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rectangular with canted top corners and triangular arch
rectangular with detached pediment
rectangular with five-facetted arch
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rectangular with pediment
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astragal and stepped fillet
astragal with cavetto
bead
bead-and-pellett
bead-on-fillet
bevelled
bevelled fillet
braided rope
castellated
cavetto
cavetto and fillet
cavetto dentil
chamfered
complex individual
complex, furniture-derived
convex
convex, twisted cloth with inner fillet
cross-cut dowel
custom with repeated leaf pattern
cyma curve and astragal
cyma curve and fillet
cyma recta
cyma reversa/ogee
demi-bullnose
dentil ovolo
double astragal
double fillet
double stepped astragal
egg and dart
embattled cavetto
embattled fillet
faux ruche
fillet
fillet and cavetto
fillet and cavetto
fillet and ogee
fillet and rope
fillet with egg and dart moulding
fillet with scalloping
flanged
flanged
furniture moulding
gadrooned
grooved dowel
hatched fillet
indeterminate moulded
invested cavetto
moulded fillet
none
overlapping laurel leaf
overlapping leaf bud
ovolo
ovolo, egg and dart
ovolo, simulated rope
plain and ovolo
rebated fillet
rebated ovolo moulding
repeated s-pattern within double fillet
reversed cavetto
rope
rope and ovolo moulding
rope and wood moulding
rope over moulding
scalloped
scalloped cavetto
scalloped fillet
simulated overlapping tile
simulated rope
stepped cavetto
stepped fillet
stepped fillet and ogee
trailing vine
triple fillet
triple-fillet moulding
twisted leather
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Ashburnham Furnace
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Drumshanbo Furnace
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Eisenschmitt Furnace
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Flaxley Furnace
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Hawkhurst Furnace
Heathfield Furnace
Horsted Keynes Furnace
Loosley Row Foundry
Low Moor Furnace
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Newland Furnace
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Norfolk Ironworks, Norwich,
North End Ironworks, Boston
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Pentyrch Furnace
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Riverhall Furnace, Wadhurst
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Staveley Furnace
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Tongwynlais Furnace
Waldron Furnace
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Citations
Any
Ames, A., 1980, Collecting Cast Iron (Ashbourne, Moorland Publishing).
Anon., 1907, 'Armorial iron fire back', Montgomeryshire Collections, 34, p. 212.
Anon., 1918, 'Second Field Meeting 25th June 1918', Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, p. xvi.
Anon., 1929, 'An interesting fireback', Sussex Notes and Queries, 2, 8 , p. 242.
Anon., 2 Dec 1905, 'Old Kent and Sussex Fire-backs', Country Life, pp. 767-768.
Anon., 30 Dec 1911, 'Sussex Backs and their Story', The Ironmonger.
Arnold, F. H., 1900, 'Notes and Queries No. 7: Relics of Old Cowdray', Sussex Archaeological Collections, 43, p. 281.
Arnold, F., 1871, 'Withyham Monumental Slab', Sussex Archaeological Collections, 23, pp. 320-1.
Badeni, J., 22 Sep 1983, 'Whose Fireback?' [letter], Country Life, 174, 4492, p. 772.
Baines, J. M., 1958, Wealden Firebacks (Hastings Museum).
Balcomb, J. T., Nov. 1886, 'An Extinct Sussex Art', The Art Journal, pp. 337-340.
Barrett, C. R. B., 1893, Essex: Highways, Byways, and Waterways, Second series (London, Lawrence & Bullen), p. 20n
Beetlestone, C. J., 1926, 'Notes and Queries No. 6, A Sussex Fireback', Sussex Archaeological Collections, 67, pp. 221-2.
Bick, D. E. [incorrectly printed as Bick, R.], Sept 1985, 'Firebacks', Period Homes, pp. 21-4.
Bick, D. E., 1987, The Mines of Newent and Ross, (Newent, The Pound House), p. 35.
Brent, C. & J., 2013, Danny House (Chichester, Phillimore), pp. 58-9.
Brooke, S., 2022, 'Appendix IV George Shaw (1810-1876)', Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture, 8, 3, pp. 162-183.
Browne, P. J., 27 Jul 1967, 'Sussex Firebacks ... History of an Early Application of Cast Iron', Foundry Trade Journal, pp. 109-111.
