. Early silver of Connecticut and its makers . Silversmith Shop of Lewis Curtis, Farmington. Formerly stood at the head of the main street, one hundred and fifty feet west of Elm Tree Inn. Now located in the meadow two or three hundred feet north of the Country Club. Silversmith Shop of Joseph Carpenter, Norwich Plate vii. EARLY SILVER OF CONNECTICUT AND ITS MAKERS Undoubtedly, the shops of the gold andsilversmiths were small affairs, with nocellars or substantial foundations, beingsimilar in that respect to those of black-smiths. They were frequently built onleased or rented land, and could w
. Early silver of Connecticut and its makers . Silversmith Shop of Lewis Curtis, Farmington. Formerly stood at the head of the main street, one hundred and fifty feet west of Elm Tree Inn. Now located in the meadow two or three hundred feet north of the Country Club. Silversmith Shop of Joseph Carpenter, Norwich Plate vii. EARLY SILVER OF CONNECTICUT AND ITS MAKERS Undoubtedly, the shops of the gold andsilversmiths were small affairs, with nocellars or substantial foundations, beingsimilar in that respect to those of black-smiths. They were frequently built onleased or rented land, and could with littledifficulty be moved to other sites. When Captain Robert Fairchild, of Strat-ford, sold his homestead in 1768, he re-served the right to remove from the prem-ises a goldsmith shop. Such reservationswere not unusual. They were easily broken into by bur-glars, and stop thief advertisements inthe local press were quite common. Theshops of Joseph and Stephen Hopkins, ofWaterbury, were entered in this way someeight or ten times in the decade from 1765to 1775. The writer well remembers a visit in1875 to the smithy of one of these artisansin East Hartford. There, busily engaged,was an old man forging spoons for a Hart-ford jeweler. The building could not ha
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