Word: pewter
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...privateered Heppelwhite and pewter...
...HOUSEWARES: Old French decanters ($7 up), chafing dishes (from $15), wine racks (from $10), English pewter, Danish salad bowls and cheese boards. There are plenty of electrical gadgets for pushbutton minds; electric can openers and knife sharpeners (around $29.95), bun warmers ($9.95), silver polishers ($29.95), even electric pepper mills...
...aloof as Kipling's cat. With arrogant contempt for trends, Gump's eight years ago sold its only two branch stores (in Honolulu and Carmel, Calif.), and the nearest thing to a loss leader a Gump's customer can expect to find is a pair of pewter and brass candlesticks reduced from $250 to $125. Yet in a little more than a decade, Gump's sales have almost doubled, last year approached $4,000,000, with profits before taxes running a comfortable 6% of gross...
...Henry O. Havemeyers, whose multimillion-dollar collection of old masters was left to the Metropolitan Museum. Her parents were baffled when Electra got interested in Americana, and at 18 collected her first item: a $25 cigar-store Indian. As her daughter's stockpile of Early American dolls, quilts, pewter, decoys and trade signs grew, Mrs. Havemeyer asked in exasperation: "How can anyone who has been brought up with Rembrandts and Manets live with such American trash...
...usual, Yoben held his fire. "I am a man to whom the love of woman is forbidden," this stern gypsy tinker had told Froniga, and try as she would to penetrate his enigma with darts from "her long-tailed dark eyes," Yoben was mute and cold as old pewter...