Butterfield, W. R., 10 Mar 1934, 'The Brede Ogre', Hastings and St Leonards Observer.
Butterfield, W. R., 16 Feb 1935, 'A Tudor Fireback', Hastings and St Leonards Observer.
Butterfield, W. R., 19 Jan 1935, 'Charles II Fireback', Hastings and St Leonards Observer.
Butterfield, W. R., 1916, 'Old Wealden Firebacks', The Connoisseur, 46, pp. 197-209.
Butterfield, W. R., 23 Feb 1935, 'A Scriptural Fireback', Hastings and St Leonards Observer.
Calcutt, V., Autumn 2021, 'Cast iron fire-back from East Shropshire', Base Thoughts, Newsletter of the Antique Metalware Society, p. 10.
Callcut, V., Nov 2004, 'Shirlot (or Shirlett?) Hearth Iron', Newsletter of the Broseley Local History Society, pp. 8-9.
Carpentier, H., 1912, Plaques de Cheminées (Paris, published by the author).
Chambers, L. H., 26 Sep 1912, 'Fireback: Relic of 1660', Notes and Queries, 11th series, 6, p. 230.
Chenet, E., 1926, Musées de Metz: Catalogue des Taques de Cheminée (Metz, Les Arts Graphiques).
Christy, M., 30 May 1908, 'The Old Flat Hearth and its Appliances, III - The Fire-back', The Crown, The Court and County Families' Newspaper, XCIX, Vol. 8, No. 9, pp. 383-6.
Collier, C. V., 1897, 'Coats of Arms in Kent Churches', Archaeologia Cantiana, 22, pp. 190-1.
Cowper, H. S., 1899, Hawkshead: its History, Archaeology, Industries, Folklore, Dialect, etc., etc. (London, Bemrose).
Cowper, H. S., 1911, 'A Series of Kentish Heraldic Firebacks and the Identification of the Arms', Archaeologia Cantiana, 29, pp. 40-6.
Crouch, J. & Butler, E., 1900, The Apartments of the House (London, At the Sign of the Unicorn), p. 192.
Dalton, A., 2002, 'The Penkhurst family of ironmasters', Wealden Iron, 2nd ser., 22, pp. 23-26.
Dawson, C., 1903, 'Sussex Iron Work and Pottery', Sussex Archaeological Collections, 46, pp. 1-54.
Demain-Saunders, C., Dec 1934, 'The Early Maynards of Devon and St Albans', Genealogists Magazine, pp. 591-641.
Denny, H., 1937, 'Iron Fire-back', Sussex Notes and Queries, 6, 6, p. 189.
Dodd, A. E. & M. E., 1957, 'A Seventeenth Century Fireback', Trans. North Staffs Field Club, 90, pp. 39-40.
Driesch, K. von den , 1990, Handbuch der Ofen-, Kamin- und Takenplatten im Rheinland (Cologne, Rheinland-Verlag).
Easton, T. & Hodgkinson, J. S., 2013, 'Apotropaic Symbols on Cast-Iron Firebacks', Jnl. of the Antique Metalware Soc., 21, pp. 14-33.
Elling, W. & Winkler-Borck, S., 1992, Ofen- und Kaminplatten (Vreden, Hamaland-Museum).
Eschbaecher, J., 22 Jan 1959, 'Why in reverse?' [letter], Country Life, p. 153.
Evans, F., 1957, 'Sussex Firebacks', Daily Mail Ideal Home Book 1957 (London, Daily Mail), pp. 113-115.
Faraday, L., Feb 1939, 'Sussex Firebacks in the Victoria and Albert Museum', Sussex County Magazine, 13, 2, pp. 100-103.
Fitt, H. F., 1931, 'Queries: Sussex Iron, II', Sussex Notes and Queries, 3, 8, p. 255.
Fitzgerald-Uniacke, R. G., 1914, 'The Barhams of Shoesmiths in Wadhurst', Sussex Archaeological Collections, 56, pp. 110-160.
Fox-Davies, A. C., 1929, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour (London, Hurst & Blackett).
Foyle, J. & Lindfield, P., 2021, 'A Forger's Folly?: George Shaw's Productions for Cheetham's Library, Manchester', The British Art Journal, 21, 3, pp. 42-50.
