From his quaint, cozy American family homestead to yours, Jacob Bromwell’s family wishes to celebrate your discovery of one of the most genuine websites for antiquities through the creativity of cyberspace, www.jacobbromwell.com, Congratulate yourself as you have finally arrived at your destination: a treasure trove of the most priceless, trusted, and rarest finds worthy of a history museum! We invite you to join our family as our honored guest, casually walking down ‘memory lane’ as our story is told. Do not be surprised if you catch yourself traveling way back in time, much like on a time machine, observing the mastermind, himself, making his Old Fashioned Copper Kettle like no other, in recorded history! Just don’t take our word for it; surf the web for yourself.

As with Bromwell, we respectfully ask you to consider this a once-in-a-lifetime, heirloom to be proudly passed down, with pride, through the generations…an American tradition ‘jump-started’ by none other than you! Should you find yourself gently drifting into a pleasant sleep as our story is told, no need to thank us…really. We are used to it ourselves! Just know you may very well notice you are dreaming about how convenient and practical using our teapot from your kitchen to your favorite campgrounds. In fact, it will become quite the ‘talk of the town’ as you travel from place to place. From personal and professional experience, we know the whole family will want to borrow or buy a collector’s item of their own!

No other American-made, copper kettle can even come close to the design, practicality, and décor of Jacob Bromwell’s very own Old Fashioned Copper Kettle as it simply doesn’t exist! Oh, sure, you can easily find a coffee kettle online or in the stores if you search hard enough, but Bromwell’s teapot?? There’s no way; we guarantee it! Invented by Bromwell when James Madison was president of the United States, his teapot was especially made for appreciative, smart history buffs like you. This was a time when life beckoned for simplicity, originality and charm not to mention beauty. His copper kettle is still made today on the machinery first used ‘in bygone days’ when families typically lived together ‘under one roof’. Imagine the joy your campfire and family kitchen gatherings will bring. Know that our one-of-a-kind coffee kettle is an old fashioned, yet simple, safe, and special treasure. Just think how jealous your family, friends, and neighbors who visit will be! They will probably want to have their very own teapot as a memorable birthday, graduation, or holiday present.

To further appreciate our very own copper kettle, we believe the more you understand its origin, the more you will see what Jacob Bromwell was set out to accomplish for our great nation. So, here’s a short review for you history buffs and collectors out there…

The story of copper, coffee kettles, or teapots begins with their necessity -- the development of tea and its regular consumption required an efficient, and later an aesthetically pleasing, vessel for brewing and drinking.

There are two legends about the invention of tea. Some attribute the discovery of tea to Shen Nung, a Chinese Emperor in the 3rd century BCE, who sat under a tree while boiling his drinking water. When the leaves of Camellia sinensis fell into his bowl, the agreeable taste prompted the genesis of tea drinking. An alternative account gives credit to a Dharuma Buddhist monk who travelled to China from India in the 5th century CE. During his fifth year of a seven year meditiation undertaken to prove his faith, he became sleepy. In an effort to remain focused, he cut off his offending eyelids and threw them onto the ground, whence sprang the tea plant. He decided to make a drink from the leaves and discovered it kept him awake, allowing him to pursue his spiritual studies.

We hope you enjoyed our story nearly as much as we, at Jacob Bromwell, enjoyed writing it.