Birmingham Brass USA

(c) Vin Callcut 2002-2021.

Small extracts can be used with acknowledgements to 'Oldcopper.org' website.

Helpful comments are very welcome.

 

Birmingham Brass Company was the name of a factory producing brassware in Shelton Borough, Naugatuck Valley, Connecticut.  The area is now named 'Derby'. It would be interesting to know if they had any original connection with Birmingham, home of the British brass industry in England.  ('The New England State, their Constitutional, Judicial, Educational, Commercial, Professional and Industrial History. Volume II. Edited by William T. Davis. © 1897 Published by D.H. Hurd & Co., Boston. 11" x 8" leather and marbled boards.)

 

A winder from an oil lamp.  It carries the name and a March 1885 patent in raised lettering.

 

 

 

 

Another winder has the lettering stamped onto a flat disc. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The factory, from an old advertisement.  Further information welcome.