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Wildwood Flowers –
Rose hip, oak leaves and acorns, sweet briar rose (eglantine) and sunflower. “With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine…” Many English misericords have a central carving with a ‘surround’ to either side. The surround may have additonal figures that add to the central theme or they may be purely decorative. Maybe because it is May and…
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How to Avoid Pitting Corrosion?
.wp-image-1060{display:none;} How to Avoid Pitting Corrosion? The pitting is likely the best known corrosion phenomena in relation to stainless steels. But what causes this phenomenon? Pitting. How to cause it? Pitting is caused by local laceration of the passive layer. But how it originated? This phenomenon arises from the action of strongly activating elements such…
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Portable Library Writing Tables –
One of the interesting forms I didn’t get to discuss in “Campaign Furniture,” is the portable library writing table. It’s typically a three-piece affair – the desktop lifts off the two pedestals for travel. The version shown above is from the 1907 Army & Navy Co-Operative Society catalog, though the form appears over and over…
With Stake Feet –
“This is such a familiar form of construction that a vocabulary of terms has hardly been found to describe it, but some early inventories seem to refer to it as ‘staked,’ or ‘with stake feet.’ Added to this is the fact that it has been largely ignored by serious furniture historians, though its place in…