Dear Faldage: Same in my dictionary. I just despise peyoowey pewter. My grandmother had a large colection of it. My father would not allow its being used because of lead content. My mother made me polish it, because we had gas stove, and sulfur tarnished the pewter. When my mother died, my father just threw it away.

In a report similar to ours, Scarlett et al described lead poisoning in a married couple who ingested
non-alcoholic carbonated beverages from a pewter drinking mug.10 Traditional pewter mugs contain 25% lead and 75% tin, and are not recommended for food and drink containers. Highly toxic lead
concentrations may result from elution of lead from the pewter by the acidity of effervescent
non-alcoholic beverages.