A porringer is a small dish from which European ethnic groups European s and Thirteen Colonies colonial Americans ate their gruel or porridge , or other soft foods http www.collectorsweekly.com articles evolution of new york silver porringer handles . Porringers were shallow bowls, between 4 to 6 in diameter, and 1 to 3 deep the form originates in the medieval period in Europe and they were made in wood, ceramic, pewter and silver . They had flat, horizontal handles, Colonial porringers tended to have one handle whereas European ones tend to have two handles on opposite sides. http www.collectorsweekly.com articles evolution of new york silver porringer handles , on which the owner s initials were sometimes engraved, and they occasionally came with a lid Citation needed reason I ve never seen a European porringer with lid is this a colonial thing? date January 2011 . Porringers resembled the smaller quaich , a Scottish drinking vessel. Original porringers are uncommon especially those made in America prior to the American Revolution because, when there became a shortage of lead for making bullets, the Americans and the British are said to have raided the nearby kitchens of all their pewterware, which was thought to be soft enough to use for their purposes. Citation needed date April 2010 One can discern authentic pewter porringers in much the same way that silver can be authenticated from the touch marks that were stamped either into the bowl of the porringer or on its base. Wooden porringers are occasionally found from excavations eg 16th C example from Southwark and 11th C ... for the Christening of a child. A second, modern usage, for the term porringer is a double saucepan ... objects 908 One handled Porringer picture from the Brooklyn Museum http www.learnnc.org lp multimedia 6818 Two handled Porringer picture from Learn NC http www.britannica.com EBchecked topic 470768 porringer Definition of porringer from Britannica online references Category Serving and dining cooking ... more details
Thomas Pengelly fl. c.1650 &ndash 6 January 1696 was a wealthy United Kingdom British merchant of the 17th century who traded with the Eastern Mediterranean and the Atlantic Seaboard . He owned property in the East End of London East End of London, as well as in Finchley and in Cheshunt in Hertfordshire . ref name ODNB David Lemmings, Pengelly, Sir Thomas 1675 1730 , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 online edn, Jan 2008 http www.oxforddnb.com view article 21837, accessed 6 Dec 2010 ref Pengelly married Rachel, the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Jeremy Baines, a Roundhead Parliamentary Officer during the English Civil War Civil War . Their son was to become the judge and Member of Parliament for Cockermouth Thomas Pengelly judge Sir Thomas Pengelly he was born in the family s property at Moorfields in 1675. By 1683 the family s home in Finchley had provided Lodger lodgings for the former The Protectorate Protector Richard Cromwell after the Restoration England Restoration of the Monarchy . On the death of Thomas Pengelly in 1696 Cromwell continued to lodge with Mrs Pengelly, moving with her to her property in Cheshunt in Hertfordshire in 1700 ref Peter Gaunt, Cromwell, Richard 1626 1712 , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 online edn, May 2008 http www.oxforddnb.com view article 6768, accessed 6 Dec 2010 ref , and remaining there until his own death in 1712. This arrangement created a rumour that the younger Thomas Pengelly was Richard Cromwell s illegitimate son. ref name ODNB References reflist External links http collections.vam.ac.uk item O103722 two handled cup pengelly porringer ?print 1 The Pengelly Porringer in The Victoria and Albert Museum Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Pengelly, Thomas ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1696 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Pengelly, Thomas Category English merchants Category 17th century Eng ... more details
