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19-405: The pub has a distinctive silver beer stein on its overhead sign on the building's front. The establishment is also notable for being one of the few remaining with a dart board . Bartender John Martin has worked at the pub since the mid-1990s. Around that time, in 1994, the pub won the "Best Neighborhood Bar" award from Best of Boston . "Sunday through Friday, it's a locals bar. Saturdays are for

38-631: A darker, silver-gray color. Pewters containing lead are no longer used in items that will come in contact with the human body (such as cups, plates, or jewelry), due to the toxicity of lead . Modern pewters are available that are completely free of lead, although many pewters containing lead are still being produced for other purposes. A typical European casting alloy contains 94% tin, 1% copper and 5% antimony . A European pewter sheet would contain 92% tin, 2% copper, and 6% antimony. Asian pewter, produced mostly in Malaysia , Singapore , and Thailand , contains

57-466: A decline in the use of pewter flatware. At the same time, production increased of both cast and spun pewter tea sets, whale-oil lamps, candlesticks, and so on. Later in the century, pewter alloys were often used as a base metal for silver-plated objects. In the late 19th century, pewter came back into fashion with the revival of medieval objects for decoration. New replicas of medieval pewter objects were created, and collected for decoration. Today, pewter

76-446: A higher percentage of tin, usually 97.5% tin, 1% copper, and 1.5% antimony. This makes the alloy slightly softer. The term Mexican pewter is used for any of various alloys of aluminium that are used for decorative items. Pewter is also used to imitate platinum in costume jewelry. Pewter, being a softer material, can be manipulated in various ways such as being cast , hammered, turned , spun and engraved . Given that pewter

95-483: A stein fabricator could use molds to make "character steins", steins that had a particular shape modeled after an item or collecting antique and replicated beer steins became a very popular hobby not only among individual people, but in museums as well. Production of beer steins has become substantial in America, but the largest producer of beer steins is Ceramarte of Brazil. The most traditional area of beer stein production

114-594: A thumb- lever . Steins usually come in sizes of a half litre or a full litre (or comparable historic sizes). Like decorative tankards , they are often decorated in a nostalgic manner with allusions to Germany . The English word is attested from 1855. It is borrowed from German Stein , which has – aside from its prevailing meaning "stone" – elder regional meanings "beer mug" and "beer measure of 1 litre or 2 Schoppen". The word can be compared to English stean "stone or earthen vessel", and Old English stæne "pitcher, jug". The word Stein alone

133-582: Is either a traditional beer mug made out of stoneware or specifically an ornamental beer mug sold as a souvenir or collectible . An 1894 article on beer mugs in the American Vogue magazine that describes various types of steins stated: "And it is to this [i.e. German] nation that we owe Wagner 's music and the apotheosis of the beer mug." Such steins may be made out of stoneware , pewter , porcelain or even silver , wood or crystal glass ; they may have open tops or hinged pewter lids with

152-535: Is not used any more to refer to a beverage container in standard German; rather, Krug , Humpen or, especially in Bavaria and Austria, Seidel are used. Oktoberfest usage is Maßkrug . It is believed by some that the hinged lid was implemented during the age of the Black Plague to prevent diseased flies from getting into the beer. This is unlikely to be true, as contemporaries did not know flies spread

171-407: Is rare. Lidless mugs and lidded tankards may be the most familiar pewter artifacts from the late 17th and 18th centuries, although the metal was also used for many other items including porringers (shallow bowls), plates, dishes, basins, spoons, measures, flagons, communion cups, teapots, sugar bowls, beer steins (tankards), and cream jugs. In the early 19th century, changes in fashion caused

190-788: Is the Kannenbäckerland in the Westerwald region in Germany. This unique German potters region has been creating beer steins for centuries and is famous among the collectors as the original German beer stein producer. Beer steins were made primarily with pewter in many areas across Europe (primarily in England), but many steins were known to be made of glass , porcelain , and silver as well. Steins have also been known to have been made out of wood, earthenware, and crystal. Ordinary German beer mugs have been made out of glass for hygienic reasons since

209-562: Is used in decorative objects, mainly collectible statuettes and figurines, game figures, aircraft and other models, (replica) coins, pendants, plated jewellery and so on. Certain athletic contests, such as the United States Figure Skating Championships , award pewter medals to fourth-place finishers. In antiquity, pewter was tin alloyed with lead and sometimes also copper . Older pewters with higher lead content are heavier, tarnish faster, and their oxidation has

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228-432: The 18th and 19th centuries. Pewter was the chief material for producing plates, cups, and bowls until the making of porcelain . Mass production of pottery, porcelain and glass products have almost universally replaced pewter in daily life, although pewter artifacts continue to be produced, mainly as decorative or specialty items. Pewter was also used around East Asia . Although some items still exist, ancient Roman pewter

247-570: The Marienplatz Rathaus-Glockenspiel of Munich, and the colorful official annual Oktoberfest souvenir mug featuring the year's winning poster design. The use of beer mugs is uncommon in most parts of Northern and Central Germany, and in these regions considered a Bavarian specialty. Pewter Pewter ( / ˈ p juː t ər / ) is a malleable metal alloy consisting of tin (85–99%), antimony (approximately 5–10%), copper (2%), bismuth , and sometimes silver . In

266-762: The beginning of the Bronze Age in the Near East . The earliest known piece of pewter was found in an Egyptian tomb, c.  1450 BC , but it is unlikely that this was the first use of the material. Pewter was used for decorative metal items and tableware in ancient times by the Egyptians and later the Romans, and came into extensive use in Europe from the Middle Ages until the various developments in pottery and glass-making during

285-406: The disease. Instead, the prevailing belief was that it was spread through dangerous " miasmas ". The advantage in using stoneware to make steins was that molds could be used to mass-produce elaborately carved steins. On the other hand, glass had the advantage that one could add an artistic touch by including acid etchings, glass staining, or even multicolored overlays. Porcelain's advantage was that

304-605: The introduction of glass mugs to the 1892 Oktoberfest . Modern beer mugs, except again decorative or luxury versions, do not have a lid. Beer mugs (0.5 and 1 litre) are typical for beer gardens and especially the Oktoberfest, where they are popular for their robustness. In other settings, 0.33 and 0.5 litre beer glasses are also popular. Attempts to replace beer mugs made from glass or earthenware by ones made from plastic (for security reasons) have been variously met with protests, even burnings of mugs and were never successful in

323-589: The long or even medium term in Germany. The lids on beer mugs serve as a sanitary measure, especially to keep insects out of the beer. They are usually made out of pewter , and are usually equipped with a lever that is in reach of the thumb, so that it is possible to grab the mug and open and close the lid with a single hand. These days beer mats are usually used to cover the glass or mug when required. In German-speaking regions beer mugs may be known as: Considered collectible are traditional designs such as brewery emblems, Bavarian motifs such as Neuschwanstein or

342-404: The past it was an alloy of tin and lead , but most modern pewter, in order to prevent lead poisoning , is not made with lead. Pewter has a low melting point , around 170–230 °C (338–446 °F), depending on the exact mixture of metals. The word pewter is possibly a variation of " spelter ", a term for zinc alloys (originally a colloquial name for zinc). Pewter was first used around

361-641: The tourists," Martin said in 2021. Harpoon Brewery brews a "Sevens Ale" specifically for the pub. Sevens Ale House was one of the brewery's first two accounts upon its foundation in 1986. On June 2, 2017, Harrison Ford visited the pub, which is part of the Beacon Hill Business Association. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the business was closed for the 15-month period between March 2020 and June 2021. Beer stein A beer stein ( / ˈ s t aɪ n / STYNE ), or simply stein ,

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