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Kelly
Smyth
ChaddsFord,
Pennsylvania
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profile
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With nearly all experience in blacksmith shops
using traditional
tools and techniques (often without electricity),
Kelly is convinced it is the easiest way to make
accurate copies of hardware for either newly
constructed historic ships or buildings.
Smyth spent five years in a blacksmith’s costume
at Colonial Williamsburg before connecting with
shipbuilder Allen C. Rawl and his Kalmer Nyckel.
She’s also participated in the Smithsonian
Folklife Festival and consulted with the
Smithsonian to review hardware recovered from Cleopatra’s
Barge. Built in Salem, Mass., in 1816, it
was owned by the king of Hawaii when it sank in
1824.
Past projects include all the hand forged hardware
for the new version of Discovery (1607)
at Jamestown Settlement in Virginia and the John
Smith 400 Shallop, an eighteenth century
topsail schooner, originally constructed in
Chestertown on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Dry land
work has included hardware for the new Print House
(1672) at Historic St. Mary’s City on Maryland’s
western shore, both colonial capitols in the
seventeenth century as well as private
commissions. |
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Forge welding heavy ship's fittings (Image by Chris Queeney)
18th Century Door Latch
Private Commission, Esssex County VA
Chain Plates for the Discovery, Jamestown Settlement
Kelly does not support a web site at this time.
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