030r - - - - - Lead
The best, fattest & softest is brought from Germany and is not in saulmon, but in lattes, of around an arm long & three fingers wide. It is transported to Lyon, and from this, the leaf is made for small mirrors in Nuremberg.
Pewterer
They also make their molds out of metal which last longer & mold more cleanly than grais, because the vessel comes out without fins & smooth. But this is for the rich because a mold costs fifteen or sixteen frans. They are mainly made of metal, for basins & ewers & salt cellars & similar things which are fashioned.
For pints, molds are made with white clay mixed with horse dung & cloth waste & well beaten, because the pints, being deep half—circles, would not easily release from the grais mould, unlike the earth ones, which are soft. One makes the noyau of the mold of the said pints in grais.
In metal molds, one makes vents and casts all at once, which is the cause that in the middle of the dish, no smoky black line which comes from the vapor & smoke of the metal that is cast, which is the cause that in that spot, the work is lumpy & very often pierced. However they repair it with soldering du n, as is said. This smoke is made right in the middle of the cast, & in molds of grais.
The vessel can be hammered mar to make it more vendable. But it will not last as long.
Depending on the size of their dishes & plates, they have notches on the spoke of their iron wheels. And when they want to apply
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