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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Secrets and superior Locks; plain and strongly banded with Brass' [Tradecards (1790s)], but in the other instance the … earliest date of use: 1474 Found described as banded with BRASS, CURIOUS, INLAID, LADIES, with LOCKs, PLAIN, with … Secrets and superior Locks; plain and strongly banded with Brass' advertised in the 1790s were probably of this type …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… three moulded and cusped lozenge panels, each enclosing a brass shield of arms, moulded plinth and chamfered base; (2) …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… having been made of British coins, and of fragments of brass armour and military weapons. Other circumstances lead …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… with North Chapel is built of brick, and dated 1532 by a brass commemorating the builder; it is therefore a very late … and inscription: indent of civilian, lower part of figure brass, with indent of inscription said to be of George Canon, 1534: brass inscription (now kept at the Rectory) to George Canon, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… base is illegible. Fittings Candelabra (Plate 11): two, of brass with two tiers of six branches, 18th-century. Font: …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… corbel with leopard's head carved on soffit, 14th-century. Brass Indent: In churchyard, W. of W. wall of nave, indents …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… Deritend, Birmingham, factors & manufacturers of cabinet brass foundary, coffin furniture, picture frames, looking …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… in particular to describe those alloys of COPPER and zinc (BRASS or LATTEN) in which the proportion of copper was low, … References: Bristow (1996), Harley (1970). Yellow brass A term that came into use during the seventeenth century for a BRASS in which, presumably, the COPPER component was lower …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the site of Godstow abbey. 25 The lid bears a monumental brass by Thomas Knowles of Oxford, copied from the brass of Richard Atkinson (d. 1574) in St. Peter-in-the-East, …