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WE ARE ONLY TAKING ORDERS FROM ESTABLISHED CUSTOMERS AT THIS TIME. (04/05/2009)

THANK YOU TO OUR LOYAL CUSTOMERS AND THANK YOU FOR VISITING OUR WEBSITE.

JP    

CUPS, BOILERS AND DIPPERS
CANTEENS
LIGHTING DEVICES
MEDICAL WARES
REFLECTOR OVENS
MISCELLANEOUS AND SUNDRY ITEMS
THE BARTHOLOMAE CANTEEN




John Peterson has been making reproductions of tin and other period sheet metal wares for nearly thirty years. He employs techniques, tools and machines that were in use during the nineteenth century. He works in high quality tinplate as well as brass, copper and sheet steel. Although it is not a full-time business, he has reproduced wares for museums, collectors and living historians when his busy schedule allows.


John and Laura Peterson in at Shelburne Museum as New England peddler Sam Slick and his customer, Mrs. Flint. (Watch the sparks fly when she crosses Mrs. Steele!)

MR. SATURDAY NIGHT!

Incontrovertible photographic and documentary evidence that the 19th century tinman was the original "life of the party":

Oooooh look!!! He's soldering!!!!!

 

... it was many a 'prentice to the tinman's trade who looked forward longingly to the day when he, with sharpened snips and heated iron  in hand, would be the center of attention from many of the village's prettiest girls ...

from The Reminiscences of Obadiah Carbunkle,

A Real Green Mountain Boy, 1887

 

Tinman also available for birthdays, weddings and bar mitzvahs ...



LINKS TO SOME OF MY OTHER PAGES, FAVORITE PAGES AND FRIENDS' PAGES:

DAN PARTNER'S
AMERICAN
MUSIC PAGE
American popular music of the mid 1800s!

Dan plays banjo with the

Free and Accepted Minstrels of Old New Orleans

(WARNING! Lyrics are historically correct but may not be "politically correct.")

Check out their CD:

"Touched by Fire"

THE CAMPTOWN SHAKERS

 

The Banjo Clubhouse

(resources for early banjo)

 

 

Minstrel Banjo

(for enthusiasts of early banjo)

BUILDING MY OWN BANJO
What a d--d fool idea!

WIGHT MANNING'S MILITARIA

Would you like to buy a Gatling Gun?

THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY HISTORIC REENACTORS
 
Tyler's an up-and-coming producer and a great pard!

TYLER GOODRICH

 


Pied Potter
Hamelin
Authentic
Redware
Reproductions

A good, good friend from "long, long time ago"

AMERICAN REDWARE, SGRAFFITO AND SLIPWARE

TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPOT

Serving museums, private collectors and the living history community since 1995, Don Smith's reproduction leather goods and clothing are acknowledged as "top drawer." Don collaborated with me on an exclusive run of Bartholomae filter canteens and he specializes in custom items.



OTTER CREEK TINWARE

26 Carver Street
Brandon, VT 05733
tinman@ottertin.com
 

*I HATE FAIR POINT!!!!!!

In January 09 Verizon transferred its DSL landline system in northern New England to Fair Point. Well - for a lot of us here in the northeast this has been a nightmare!!!! For the time being Fair Point is still my isp at home. Their delivery of email has been sporadic and undependable. I opened up a domain email account (...@ottertin.com) but Fair Point still does not receive or deliver email  from/to that account consistently. If you should email me it is possible that Fair Point has lost it somewhere in the ethernet and I have not seen it. If I sent you an email it is possible that Fair Point did not deliver it. I am very sorry for this inconvenience but we can chalk it up to the incompetence of Fair Point.

 

I HATE FAIR POINT!!!