Robin came close !!!!!!!!! ( Robin's answer is below) yes POISON from LEAD a BASE METAL........ .and the answer is with lead heads and worms used in distilling liquors........good job Robin . Again, the exact reason I am doing this is just like Robin says....................... <<snip<<<to make you some real thinking and research . It helps us use your heads and think..........how to use your knowledge...............to get correct assumptions>>snip>> Does the list want more questions like this ? How about some of you throwing out questions for us ?(just make sure you have the answer) thanks Robin ! Cynthia Moderator of : Ct-River-Valley-L@rootsweb.com VTWindso-L@rootsweb.com CTHartfo-L@rootsweb.com From: Rob Forrest <rforrest@robforrest.com> To: <CT-RIVER-VALLEY-L@rootsweb.com> > I believe it has to do with Pewter dish ware some how but today we know that > this is poisness and we no longer use lead dishware so was the assay master to > make sure not to much lead was used it this dish ware as I do know that it was > some times traded for other goods. this is basically a guess from what was > said so far. I like these questions that make us do some real thinking and > research it helps us to be able to use our heads and think so we can learn not > only about the subjects of the questions but to learn to use the knowledge we > have to put the pieces of our family puzzles together and get the correct > assumptions. > Also not I deleted all of the trailers so that the answere to my inquiry would > not be so large. > > Robin Forrest > rforrest@robforrest.com > NEW SITE URL for Robin's Genealogy Page is http://www.robforrest.com > <a href="http://www.robforrest.com">New Page URL</a> > > > > > ==== CT-RIVER-VALLEY Mailing List ==== > Conn.River Valley Genealogical Research Library: http://www.quadrangle.org (genealogical library for Conn River area) > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/CT-RIVER-VALLEY-L > Listowner: Cynthia cyndylou3@earthlink.net > > ============================== > Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. > RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > >