Red Painted Tin Folk Art Flour Mill from the Dummer Estate, Rowley MA flower dish or as tools of some

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where it called a Kanzashi

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Red Painted Tin Folk Art Flour Mill from the Dummer Estate, Rowley MA flower dish or as tools of someI was told that this wonderful old tin mill came from the Dummer estate in Rowley, MA (more below) and was commissioned by one of the Dummers as a model of sorts of the original colonial era fulling mill on the property built by John Pearson on the Mill River, and significantly responsible for making Rowley the birthplace of the American woolen industry. It's a bit confusing, as there were several iterations of the fulling mill, and there was also a