Show THIN aa PAPER A ceat bolli in strip andriy FITS bitet long joew I 1 ira sun probably tho most expert cop per rollers in the country are to be among the workmen of an ania anil aej recent events eo to prove it A few days ago walter buckingham of birmingham look a notion tu run an old fashioned copper cent between a pair of rollers in the gaborno when he got with it he felt proul at having a of copper seventeen inches long and one and a an inch thick he exhibited it to a of the Seid mel aad it being regarded as a curiosity it was duly chronicled in the columns of that paper A peculiarity of sir buck cent after it was rolled waa that the lettering on the nal coin could be read by means of bolea in tho rolled strip the publication of the item at once started a regular mania for cent rolling and several pretty skillful pieces of work have been shown to the sun reporter none of then however exceeded clr Buckin gams cent until alfred shaw a roller in the employ oatha ansonia brasa and copper jom pany started in to see what be coufa do he ignored the old fashioned copper penny and took the more modern alloy cent the first one he neglected to notice the date of but he rolled it out to thirty eight inches in length and one five hundredth of an inch thick this was fair work and averal tried to emulate him bat did not surpass bis record one birmingham man took an 1889 cent and succeeded in getting it to three quarters thousandth of an inch thick but he could only make it twenty two and one half inches long mr shaw tried again with an 1888 cent he got that squeezed out to fifty inches long three quarters of an inch wide and two thousandths of an inch thick again bis brother rollers endeavored to surpass him but could not succeed they came dangerously near to hia record however and in order to put the notch a little higher mr shaw tried once more with a cent of this years coinage he succeeded in producing a strip fifty nine inches long and leas than one two thousandths of an inch thick so thin in fact that their ia no instrument in ansonia delicate enough to measure it and it bad to be glued to a strip of ribbon in order to preserve it from falling to peces the strip has been seen by the sun reporter who can vouch for the accuracy of the statement when it is considered that the rolls upon which this remarkable per was done are huge anil massive machines used for great bars of copper it will be seen that it required extraordinary skill as well as nicety of touch to handle so thin a piece of metal holds the championship and challenges any one to beat him |