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The serial number on it links it to a coppersmith in Lexington, and history says that Elijah Pepper was distilling on that site as early as 1812.—Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 12 Sep. 2025 There’s even a miniature train, a sculpture garden, a 9-hole pitch and putt course, a coffee museum, and the only working coppersmith in the Channel Islands.—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025 Below, in the grainy light of still houses and steadings, maltsters, coopers, and coppersmiths sustain tradition, keeping the stories and glories of single malt whisky alive.—Mike MacEacheran, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 June 2025 In 1732 just one estate in St. Kitts in the Caribbean, colonized by the British, needed £1000 of copper equipment and, by the mid-18th century, a single plantation worked by 300 people needed five tons of copper vessels, produced by London coppersmiths.—Corinne Fowler / Made By History, TIME, 17 June 2024 Yet the significance of this workshop has grown beyond Saudi Arabia in recent years as the traditional Arab centers of coppersmiths have declined.—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2023 Like, there’s a subgroup of Romani people who traditionally were coppersmiths.—The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023