Art Of Coppersmithing.
a practical treatise on working sheet copper into all forms
By John Fuller, Sr.
Published By, David Williams Company, 232-238 William St., New York
1904
Linsey publications has a reprint out, but just now I can't find
their catalog. They do have a web site.
Yes I know he is late 19th C. But he makes many refrences to how this
or that has been done this way for 100 years and he is writing about his
own apprenticeship in 1856. Which puts his pots and pans back to 1750's
Proof of sorts; He decribes the making of a thing called a washing
copper. Odd shaped kettle for heating wash water.
National Geographic did an artical on the ship that persued the HMS
Bounty and sank in the Austraion Great Bearer Reef in the 1790's,
Recovered from the wreck was one of those washing coppers exactly as
Fuller decribes it.
T.W.Moran
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