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Praise for Paul Revere & his copper manufactory...
Praise for Paul Revere & his copper manufactory...
Item # 703949
October 30, 1801
THE MERCURY & NEW ENGLAND PALLADIUM, Boston, Oct. 30, 1801 Page 2 has an interesting item praising the copper manufacturing business of Paul Revere. It notes in part: "Several sheets of sheet copper, produced at the manufactory of Col. Paul Revere and Son...At a very great expense those ingenious gentlemen have erected works, where copper for sheathing ships, cold rolled, is produced, which has been pronounced by the best judges equal to any manufactured in Great Britain. The frigate Boston was bolted & spiked with bolts and spikes from this manufactory...and equal to European...".
Another article questions the value in establishing a navy, and another item provides a list of: "Naval Commanders".
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, mild wear at folds, good condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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