We hung out with our co-workers quite a bit this weekend and one thing we did together was visit the Royal Selangor Pewter factory. Apparently this company makes some of the best and most famous pewter crafts in the world. We were expecting a hot humid factory, but instead it was a state-of-the-art museum/learning center, factory, and gift shop all rolled into one- and it was all air-conditioned!
Drinking complimentary Sprite from a pewter cup (pewter is heavy!)
Getting hands on experience at 'hammering' pewter...
These creatures are actually old pewter money! Apparently before coins they used animal-shaped pewter as currency here... the bigger the animal, the more money you had...
And a replica of the twin-towers made from pewter tankards...it was HUGE!
This is the World's Largest Tankard- the sign to the left of it (out of the frame, sorry) is the "certification" from the Guiness Book of World Records... I would have thought some town in Germany would be the home to that record!
Drinking complimentary Sprite from a pewter cup (pewter is heavy!)
Getting hands on experience at 'hammering' pewter...
These creatures are actually old pewter money! Apparently before coins they used animal-shaped pewter as currency here... the bigger the animal, the more money you had...
And a replica of the twin-towers made from pewter tankards...it was HUGE!
This is the World's Largest Tankard- the sign to the left of it (out of the frame, sorry) is the "certification" from the Guiness Book of World Records... I would have thought some town in Germany would be the home to that record!
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Fun - that looks like fun! :) Could you climb up inside that big Tankard? - If so, you could totally win at hide and seek
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