This beautifully constructed pewter cocktail shaker is reminiscent of the era before, during and just after the Prohibition. It isn’t widely known that pewter is actually an alloy, it’s a mixture of 85% to 99% tin, with added copper, antimony and bismuth. The alloy dates back to pre-history with examples of it being found in the early Bronze Age, the earliest pewter ever found was from an Egyptian tomb and was dated to 1450BC.
The pewter used to create this cocktail shaker is 95% tin, meaning it’s almost entirely safe from corrosion, each shaker is made by Match in Italy and will make a hell of a cool family heirloom when your gin martini days are behind you.
Articles that Ben Branch has written have been covered on CNN, Popular Mechanics, Smithsonian Magazine, Road & Track Magazine, the official Pinterest blog, the official eBay Motors blog, BuzzFeed, Autoweek Magazine, Wired Magazine, Autoblog, Gear Patrol, Jalopnik, The Verge, and many more.
Silodrome was founded by Ben back in 2010, in the years since the site has grown to become a world leader in the alternative and vintage motoring sector, with well over a million monthly readers from around the world and many hundreds of thousands of followers on social media.