for the computer program GrabIt Image grabit.jpg thumb right An original grabit. Image grabit tab.jpg thumb right A closeup of the underside of an original grabit tab, showing its uses and place of origin. Grabit s are microwave safe cookware easily identifiable by their tab handle. They were introduced by Corning Glass in the early 1970s, and are now sold in a slightly different form by World Kitchen. Grabits are notable in that they were some of the first cookware specifically designed for microwave use their design was recognized by the Smithsonian s Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum . http www.nationaldesignawards.org 2009 honoree smart design Grabits strongly resemble porringer s. They can be covered with a plastic lid, P 150 C, or a Pyrex clear glass lid, P 240 C. History Grabits were originally produced and sold by Corning Incorporated Corning Glassworks , and made from Corning s unique pyroceram material. When the Corning Visions line was introduced, Grabits made from Pyrex Visions glass were added to the product line. After World Kitchen bought Corning Glass in the early 1990s, Grabits began to be made of ceramic, and production was moved from the US to China. http www.corningware.com index.asp?pageId 99 Category Cookware and bakeware ... more details
visited Brinkley in order to attempt to sell a valuable silver porringer to List of Jeeves characters ... to convince Runkle to give Tuppy his due, has purloined the silver porringer he wished to sell to Tom. Bertie tries to set this aright by returning the porringer, but is caught, and has to secrete the object in his bureau drawer. While he muses on the four problems returning the porringer freeing ... s employ discovers the purloined porringer in Bertie s drawer, and Runkle accuses Bertie of the crime ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Hildebrand Tuppy Glossop is a fictional character appearing in some of P. G. Wodehouse Jeeves books. He is a member of the Drones Club and a good friend of Bertie Wooster . In Right Ho, Jeeves , we learn that Tuppy is of Scottish origin. Relationships Tuppy is engaged to Bertie s favourite cousin, Angela Travers . Jeeves has ruined Tuppy s relationships with the opera singer Cora Bellinger and the dog lover Miss Dalgleish in order to keep Tuppy with Angela, usually upon Angela s mother, Bertie s Aunt Dahlia Travers Dahlia s request. In Right Ho, Jeeves , Angela breaks their engagement because Tuppy disparages a shark that had attacked her while she was waterskiing aquaplaning in Cannes . Bertie makes an attempt to restore the status quo with disastrous results causing Jeeves to step in and restore their engagement with his normal brilliance. His uncle is Bertie s nemesis and later good friend Sir Roderick Glossop and his cousin is Bertie s ex fianc e Honoria Glossop . In the book Much Obliged, Jeeves , Angela and Tuppy haven t married after being two years engaged due to a lack of money on Tuppy s part. Angela s mother Dahlia takes it upon herself to do something about Tuppy s financial woes. She decides that L.P Runkle of Runkle Enterprises owes Tuppy money for Tuppy s late father s invention, a hangover remedy which allowed Runkle to rake in millions, while Tuppy s father did not make any profit on the invention. She subsequently attempts to extort the money from Runkle by pinching his porringer , although that had proved to be a bust. With Jeeves s brilliance and the Junior Ganymede Club book she manages to make Runkle cough up the money. Bertie reminisces quite frequently about a practical joke Tuppy played on him where one evening at the Drones Club, Tuppy dared Bertie to swing across the club swimming pool by means of the exercise rings. Bertie made quick work of the challenge only to discover that Tuppy had looped the last ring ... more details
Major Joseph Croshaw 1610 1667 was a substantial planter living near Williamsburg, Virginia Williamsburg in the United States US Colony and Dominion of Virginia . Biography Crowshaw was born in Elizabeth City County, Virginia , the son of Captain Raleigh Croshaw . He became a substantial planter and lived just a few miles from present day Williamsburg, Virginia . He served in the Colonial militia during the Indian massacre of 1622 massacre of 1622 . On December 10, 1651, he was listed as owning convert 1000 acre km2 in York County, Virginia . The land was on the South side of the York River Virginia , commonly known by the name of Poplar Neck, abutting North West upon the mouth of St. Andrews Creek, North East upon said River and South East upon Croshaw Desire Creek, dividing this from the land now in possession of his brother Richard Croshaw, South West along the Indian field upon the land of James Harris and West by North upon the land of Samuel Snead. In one of the rooms of his house, Joseph Croshaw of York had hung five pictures, whether portraits or landscapes it is impossible to discover from the inventory of his estate. Major Joseph Croshaw was listed as having eleven horses and seventy seven head of neat cattle in the inventory of 1657. The 1667 inventory listed Major Joseph Croshaw of York as the owner of forty sheep. The 1668 inventory of the estate of Major Joseph Croshaw included the following pewter objects two candlesticks, forty two dishes, four porringer s, thirty six spoons, one bedpan, and one still. Some of his flagon s, tankards, plates, saucers, salts, basins, and chamber pot s, although unspecified as to material, may also have been made of pewter. The inventory of 1668 also listed the Croshaw estate as having 1000 bricks manufactured either by their own servants or by transient laborers. It also listed a silver sack cup a silver tankard of the largest size, valued at four pounds sterling perhaps equal in purchasing power to a hundred dollars i ... more details
