching! It is a chemical process that starts when the
pewter gets to certain temperature (I wrote an article about it many years
ago but I have forgotten the details!... old age!)
I do remember the
Since writing to you about this, I remembered that the 'warning' I had
in my head came from David Springett who said that rotten pewter was
pewter which had too much tin in it, and that a bad bobbin could damage
a good one.
Clay
Brian Lemin wrote:
Although pewter degradation is often talked