Gamble, H. G., 1 Nov 1889, 'Metal-work from the Old Hall, Gainsborough', The Building News, Vol LVII, no. 1817, pp. 586 & 588.
Gardner, J. S., 1898, 'Iron Casting in the Weald', Archaeologia, 56, 1, pp. 133-164.
Gardner, J. S., 25 May 1907, 'Old Wealden Ironwork at Warnham Court', Country Life, pp. 730-2.
Gardner, J. S., 30 Apr 1904, 'An old fire-back' (letter), Country Life, p. 647.
Garner, T. and Stratton, A., 1911, The Domestic Architecture of England during the Tudor Period, Part III (London, Batsford), pp. 240-2 and pl. CLXXIX.
Gentle, R. & Feild, R., 1994, Domestic Metalwork 1640-1820 (Woodbridge, Antique Collectors' Club), pp. 332-3.
Giuseppi, M. S., 1903, 'Rake in Witley [etc.]', Surrey Archaeological Collections, 18, pp. 11-60.
Godfrey, W. H., 1933, Survey of London Monograph 13, Swakeleys, Ickenham (London, HMSO).
Goodwin-Smith, R., 1936, 'Some English Firebacks', The Connoisseur, 97, pp. 36-8.
Griffith, H. (ed.), 1886, 'Notes and Queries No. 3: Sussex Iron Fireback', Sussex Archaeological Collections, 34, p. 259.
Hamling, T., 2010, Decorating the 'Godly' Household (New Haven, Yale), pp. 251-2.
Hamling, T., 2015, 'Seeing Salvation in the Domestic Hearth in Post-Reformation England' in J. Willis (ed.), Sin and Salvation in Reformation England (Farnham, Ashgate Publishing), 223-44.
Hannah, I. C., 1919, 'Notes and Queries No. 4 Fire-back from the old Anchor Inn at Hartfield, now in Pennsylvania', Sussex Archaeological Collections, 60, p. 146.
Harper, C. G., 1906, The Brighton Road (London, Chapman & Hall), p. 391.
Hayden, A., 1912, Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse Furniture (Unwin, London).
Herskamp, W, 2007, Die Eiserne Bibel (Helios, Aachen).
Hodgkinson, J. & Quinn, P., Dec 2013, 'The Two Martyrs Fireback: Further comments ...', Sussex Past and Present, 131, p. 8.
Hodgkinson, J. S., 2007, 'A Godly chimney plate and other firebacks from Brede', Wealden Iron, 2nd ser., 27, pp. 18-26.
Hodgkinson, J. S., 2010, British Cast-Iron Firebacks of the 16th to Mid-18th Centuries (Crawley, Hodgers Books).
Hodgkinson, J. S., 2012, 'Pre-Restoration Iron Firebacks', Journal of the Antique Metalware Society, 20, pp. 2-15.
Hodgkinson, J. S., 2013, 'A Pope family fireback', Wealden Iron, Bulletin of the Wealden Iron Research Group, 33, pp. 27-31.
Hodgkinson, J. S., 2014, 'A Seventeenth-Century Sussex Woodcarver: The Evidence of Cast Ironwork', Regional Furniture, 28, pp. 39-48.
Hodgkinson, J. S., 2016, 'The 'Europa' fireback at Preston Manor, Brighton', Sussex Archaeological Collections, 154, pp. 297-9.
Hodgkinson, J. S., 2017, 'Church Armorials and Firebacks: Evidence of an Early 17th-Century Woodcarver', Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 135, pp. 213-223.
Hodgkinson, J. S., 2018, 'A series of Kentish firebacks and the possible identification of their founder', Archaeologia Cantiana, 139, pp. 312-15.
Hodgkinson, J. S., 2018, 'The Anne Forster Firebacks', Surrey Archaeological Collections, 101, 99-114.
Hodgkinson, J. S., 2020, 'A Skillet Handle on a Fireback', Journal of the Antique Metalware Society, 25 (2020), pp. 48-51.
Hodgkinson, J. S., 2022, 'A Tudor Fireback Stamp: the progressive deterioration of its condition as evidence of the relative age of castings', Journal of the Antique Metalware Society, 27, pp. 42-5.
