CCCC Member Tinsmiths
&
Cookie Designers
Please support your CCCC member craftspeople!
T&C
Latane
Located in Pepin, Wisconsin, T&C Latane have a beautiful old shop
within sight of the Mississippi. More info to follow.
Victor
Trading Co. & Mfg. Works
The Victor Trading Co. & Manufacturing Works, high in the Colorado
Rockies, has had their cutters featured in Good Housekeeping, Holiday Best
and Country Home magazines. Sam and Karen Morrison have a tin shop filled
with antique equipment. They hand bend all their cutter, which are made of
genuine tin plate and use only lead-free solder. The tin shop, known as
VICTOR TIN WORKS, offers over 2700 designs, specializing in reproductions
of historical cookie cutter designs. Custom cutters from customer's
drawings are also available.
Their cutters have a brass tag "Maker, the Victor Tin Works, Victor,
Colorado". To receive their new 63 page catalog with over 2700 designs,
send $7.00 (postage included) to Victor Trading Co., PO Box 53, Victor, CO
80860. Visit their web site: VictorTradingCo.com
or
email at: Mail@VictorTradingCo.com.
When in Colorado, visit our store. Call or email for hours and
directions. 719-689-2346.
Tinsmith, Al Moorhouse, has made cookie cutters since
1993 under the business name ASM Cutters & Things, 2763 310th
Street, Cannon Falls, MN 55009. Telephone is
507-263-4757. They are made in the USA of quality tin plate in
outline designs. Backs and handles are available upon request for
additional fees. Special ordered cutters are available from your
designs. Ask about being a wholesale customer. For a brochure
send $3, to see the over 800 cutter listed.
The tinsmith who made the 1999 CCCC cutter is Elenna
Firme. She has also made them for previous years including 1990 and
1991. Elenna has been featured in Taste of Home and Country
Woman magazines. The catalog Gooseberry Patch has also
featured several of her cutters over the years. For a list of cutters
currently available, send a #10 SASE to: 42795 CR15, Haxton, CO 80731.
Frankencutters are copper outline cutters made by Frank
Longmore. A special cutter he designed is his "Sharing cutter" shown
here. Give one of these cookies to two children, and they can
"share" it by "breaking on the dotted line".
(Copr. 1997,
FrankenCutters)
He and his wife Lori, have relocated to Ludington, Michigan, where they
renovated a 100 year-old house and became quite active in their
community. Not surprising, Lighthouse cookie cutters have become a
popular item. In Fall of 2006, they purchased some property and moved "out
of town" by a couple of miles. The new workshop is now attached to the
house.
Frank enjoys designing/making custom "one of a kind" cutters for making
cookies and for other applications such as custom cakemaking,
candlemaking, cutting out small ceramic objects, or whatever a customer
wishes to use them for. His cutters have been as small as 3/4"
across to as much as 16" high, single or multiple. If required, he
adds backs, bracing, and/or handles. His cutters are engraved with a small
"FC", usually near the joint.
He also makes custom aluminum cake pans, gingerbread house cutter sets,
and other custom items. Many of those are shown on his website,
www.frankencutters.com/fc ,
as well as some "FrankenHistory" and pictures of some "FrankenTools". You will also find some photos taken
at the CCCC Conventions in Pittsburg, Kansas, and Pittsburgh, PA..
He no longer keep "stock" cookie cutters; but makes "custom" items,
made-to-order. To receive a free quote, you can contact FC at the link on
the website, or write to:
:
KAITLYN'S KUTTERS
Welcome to a new Tinsmith, Kaitlyn's
Kutters, a vendor at the California Convention. Vickie (Kaitlyn) Flanagan is a tinsmith, and has a number of
designs on her website: http://kaitlynskutters.com The website has a "Contact Us" page which
would send an inquiry to her, or you can email her at: kaitlynskutters@yahoo.com
Her mailing address is:
Kaitlyn's
Kutters
4190 East Sparkling Lane
Camp Verde, AZ 86322
Telephone: 729-969-7922
ECRANDAL
ORIGINALS
We welcome a new CCCC member, Ecrandal Originals. They are from North
Carolina, and make copper cookie cutters.
