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1023
Description: Canted rectangle; hatched fillet edging (top and sides); initials in triad to the left; fleur-de-lys stamp repeated seven times across top; date and initial pairs below; full width, horizontal hatched fillet below inscription; zig-zag formed of short, hatched fillets down each side below horizontal fillet; space within bordered by squared cross stamp repeated 12 times horizontally and six times on each side.
Notes: The distinctive squared cross and fleur stamps are seen on other firebacks; the initials in triad may relate to a husband and wife, the pairs of initials to their children; an almost identical fireback seen at Smith's Funeral Services, close to the site of Elmbridge Furnace, at Newent, Gloucestershire, differs only in the alignment of the left-hand column of squared crosses.
Inscription: AHE [triad] 1671 WH MH
- Decoration tags:
- canted rectangular (shape)
- hatched fillet (edging)
- simple stamps
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- heraldic
- text
- objects
Manufactured: in 1671 possibly at Elmbridge Furnace, Newent in the Forest of Dean area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Coombes, West Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Square cross Dean series
- Date & initials firebacks
- Newent area group
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356
Description: Canted rectangle; twisted rope edging (top and sides); bearded face stamp repeated in top corners and below inscription; date along top edge; initials split by date and slightly below.
Notes: The distinctive style of the ‘4’ in the date and the bearded mask stamp have also been noted on a fireback at Callow Farm, Dymock, Gloucestershire, associated with the operator of the Newent furnace.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: E 1641 M
- Decoration tags:
- canted rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- text
- humans
Manufactured: in 1641 probably at Elmbridge Furnace, Newent in the Forest of Dean area of England.
Current location: Baddesley Clinton Hall, Knowle, Warwickshire, England.
Museum number: 342876 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous stamp firebacks
- Date & initials firebacks