The Cape Copper-Smith

Marius Le Roux, The Cape Copper-Smith: A Survey of the Copper-Smiths Who Worked at the Cape of Good Hope from 1662 Onwards With Particular Reference to the Materials, Tools and Techniques They Employed.

Stellenbosch Museum, 1982. 2nd impression.

Quarto, dustwrapper, hardcover, 160 pages, numerous illustrations including a few in colour. Slight foxing on the preliminary pages. Very good condition.

'The Cape Copper-smith provides information on those craftsmen who made the gleaming copper and brass utensils which formed such an essential part of he early Cape housewife's kitchen: the tart pans, coffee-pots, konfore, saucepans, kettles, skimmers, chamber-sticks and many other articles which have to-day become valued collectors' pieces. The materials, tools and techniques of the old Cape copper-smiths are described in detail, and illustrated with more than 180 photographs including many of the various types of copper and brass objects made at the Cape since the 17th century.'