[MassHistPres] About sources for pressed tin

[Garrett Laws]

W F Norman is an excellent source for tin ceilings and they have been
doing it for more than a century!

Garrett
Copper and slate

On Thursday, June 9, 2011, james hadley <jameswhadley at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> While restoring an historic tin ceiling our conservator (Rika Smith- McNally) found the ONLY shop in North America - we believe - that will duplicate historic tin ceiling sections from samples of the ceiling. The shop is:
> Brian Greer's Tin Ceilings
> 1572 Mannheim Road
> RR2 Petersburg
> On Canada NOB 2H0
> 519 743-9710
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> James Hadley AIA
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> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 14:02:16 -0400
> From: jneiswander at bostonpreservation.org
> To: masshistpres at cs.umb.edu
> Subject: [MassHistPres] About sources for pressed tin
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> Here is one from a favorite blog, After-Dinner Design:
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> For those of you considering repairing your tin ceilings, or for those of you considering installing them, these are your guys:
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> T <http://www.tinsmith.com/>he Standard Tinsmith
> 335 Irving Avenue
> Brooklyn, NY 11237
> 718-821-4500
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> According to the people at The Standard Tinsmith <http://tinsmith.com/>, our ceiling is called "Delicate Daisies" which isn't the first thing that comes to mind in my building, but I'm willing to embrace it. The best part is that their prices are literally HALF of Home Depot's, so we were able to pick up a 2'-0 X 4'-0 sheet for less than $20.00, versus the 2' X 2' sheets from HD that cost the same amount, and weren't even Delicate Daisy patterned!
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> Old City Hall
> 45 School Street
> Boston, MA  02108
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Cheers,
Garrett

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