pinchbeck

1) An alloy of copper and zinc which resembles gold.

1771 my metal or pinch back watch, Slaidburn. The alloy was invented by Christopher Pinchbeck, a London clock and toy maker, whose surname derives from a village in Lincolnshire.

places Slaidburn
dates 1771

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