Tinsmith Museum of America

Jim Currens ran Olson’s Tinware. His Grandfather was a tinsmith and Jim inherited his tinner’s tools. Jim was known for making English D shaped mess kits. We have one of his with ca His website was Olson’s Tinware.

When you think of tinner’s stakes you don’t usually think of moving parts, but the boiler former stake does move. You can adjust the elastic arms to expand or contract to fit the size of the boiler. It was patented by Frederick Fellinger June 27, 1882. It fits into the tinners’ bench plate and the…

This item in collection has an interesting provenance. It was originally in the home of Asher Odenwelder, a collector of American folk art in the 1940’s and 50’s. It was later in the collection of Deerfield Village. Deerfield Village sold it off as part of a sampling of tinware to raise money for other items…

We had some tin snips on display at the EAIA meeting in the conference center at Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia. Visit http://www.eaia.us to find out where the next meeting will be.

From his website http://coppersmith-tinsmith.com/ Master metalsmith Michael P. Terragna has been working with copper and tin for over thirty-five years. As a sheet metal worker in the early 1970s, Michael spent his spare time teaching himself the tinsmithing trade in his grandmother’s basement. It wasn’t long before his talent for reproducing historic lighting began attracting…

Fabulous But Fake is the name of a book by Norman S. Young and published by Fake Publications. The book helps antique dealers and others identify reproductions often imported for the interior design industry. They include a tin punched coffee pot that has a folksy parrot on both sides. Another in the series is the…