jan 1, 1444 - hollow-ware

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Used of metal products such as bowls and pots, contrasted with flat-ware, that is plates, dishes and the like. A York ordinance of 1416, in French, referred to hollow-ware products as <i>tout le overaigne qest appele holghware</i>, and these were later said to include standard measures such as any <i>potell potte, quarte, et pynte</i> (SS120/212-3). In <i>c</i>.1430 the inventory of John Talkan of York listed <i>j flattpece</i> and <i>j holghpece</i> (SS45/87) and in 1444 a Beverley merchant bequeathed <i>j hollow bassyn</i> to Helen Brompton (SS30/102). More recently it was a term applied to pots, jugs and kettles, and in south Yorkshire the trade blossomed with the invention of Old Sheffield Plate.

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