Hodgkinson, J. S., 2024, 'Three comparable royal arms from Somerset churches', Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, 168, pp. 97-100.
Hodgkinson, J. S., Autumn 2005, ‘An Ashburnham Fireback’, WIRG Newsletter, 42, Newsletter of the Wealden Iron Research Group, p. 8.
Hodgkinson, J. S., Autumn 2011, 'A memorial fireback from Withyham, East Sussex', Wealden Iron Research Group Newsletter 54, p. 9.
Hodgkinson, J. S., Autumn 2020, 'A Series of Distinctive Firebacks', Base Thoughts, Newsletter of the Antique Metalware Society, pp. 7-8.
Hodgkinson, J. S., Jan 2026, ‘Further discoveries relating to church armorials’, Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society e-bulletin.
Hodgkinson, J. S., Spring 2022, 'The Boughton House Firebacks', Base Thoughts, Newsletter of the Antique Metalware Society, pp. 10-11.
Hodgkinson, J. S., Spring 2024, 'A Tudor Fireback Rediscovered', Base Thoughts, Newsletter of the Antique Metalware Society, p. 11.
Holden, E. S., 1897, 'The Holden Family of Cranbrook, Kent, England', New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 51, pp. 214-218.
Holgate, M. S., 1918, 'The Anne Forster Grave Slab', Sussex Archaeological Collections, 59, pp. 130-1.
Holgate, M. S., n.d., The Parish Church of St Peter, Ardingly: Historical and Architectural Notes.
Hughes, G. B., 1960, Collecting Antiques (London, Country Life), pp. 85-93.
Hughes, G. B., 21 Apr 1955, 'Old English Firebacks', Country Life, 117, pp. 1056-60.
Hughes, G. B., May 1940, 'Old English Firebacks', Apollo, 31, 185, pp. 117-120.
Hughes, G. B., Sep 1929, 'Old English Firebacks in the Collection of Mr John H. Every', Old Furniture, 8, pp. 28-32.
Jekyll, G., 1903, Old West Surrey, London, Longmans.
Jones, G. V., Autumn/Winter 2023, 'Dirgelwch i rywun ei ddatrys' [A Mystery for Someone to Solve], Gwreiddiau Gwynedd Roots, 85, 2, pp. 6-7.
Kippenberger, A. 1973, Die Kunst der Ofenplatten (Düsseldorf, Verlag Stahleisen), p. 107.
Kissack, K., 2003, Monmouth and its Buildings (Almeley, Logaston Press).
Law, E., 1898, The History of Hampton Court Palace, vol 2 (London, George Bell & Sons), p. 256.
Lenygon, F., 1914, Decoration in England (London, Batsford).
Lethaby, W. R., 1 Oct 1926, 'English Cast Iron - I', The Builder, 131, no. 4365, pp. 537-8.
Lindsay, J. S., 1927, Iron & Brass Implements of the English House (London, The Medici Society).
Lintin, B., Spring/Summer 2024, 'Twists of Fate: a Mystery mostly solved', Gwreiddiau Gwynedd Roots, 86, 1, pp. 43-45.
Llewellin, W., 1863, 'Sussex Ironmasters in Glamorganshire', Archaeologia Cambrensis, 3rd ser., 9, pp. 89-91.
Lloyd, N., 1925, 'Domestic Ironwork I', Architectural Review, 58, pp. 58-67.
Lower, M. A., 1849, 'Iron Works of the County of Sussex', Sussex Archaeological Collections, 2, pp. 169-220 (esp. pp. 188-9).
Lower, M. A., 1852, 'Monumental iron slab of Anne Forster', Sussex Archaeological Collections, 5, pp. 202-4.
Lower, M. A., 1866, 'The Antiquities preserved in the Museum of Lewes Castle', Sussex Archaeological Collections, 18, pp. 60-73.
Manning, O. & Bray, W., 1809, History of Surrey Vol. II (London, John White), p. 369n.
Meehan, J., 1906, 'The Arms of the O'Rourkes: a metal casting from County Leitrim seventeenth-century foundries', Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 36, 2, pp. 123-142.
Mercer, H. C., 1961, The Bible in Iron (3rd ed. Doylestown, The Bucks County Historical Society).
Moore, S., 1999, Cutlery for the Table (Sheffield, The Hallamshire Press).