Their email address is: email@ecrandal.com
The following is taken from their website http://ecrandal.com/
We are a small home business operated by Eric and Jamie Border
and our six young children. We are located in the foothills of the
Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
Our
journey
into this venture began Thanksgiving of 2001. We have always had the
dream of working at home so we could spend more quality time together
as a family. With very little money($10 to be exact) and no work, Eric
hand formed our first shapes using a few strips of copper he had: The
Original Tree, Gingerbread Man, and Large Snowman. We offered them in
a gift set to family and friends for Christmas presents. Everyone
loved them! Thus began our special home-based business. We now have
over 300 shapes and are continually expanding our collection. Eric
still forms each and every cutter by hand without the use of
machinery. I (Jamie) enjoy packaging each cutter, as well as
conversing with you...our customers. We print all of our own tags
right here in our home. Our children help us as well and especially
love cutting out the shapes & sampling the many cookies we make
when we test our latest cookie cutters. Together, we share ideas on
new designs and improvements.
Our cookie cutters are a labor of love from start to
finish.
Lord
Bless and thank you for helping to support our family with your cookie
cutter purchase!
The
Border family,
Eric,
Jamie, Victoria, Olivia, Ezekiel, Ezra, Levi and AsaEric
& Jamie Border
ecrandal originals
Handmade copper cookie cutters
414 Oakwoods Road
Wilkesboro NC 28697
336.838.1843
Hammer
Song - Makers of fine tin cookie cutters
"cookie
cutters to make you laugh, cry, giggle or remember"
Betsy Cukla/Hammer Song
7952N Barker Lake Road
Winter, WI 54896
You can email them at: hammersongtin@centurytel.net
Woodcarver Gene Wilson offers over 100 designs of individually
carved cookie molds and stamps priced from $7 to $70. Each hardwood mold of
beech or cherry is a signed collectible ready to shape dough into fancy
"picture cookies" i.e. springerle, speculaas. They have a new website
at: www.cookiemold.com ,
which also lists some Clearance and Retired Designs. Their new email address
is: genewilson@cookiemold.com.
To receive a current pricelist, you can also mail them at:
HOBI Picture Cookie Molds
P.O. Box 25
Belleville, IL 62222
We are very sad to report
the death of Ed Fox on September 6, 2006.
Ed and Mary Fox started their business when they made their first
cutters for a fund-raiser for a twins support group, of which they were
members. Ed's work was approved by the Ohio Arts and Crafts Guild in March
1972, thus began The Little Fox Factory. They were the first smiths
to join the Club and have made CCCC cutters for many years including 1983,
1987, 1988, and 1995. During the years, their five children also helped in
the factory, and Kevin continues the tradition by contracting his own Art
and Craft shows around the country. Ed often helps Kevin with his shows,
too. Through the years they have been featured in many magazines. Their
heirloom cutters are made to be treasured over the years. They still make
cutters for special groups along with offering their standard cutter
catalog. Their patterns number well past 500, plus other varied designs for
specific projects. To receive a brochure which features over 300 different
cutters, send a #10 SASE and $1.00 to: The Little Fox Factory, 931 Marion
Rd., Bucyrus, OH 44820.
You can visit their web site
at: http://www.thelittlefoxfactory.com
H.O. Foose Tinsmithing Co. is a family business started by H.O.
Foose in the early 70's by Hormon O. Foose. With his passing in 1997, and
the retiring of his wife, Maria in 1998, the tradition is proudly carried
on by his family. They currently make tin cutters, backless and without
handles. Foose agreed to make our 2000 membership cookie cutter,
The Golden Gate Bridge.
