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The Cornish Hand Wrought
Copper Company was founded in the 1880s in Copperhouse, Hayle, a Cornish
port town with a strong engineering tradition serving the mining industry.
Their products were 'entirely hand hammered'. Their inspiration came
from the copper ore mined locally but supplies of rolled sheet made from
refined copper mostly came from mills in Birmingham. In 1908 they were
taken over by a company that had been formed by James and Frederick Pool in
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J
& F Poole Ltd,
Copperhouse,
Hayle, Cornwall. Their copperware was to
some extent similar to that made in the Newlyn tradition but most of the
basic forming was cheaply made with jigs in machines. Many items were
hand finished. It was usually unmarked. A London Agent -
Henry Campbell, 64, Basinghall St. London E. C., was engaged in 1909 and a
new catalogue produced. This included most of the decorative
copperware in popular demand but not cookware. Products included
cabinets, caddies, canopies, clocks, coal hods, curbs and curb suites, door
furniture, fenders, fire irons, fire screens, jardinières, inkwells
and other deskware, gongs, jugs, letter holders, log boxes, matchholders,
mirror and photograph frames, nameplates, plaques, slipper boxes, spill
vases, spirit
kettles, stands, sundries and trays. Their
production of copperwares dwindled rapidly during and after the 1914-18 war
so that they could concentrate on other products. They were registered
as engineers, iron & brass founders, metal perforators, wire weavers,
tinsmiths and coppersmiths. Their papers from 1896 - 1996 are in the
Cornwall Record Office. |
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Charles Eustace was
at one time a wages clerk with Pool's factory but in the late 1930 set up a
copperworks with John Eustace in Hayle to revive the craft of coppersmithing. |
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http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/index-da-art.htm
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Newlyn Copper |
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There
is a monogram mark in their catalogue.
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