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Welcome to the The Tin Tan Tales Another turn-of-the-century childhood book handed down to my mother, and in turn my sister, has stories of kitchen equipment coming to life. The subtitle reads, "A Book for Children". I guess it would be, if you wanted your children to swear off cooking, or even entering a kitchen at night. Pranksters at heart, the utensils can be downright deadly to one another, and make quite a mess in the process. Some are benign and playful, and even play music. In doing a search using the "Google" engine, I came across these links to more information on this book: Ohio State University has a sample picture from a different version of the book than we have, evidenced by the style of the example. The University of North Texas mentions this book as an example of a printing technique called "chromolithography". Lastly, it seems a dealer of rare books has a copy (clearly in much better condition than ours) for sale, advertised in an advertisement in Adobe Acrobat format.