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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 40425, member: 25"]Certainly pewter, probably pre-WW1. No marks at all?</p><p><br /></p><p><i>I'm not sure you'd want an open flame under a pewter pot??</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Fill a paper bag with water and place it over a flame. The water will boil. It's physics, the paper never gets hot enough to burn. The water conducts away the heat faster than it can build up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Aluminium was not used for housewares till after the 1920s or 30's. It was the use of the material in large quantities for flying machines that brought the cost down.</p><p><br /></p><p>The handle may well be a phenolic resin of the Bakelite family.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 40425, member: 25"]Certainly pewter, probably pre-WW1. No marks at all? [I]I'm not sure you'd want an open flame under a pewter pot??[/I] Fill a paper bag with water and place it over a flame. The water will boil. It's physics, the paper never gets hot enough to burn. The water conducts away the heat faster than it can build up. Aluminium was not used for housewares till after the 1920s or 30's. It was the use of the material in large quantities for flying machines that brought the cost down. The handle may well be a phenolic resin of the Bakelite family.[/QUOTE]
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