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Sugar Bowl
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…
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Early American Industries Association meeting
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.
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Michael Terragna
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…
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Fabulous But Fake
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…
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What is a Tinsmith?
Why is he called a Tinsmith? Other names include Tinker, Tinman, Tinplate Worker, Tinner, Tin Knocker, Tin Banger, Tin Bender. He is however not called a Whitesmith. The Oxford Dictionary lists accounts of the use of Whitesmith but there is nothing conclusive that they were a worker of tinplate. The dictionary describes a Whitesmith as…
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World Wide Pandemic
Covid has hit us hard. We were in talks with a local sheet metal shop to rent out a small portion of their building. Max had made plans for the renovation but due to the shutdown we will postpone that brick and mortar opening.
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Circle Cutter
for #numbers The Waugh patent circle cutter has numbers 2 to 7 at 1 inch apart so it is the radius and the Newton circle cutter has numbers from 3 to 14 every half inch so it is not a ruler but rather the diameter of a circle.
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Our Most Valuable Object
For the keyword #valuable. While most tools can be found on eBay for about $100 this is something worth more. A stock certificate from Roys & Wilcox Company for 6 shares. It dates from 1855. $48 dollars in 1855 is worth $3325.43 today. We don’t have anything else worth that.
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Our Book
Our latest book is on books.google.com The Complete Tinsmith & Tinman’s Or Tinner’s Trade, Or, All I Know about th… – Google Books
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Hello Fans of Tinsmithing
Welcome to our website we hope you enjoy our internet presence. We currently working on forming our corporation but hope we update the blog often. We will start with a Musem game where you write a post based on a keyword. Keywords such as #books #plan #hidden #national #study #favorite #valuable #whatzit #numbers. We will…