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The pewter is those who work with pewter, an alloy composed mainly of tin with the addition of other metals. Lead has now been banned for toxicity. It is used to create artistic objects, jewelry, trophies, trays, plates, saucers and more. Pewter is an ancient material that was produced by casting a tin alloy into engraved iron or brass shapes, and then working it with the corrosion and hammering technique to obtain the shapes of the artisan tradition. Today it is hot worked in cast iron, earth or silicone rubber molds and then hand-finished by hand, or molded into plates and worked on the lathe, but always using purely artisan techniques. Sometimes this material is still used for the manufacture of organ pipes. With the Middle Ages there is the real turning point in the history of pewter thanks to the birth of the guilds of arts and crafts. In many cities in Germany and in other European countries artisan communities of tin smelters are born and in 1285 there is the first official mention of the Nuremberg smelters. In this period the art of the smelter gained esteem and consideration. In Italy, The stories of pewter and Venice merged in the twelfth century, as evidenced by statutes and regulations governing the relationships between individual producers, gathering them in the guild of pewter, certainly one of the most important in Europe. The mass of tin, with its qualities of malleability and easy melting, must be bound to modest quantities of other metals to gain strength. Recent regulations restrict or prohibit the