While it is not as common as iron or steel, pewter is an alloy made of tin and lead. This alloy has been used to create decorative objects andcontainersfor a long time. Unfortunately, it is one of the first metals affected by radioactivity. ...
coated in copper, then electroplated with silver, its still fine (because pewter doesn't tarnish, so the tarnish is either silver or copper) but I wouldn't eat anything acidic with it, because it'll leech lead into your food.