Their website is at www.foosecookiecutters.com
and you can email them at sylvia@foosecookiecutters.com
H.O. Foose Tinsmithing Co., 18 West Poplar Street, Fleetwood, PA
19522
phone: 610-944-1961
fax: 610-944-6420
CopperGifts.com, located at 900 N. 32nd Street,
Parsons, KS 67357-2108, (620)-421-0654 is owned by Raymond & Beth
Braman. email. (Email address
Beth@CopperGifts.com). They make 5 sizes of cookie cutters. Tiny and
standard sizes are outline cutters without handles. Large and giant are
outline cutters with handles. Huge cutters are two to three feet tall with
handles. They also make special order cutters. They make and sell various
copper products on their website at www.CopperGifts.com
Emery Strohm Sr.
Your webmaster has just received word (12/5/03) that after more than
60 years of making cookie cutters, Emery Strohm Sr. will be retiring
from the cookie cutter business. Sadly, this moves the following
paragraph into the past tense. We all congratulate Emery for his
craftsmanship and wish him well in his Second Retirement!
What did a "tin man" do after retirement? He made cookie cutters! Known
locally in Brookville, PA as the "Tin Man", Emery Strohm, Sr. has been a
tinsmith for over 60 years. At 81 years young, Emery worked about 5 hours a
day making about 1500 cookie cutters annually for folks who wanted something
special. He fabricated hand-made custom cutters for individuals from their
designs and patterns sent to him.
It is with much sadness that we learned of the
passing of Emery Strohm Sr. on August 19, 2004.
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the
intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body,
but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn
out, and loudly proclaiming -- WOW -- What a Ride!"
Now retired, Bob Jones made mostly one of a kind
cutters. If you have one of his signed cutters, you have a real prize
indeed.
Sadly, we must report that Bob Jones passed away
on 8-4-09. Keep Lorrie and their family in your
prayers.
Joy Denison hand decorates the beautiful cookies
available from The Joy of Cookies. For her beautiful color brochure, send a
#10 SASE to: P.O. Box 325, Williams, OR 97544.
Although no longer actively taking orders, a number of
different handmade cutters with backs and handles have been made by George
Rapp through the years.
Stan Baker made the 1998 Convention cutter.
Everyone who attended received one. He also made the 1992 and 1993 CCCC
cutters. For a list of his cutters, send a #10 SASE to: 4804 Schneiders
Crossing Rd. N.W., Dover, OH 44622. He also makes individual cutters to your
pattern.
Peter Blum, III is a "third generation tinsmith
trained in the Moravian tradition of excellence". He produced the tinware
for the movie "Last of the Mohicans" and the Disney re-make of "Tom Sawyer"
and has demonstrated his skills and instructed classes at many festivals and
museums. To receive his catalog send a #10 SASE to: 271 Dobbins Mill Rd.,
Elkin, NC 28621.
The Cookie As Canvas is the hand-painted,
custom-designed gourmet cookie business run by CCCC member Brenda
Oelbaum. Her cookies are preservative-free, and she offers most of her
cookies with the availability to meet individual dietary requirements. For
her brochure send a #10 SASE to: 3060 Newcastle Rd., Ann Arbor, MI
48104.
Sweet Annie's
is a recent CCCC member. Suzanne Robertson's son, Jeremy
makes their cutters in copper. They have been in business several years and
attend many craft shows. Suzanne was a guest lecturer at the Denver
Convention. One of the things she did was demonstrate how she
does the fabulous decorating on her cookies. (UPDATE:
Sweet Annie's is no longer in business.)
CCCC member Gene Valesek has made many cutters
such as his collectable 2000 cutter. He had no catalog but made cutters to
your drawings. For all inquires, write to: 4518 17th St., Canton, OH 44708.
This lovely cutter was the Swedish Nisse-Nasse. Note that Gene's
cutters are no longer available.
CCCC member Tuda Libby Crews
until recently, been the purveyor of Wild, Wild, West Cowboy
Cookies. Tuda has appeared on TV food shows from Denver to New York and in
newspaper articles in Wyoming, Texas, Utah, and Colorado. Many of her
originally designed cutters were made by famed smith, Michael Bonne,
of
Indiana. She is no longer active in CCCC activities.
Please visit our Using Cookie
Cutters page for fun ideas! Lots of recipes, cool ways to use cookie
cutters, and a HUGE listing of sites with Cookie Cutters for sale on
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