File Kremlin Armoury 1.JPG thumb right upright Silver goblet presented the Tsar of Russia by John III Sobieski King of Poland , 17th century, over 1m height. A silversmith is a Master craftsman craftsperson who makes objects from silver and or gold . The terms silversmith and goldsmith should not be treated as synonyms as the techniques, training, history, and guild s are or were largely the same but the end product varies greatly as does the scale of objects created. Silversmithing is the art of turning silver and gold sheetmetal into hollowware dish es, bowl vessel bowls , porringer s, cup s, vase s, ewer s, urn s, etc. , flatware fork s, spoon s, knife knives , etc. , and other articles of silver household Household silver . Tools, materials and techniques Image T&T Hand hammered dish.jpg thumb right Dish made by hand hammering. saw jeweler s saw . snips file s flat, half round, jewelers . hammers planishing, raising, cross peen, ball peen. anvil s wiktionary stake stakes swage block s riveting silver solder hard solder . flux borax , boric acid . torch , blow pipe . pickle dilute sulfuric acid to remove firescale . buffing wheel s and polishing compounds. chasing , repousse . engraving . Silversmiths saw or cut specific shapes from sterling and fine silver sheet metal and bar stock, and then use hammers to form the metal over anvils and stakes. Silver is hammered cold at room temperature . As the metal is hammered, bent, and worked, it work hardens . Annealing metallurgy Annealing is the heat treatment used to make the metal soft again. If metal is work hardened, and not annealed occasionally, the metal will crack and weaken the work. Silversmiths can use casting techniques to create knobs, handles and feet for the hollowware they are making. After forming and casting, the various pieces may be assembled by solder ing and rivet ing During most of their history, silversmiths used charcoal or Coke fuel coke fired forges , and lung powered blow pipe s for soldering ... more details
for the Olympic athlete Alice Arden athlete Alice Arden 1516 1551 was the daughter of John Brigantine and Alice Squire, who conspired to have her husband, Thomas Arden of Faversham , brutally murdered so she could carry on with a long term affair with a tailor, Richard Moseby. The murder took place on 14 February 1551. She was tried, convicted, and burnt at the stake for her part in the murder. Conspirators The murder was described by Raphael Holinshed and later had entries in both The Newgate Calendar and the Chambers Book of Days . Alice Brigantine married Thomas Arden on an unknown date. They made their home at Faversham Abbey , which had been dissolved in 1536. They had at least one daughter, Margaret, who was born in 1538. According to these accounts, Alice was young, tall, and well favoured of shape and countenance . She began an affair with a tailor, Richard Mosbye, and then she plotted to kill her husband. Thomas Arden was a private gentleman . His rival Mosbye or Mosbie was in the service of Edward North, 1st Baron North , before setting shop in London . ref name Chamber Chambers Book of Days Arden of Feversham ref ref name Newgate The Newgate Calendar Alice Arden of Feversham ref Mosbye frequented the house of the Ardens and the affair was carried rather openly. Thomas had to turn a blind eye, unwilling to sever relations with Alice s family. In time Alice came to loathe her husband and considered disposing of him. She made an early attempt on his life by poisoning him. She mixed milk and poison within a porringer , serving it to Thomas for breakfast. She had failed to account for the taste of the poison used. Thomas only took a spoonful or two before quitting his breakfast and complaining of its quality. ref name Newgate Alice had to find an accomplice for her further efforts. Holinshed simply mentions They employed as their confederates one John Green, a Faversham tailor George Bradshaw, a goldsmith of the same town and one Black Will, of Calyce Calais , ... more details
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