29-08-2017, 02:43 PM
(29-08-2017, 01:43 PM)Duncan Grimmond Wrote: I'd suggest it is older than it may appear. The base and top are of a "knocked-up" form typical of early tinsmith workshops at the turn of the last century. The handle is of the same style and the neatly formed interior locked joint is also typical of the days when things like this were made by hand in small factories. The Sirram(B'ham) range of early tinware for picnic sets was pretty much all hand made either in small out-work back kitchens or tinsmith workshops in Birmingham using the same forming techniques. There were many small metal workshops doing piece-work all round Birmingham and the Black Country and I was lucky enough to find a few of the remaining ones when I was at college there in the 1970's
If the can is US or Canadian made it is likely to be in the same vein.
Yow gerra bit o woyre
yow stick it in the foyre
yow pullir out an givvit a clout
an yow gorra nayel
I reckon you've nailed it , Duncan
Merv