Moran, M., 2003, Vernacular Buildings of Shropshire (Almeley, Logaston Press).
Mullin, D., 1989, 'Two Firebacks', The New Regard, Forest of Dean Local History Society, 5, pp. 47-50.
Mushet, D., 1840, Papers on Iron and Steel (London, John Weale), p. 393.
Nygard-Nilssen, A., 1944, Norsk Jernskulptur (Oslo, Cappelens Forlag).
Ogilvy, J. S., 1914, A Pilgrimage in Surrey, vol. 2 (London, G. Routledge & Sons), p. 8.
Page, S. & Wallace, M. (eds.), 2018, Spellbound (Oxford, Ashmolean Museum), p. 72.
Paine, C., Aug 2013, 'Mystery of the Two Martyrs', Sussex Past and Present, 130, pp. 6-7.
Palasi, P., 2014, Plaques de Cheminées Héraldiques (Paris, Éditions Gourcuff-Gradenigo).
Peacock, E., 1881, [note on Iron Slab with armorial bearings found at Blyton, near Gainsborough], Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, 2nd series, 8, pp. 44-5.
Pesch, D., 1982, Herdgussplatten (Rheinland-Verlag, Koln).
Phillips, C. T., 1894, 'Interesting additions to the museum', Sussex Archaeological Collections,39, pp. 214-5.
Powis, Earl of, 1940, 'Notes on the Gates, Terraces and Firebacks at Powis Castle', Montgomeryshire Collections, 46, 2, pp. 194-195.
Randall, J., 1879, Broseley and its Surroundings (Madeley, The Salopian and West-Midland Journal), pp. 98-99.
Riden, P., 1985, George Sitwell's Letterbook, 1662-66 (Derbyshire Record Society vol. 10).
Robertson, S., 1882, 'Richard Tichbourne's House of Crippenden, in Cowden', Archaeologia Cantiana, 14, p. 153.
Robertson, W. A. S., 1886, 'Squerryes Court, the Camp and the Pictures', Archaeologia Cantiana, 16, pp. 134-141.
Roundell, Mrs C. (J. A. E. T.), 1907, Cowdray: The History of a Great English House (London, Bickers & Son), pp. 28-9.
Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of England, 1932, An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, Volume 2: East (London, HMSO).
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, 1981, An Inventory of Ancient Monuments of Glamorgan Vol IV Part 1: Domestic Architecture from the Reformation to the Industrial Revolution: the Greater Houses (Cardiff, HMSO).
Russell, A. J., 1978, 'The Fireback in Willey Farmhouse, Chaldon', Local History Records, 17 (The Bourne Society), pp. 8-9.
Russell, S., Parker, R. & Chidson, V., 2000, Waldron: Portrait of a Sussex village (Horam, Tartarus Press).
S. M. W. [Spencer Maryon-Wilson], 23 Apr 1904, 'An old fireback' [letter], Country Life, p. 611.
Schubert, H. R., 1950, 'A Rare Group of Wealden Firebacks', Journal of the Iron & Steel Institute, 165, pp. 39-40.
Schubert, H. R., 1957, 'A Forgery in Iron', Journal of the Iron & Steel Institute, 165, p. 125.
Schubert, H. R., 1957, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry (London, Routledge), pp. 256-264.
Schubert, H. R., Aug 1950, ‘Old English Iron Firebacks’, Steel News, 2, 2, p. 8.
Schubert, H. R., Jan 1954, 'Historical Note No. 33: A Famous English Fireback of 1548', Journal of the Iron & Steel Institute, 176, p. 63.
Seewaldt, P., 1988, Herdgussplatten: Katalog der Herdgussplatten des Rheinischen Landesmuseums Trier (Trier, Rheinisches Landesmuseum).
Shuffrey, L. A., 1912, The English Fireplace, London, Batsford.
Smail, H. C. P., Apr 1939, 'Iron Firebacks' [letter], Sussex County Magazine, 13, 4, p. 284.
St John Hope, W. H. (ed.), 1894, Illustrated Catalogue of the Heraldic Exhibition at Burlington House, Society of Antiquaries.
Steer, F. W., Jan 1957, 'Notes on an early fireback at Yale University', The Yale University Library Gazette, 31, 3, pp. 137-141.
