Red Painted Tin Folk Art Flour Mill from the Dummer Estate, Rowley MA flower dish or as tools of some

or as tools of some other sort

This marvelous antique tin house I am pretty certain is German

with old handmade ones like this one priced quite dearly

lasting 20 minutes for a trip

birds and abstract shapes that read like fanciful handles of long thin swords) I’d bet are one of a kind

Red Painted Tin Folk Art Flour Mill from the Dummer Estate, Rowley MA flower dish or as tools of someI was told that this wonderful old tin mill came from the Dummer estate in Rowley, MA (more below) and was commissioned by one of the Dummers as a model of sorts of the original colonial era fulling mill on the property built by John Pearson on the Mill River, and significantly responsible for making Rowley the birthplace of the American woolen industry. It's a bit confusing, as there were several iterations of the fulling mill, and there was also a