New Spin
In the days when recruits to the Royal Navy were paid a signing-on bounty of one shilling, press gangs of unscrupulous recruiting officers tricked men into committing themselves to service by passing the coin to them in a tankard of ale. By drinking the ale, the victim was then deemed to have struck a bargain by having accepted the King's shilling. To protect innocent men from being bamboozled into joining the King's Navy, in the 18th century they invented the glass-bottomed tankard so that a man could spot the hidden danger as soon as he raised it to his lips.
The glass-bottomed tankard is the inspiration for this new range of tableware that combines patterned bone-china or jewel-coloured glass centres with spun pewter rims.
Through development with Wentworth Pewter we felt that the traditional skills of the English pewter maker should be celebrated; the use of over-sized touchmarks on the rims and sides of all pieces illustrates the provenance of the ware from Sheffield - the heart of pewter manufacture in the UK.
The bone china centres are made and decorated in Stoke-on-Trent, the glass is sourced in Liverpool.
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