Author: DeVoe, Shirley Spaulding.
Title: The Tinsmiths of Connecticut.
Description: Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1968, 1st ed.; XXIV+200 pp., lge 8vo, hardc. halflin. with grey marmored boards, dustwr., list of illustrations, appendices, list of references. Numerous bl/wh photogr. Weak traces of tape on f.e.p. and dwr.. F/VG ¶ A marvelous book on the history of tinsmithing from about 1750 to the end of this cottage industry. One of the appendices contains a carefully compiled list of all persons known to have been connected with this craft in New England.

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