[TheForge] Re: Old tinware question

[Mike Spencer]

Me:

    Some old tinware had a surface treatment with a greenish hue, not
    grass-green but vaguely like US army fatigues.  Pot covers,
    cupcake tins, cake pans.

PF:

    I would guess that they didn't have modern reservations about
    additions like lead and cadmium.  I recall cadmium was in a lot of
    the old marine galvanized coatings.



Eeeek!  But they've know not to eat cadmium for a long time heven't they?


- Mike

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