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Description: Arched rectangular shape; gadrooned edging (top and sides); initials, in separate stamps, at top of arch; date probably in separate stamps, below; spindle used as a stamp repeated three times, one between date and initial stamps, the other two below to left and right.
Notes: The same base board and spindle have been used for other firebacks of the same period. A similar casting (no. 1284) has the 'W' in a slightly different position.
Inscription: I W / 16 22
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with round arch (shape)
- gadrooned (edging)
- simple stamps
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- text
- objects
Manufactured: in 1622 possibly at Cuckfield Furnace in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Gwydir Castle, Trefriw, Conwy, Wales.
- Attached to series:
- Spindle series
- Date & initials firebacks
- Spindle/distaff firebacks
