Unfortunately, much of the town does not wake up from hibernation until the first weekend in June, and we were there the weekend before that. One shop that was working was ASL Pewter where I met Thomas Hooper. Hooper showed me how to take a sheet of pewter to make round pewter boxes on a lathe. He used two wooden rods to center and shape the pewter, which was taken to completion in just a few seconds. Other items like the little salt spoons pictured below require stamping.
He mentioned that Thomas Jefferson is one who brought pewter work to the American colonies as a less expensive and easily produced item for skilled tradesmen to make and sell - probably quite a bit easier to manipulate than the silver work that Paul Revere was known to make.