Beer mug

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Beer mug

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Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This pewter beer mug, of quart capacity, is believed by his descendants to have belonged to Captain Jacky Guard. 'A law unto himself in a lawless land,' Guard was a whaler and trader who established a whaling station at Kakapo Bay in the early 1830s (Grady, 29). Pewter ware Pewter is an alloy of tin, copper, antimony, bismuth and, historically, lead. The manufacture of pewter ware expanded in Europe from the fourteenth century, although the use of the alloy dates back at least two thousand y...

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Image

Date created

circa 1800

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/65846

Related subjects

pewter / mugs / drinking vessels / tankards / England / Guard family / Captain Jacky Guard

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