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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… in bags, has turn'd like the most polish'd, and hardest ebony, only discerned by the grain: also for wheel-wrights, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… a seal engraved on a cornelian, mounted in silver, with an ebony handle. 396 The design is that of the common seal. …
Survey of London
… here for many years, working in tortoiseshell, ivory and ebony, as well as silver. 63 By 1901 well over half the …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… Oakley's furniture, combined with inlays of satinwood and ebony, and brass stars and bands of metalwork. The highclass … decorated with vertical bands of palmleaf ornament and ebony dots; the pedimented cornice is enriched with ormolu … central arched kneehole, the mahogany veneer outlined with ebony inlays; a pedestalled loo table of calamander wood …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… gift by Richard Towne in 1726. (2) Of Porter; with ebony shaft; silver head engraved with city arms and with … punch ladles with plain circular bowls, engraved EBOR, and ebony handles, by Stephen Adams, London 1786. (13, 14) …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… with gilt ornaments for 29 and further inkstands, some in ebony with brass mouldings. The Hon. Mrs Leigh for her London … than 160 10s was spent in 1817 mostly on a pair of black ebony cabinets and a circular inlaid table both ornamented … 1701 and 1703. On 22 August 1701 he provided twelve ebony frames for the small heads of Vandyke and supplied …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… which in 1300 he rendered to the honour of St. Valery an ebony bow and three barbed arrows or 12 d. yearly. 18 This …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… and partly of ginger-root with the set of ivory and ebony . . . they broke the fish ponds and carried away the …
A History of the County of Rutland
… the front being of wood inlaid with mother-of-pearl, ebony and ivory. The wooden reredos and organ-case are …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… curate of St. John's, Margate, and vicar of Apledore, with Ebony. He lies buried in the church-yard here, close to the … succeeded his predecessor in the vicarage of Apledore with Ebony, and died here far advanced in years, insomuch, that … passed for his holding the vicarage of Apledore with Ebony; together with this vicarage. …