Stenning, J. C., 1868, 'Notes on East-Grinstead', Sussex Archaeological Collections, 20, pp. 151-2.
Straker, E., 1931, Wealden Iron (London, Bell).
Todhunter, A., c.1910, Gleanings from Old English Firesides (New York, Arthur Todhunter), p. 3.
Town, E. & McShane, A., 2020, Marking Time: Objects, People and their Lives 1500-1800 (New Haven, Yale Center for British Art), p. 213.
Traill, H. D. & Mann, J. S., 1902, Social England vol. III, (London, Cassell), p. 732.
Trower, C. F., 1869, 'Burwash', Sussex Archaeological Collections, 21, p. 113.
Turner, E., 1861, 'The College and Priory of Hastings and the Priory of Warbleton', Sussex Archaeological Collections, 13, p. 161.
Wall, J. R. S., 20 May 1965, 'Wealden Fireback' [letter], Country Life, p. 1208.
Weaver, L., 1914, Small Country Houses: their repair and enlargement (London, Country Life).
Westropp, M. S. D. (ed.), 1912, General Guide to the Art Collections, Part VI, Metalwork, Chapter V, Iron (Dublin, National Museum of Science and Art).
Whistler, R. F., 1888, 'Penhurst: being some account of its Iron Works, Manor House, Church, etc.,' Sussex Archaeological Collections, 36, pp. 1-18.
Windyer Morris, G. T., 4 Oct 1902, 'Arms on Fireback', Notes and Queries, 9th series, 10, p. 278.
Wolseley, F. G. (Viscountess), 2008, Historic Houses of East Sussex and their Owners (Bakewell, Country Books), pp. 259-264.
Wolseley, F. G. (Viscountess), Nov 1934, 'Historic Houses of Sussex, No. 86, The Manor House, Ripe', Sussex County Magazine, 8, 11, pp. 660-664.
Current location
Museum group
Any
Ahrgau-Museum, Ahrweiler
Ashmolean Museum
Birmingham Museums Trust
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Bradford Museums and Art Galleries
Brighton Museum
Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives
Caerphilly County Borough Council Museums & Heritage Service
Colchester & Ipswich Museums Service
Dartford Museum
Dorset County Museum
English Heritage
Eton College
Farnham Museum
Folkestone Library and Heritage Centre
Gloucester Museums
Godalming Museum
Guildford Museum
Haslemere Educational Museum
Hastings Museum
Heritage Ireland
Hertford Museum
Historic Deerfield
Historic England
Horniman Museum
Horsham Museum
Hull Museums
Leicester City Museums
Leuven Museum
Lincolnshire County Council
Littlehampton Museum
London Metropolitan Archives
Ludlow Museum
Maidstone Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum Rotterdam
Museum of London
Museum of London
Museums Sheffield
Musée Gaumais, Virton
National Maritime Museum
National Monuments Record of Wales
National Museum Wales
National Museum of Ireland
National Trust
Rijksmuseum
Rochester Guildhall Museum
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham
Rottingdean Preservation Society
Royal Collection
Saffron Walden Museum
Selly Manor
Shakespeare's Birthplace Trust
Stoke-on-Trent Museums
Stroud Museum
Sussex Archaeological Society
The Museum of Cambridge
Tolsey Museum, Burford
Tunbridge Wells Museum
Victoria & Albert Museum
Weald and Downland Living Museum
Welsh National History Museum
Winchester Museums
Wrexham County Borough Museums
Series / type
Series / type
Any
'Dutch' 1695 Crown series
'Dutch' 1696 NL series
'Dutch' Arched arch types
'Dutch' Bird on perch firebacks
'Dutch' Border only firebacks
'Dutch' Borderless series
'Dutch' Continents firebacks
'Dutch' Dolphin series
'Dutch' GK series
'Dutch' Garden of Holland firebacks
'Dutch' HHS series
'Dutch' HIS series
'Dutch' LC/G series
'Dutch' Miscellaneous Firebacks
'Dutch' NDW series
'Dutch' Susanna and the Elders firebacks
'Dutch' Venus and Adonis firebacks
'Dutch' tall arch series
1568 Architectural series
1582 IA series
1586 series
1589 series
1618 series
1619 series
1620s Dean series
1630s HPE series
1634 stamp series
1640-50s Dean series
1642 Pelham series
1650s Wealden series
1658 arched series
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Abraham & Isaac firebacks
Adam & Eve firebacks
Agriculture firebacks
Andiron slot firebacks
Angel series
Anglo-French armorial firebacks
Anne Forster series
