Subject: Pinchbeck

From: [email-masked] (Mal Goris)
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1993 06:22:09 GMT

Has anyone heard of pinchbeck? I have been reading Far from the
Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy in which he refers to it (chapter 22).
The footnotes describe it as a cheap alloy made up of five parts
copper and one of zinc which looks like gold. It was named after
Christopher Pinchbeck, a watchmaker who died in 1732.

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Mal Goris
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