Jan Dircksz Messchaert II, Two-piece bronze mold for large deep plate with initials I D M and 1697, mold casting tool tools equipment base metal bronze, and year 1697 Rotterdam tin tinker tin tin Meeuws Druy artisan Shapes are from the originally 18th century Rotterdam tinnegieter J Druy. The large molds that were not signed or dated were the property of the tinker guild and were rented to the small tin caster

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