Armada series
Armorial panel firebacks
Ashburnham family firebacks
Ashburnham late series
Ayloffe series
Baroque series
Base boards
Bergavenny firebacks
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Brede group
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British 'Dutch' style firebacks
Carolean 'Dutch' series
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Cavendish arms series
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Cord-linked initials firebacks
Corporate firebacks
Courthope arms series
Cowdray firebacks
Crossed square Wealden series
Date & initials firebacks
Date only firebacks
De Vos Planets series
Devonport arms series
Diamond series
Dorset arms series
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EB series
Earl of Leicester series
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Edwardian royal armorial firebacks
Eight Deities series
Elector of Brandenburg firebacks
Elements firebacks
Elizabethan royal armorial firebacks
Elizabethan royal greyhound series
Epitaph firebacks
Esther stoveplates
Figurine firebacks
Firedog stamp firebacks
Fireplace back plates
Fleur rope terminal series
Fleur-de-lys firebacks
Flower Vase 'Dutch' types
Food mould stamp firebacks
Foreign armorial firebacks
Fowle series
Free-standing firebacks
Fruit basket firebacks
Furniture stamp firebacks
Gadrooned vase firebacks
Garden design types
Garter error series
George Shaw series
Gothic panel series
Griffin series
Grooved dowel series
Hand print firebacks
Hanoverian royal armorial firebacks
Heart cross stamp series
Henry Nevill series
Herefordshire armorial series
Hollow fleur Dean series
Hollow saltire series
Hooked '1' series
Hope firebacks
IB series
IM series
Initials only firebacks
Ironmasters armorial series
Jacobean royal armorial firebacks
Jacobean royal initials series
James II royal armorial firebacks
John Harvo series
Joshua and Caleb firebacks
Judgement of Paris firebacks
King David firebacks
Knife & Dagger stamp firebacks
Large diamond fleur series
Late pictorial series (all)
Late pictorial series 1
Late pictorial series 2
Late pictorial series 4
Late pictorial series 5
Late pictorial series 6
Lifting handle firebacks
Livery company firebacks
Loop edged firebacks
Loop stamp (early) series
Loop stamp (late) series
Looped fleur series
Low relief armorial series
Ludlow series
Marriage at Cana stoveplates
Martin Charteris firebacks
Mayfield 'Dutch' series
Maynard arms firebacks
Metalware stamp firebacks
Miscellaneous pattern firebacks
Miscellaneous royal firebacks
Miscellaneous stamp firebacks
Mohun series
Montagu arms firebacks
Mountjoy series
N series
New Testament firebacks
Newent area group
Old Testament & Apocrypha firebacks
Ornament stamp firebacks
Ornate border series
Patterns
Paulet firebacks
Pedimented rose and crown series
Pelham buckle and lozenge series
Pelham family firebacks
Personal armorial firebacks
Personal firebacks
Petworth lettering series
Phoenix firebacks
Pierrepont series
Pounsley series
Primitive stamp series
Prince of Wales firebacks
Prince of Wales' feathers series
RN series
Rawlinson series
Religious firebacks
Richard Graye inscription series
Rope design firebacks
Rose-en-soleil series
Royal (wreath) series
Royal series
Royalist series
SHR series
Sackville firebacks
Shortened '5' series
Small arch series
Small cavetto series
Solomon and Sheba firebacks
Spindle series
Spindle/distaff firebacks
Square cross Dean series 1
Square cross Dean series 2
St Fagans series
Stanhope series
Stapled scroll series
Stepped firebacks
Stoveplates
Stuart arms composite series
Stuart royal armorial firebacks
Swan series
TAN series
Talbot crest series
Triangle arch series
Tudor redated series
Tudor royal armorial (plain) series
Tudor royal armorial firebacks
Twin miseries series
Vine strip series
Virtues and Faults firebacks
W series
Welsh armorial firebacks
Welsh inscription series
William Yalden series
Woman of Samaria stoveplates
Worge/Collier series
Wriothesley firebacks
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