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1250
Description: Plain rectangular shape; no edging; separate initials in top left corners.
Notes: The regular form of the letters suggest that they might be reused printing blocks.
Inscription: T F
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- none (edging)
- carved stamps
- text
Manufactured: in the 19th century in England.
Current location: in private hands, Isleworth, London, England.
- Attached to series:
- Initials only firebacks
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427
Description: Rectangular with three sem-circular arches on top, the middle arch higher and wider than the others; ovolo-moulded edging (top and sides); top centre, equestrian figure stamp; six small stamps of iconic figures down the sides, arranged in two columns.
Notes: An unusual fireback with stamps about 90mm high; the stamps are likely to have been cast from brass or iron mantelpiece ornaments, popular in the Victorian period. Formerly part of the J. H. Every collection.
- Decoration tags:
- triple-arched rectangular (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- carved stamps
- pictorial
- animals
- humans
Manufactured: in the 19th century in England.
Current location: Anne of Cleves House, Southover High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, England.
Museum number: 1944.24.089 (part of the Sussex Archaeological Society museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Ornament stamp firebacks
- Metalware stamp firebacks
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1031
Description: Rectangular; astragal and fillet edging; two heater-shaped shields side by side, with a stag trippant crest above centre.
Notes: The dexter shield: quarterly first and fourth - Mostyn baronet - Gules a saracen's head erased proper wreathed about the temples sable and argent; second and third, within a bordure a fess fusily (or three lozenges in fess); a baronet's inescutcheon in the centre chief. The sinister shield - Sale - Argent on a bend cotised three gryphons' heads erased. Crest (Mostyn), a stag trippant proper.
Arms: Left: Mostyn with unknown quartering; right: Sal, Sale, Salle or Salley
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- astragal & fillet (edging)
- carved stamps
- heraldic
- armorial
- animals
- humans
Manufactured: in the 19th century in England.
Current location: in private hands, Saxtead, Suffolk, England.
- Attached to series:
- Personal armorial firebacks
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944
Description: Cavetto-canted arched rectangular shape; double fillet edging on top, pilasters with diagonal striping at sides; double bead and pellet moulding parallel to, and inside fillet, enclosing pictorial representation of Joshua and Caleb carrying an outsize bunch of grapes; below them, at each side, a basket of flowers and fruit, and between them a cartouche with a date; on top, two symmetrical cornucopiae spilling their contents down the canted shoulders of the plate; at bottom, a plain extension panel.
Notes: The image is derived from a fireback of c.1700, in the series identified by the letters GK, as is the date cartouche. This is a contrived design using elements from another fireback.
Inscription: [indecipherable poss. 1700]
- Decoration tags:
- cavetto-canted arched rectangular (shape)
- complex individual (edging)
- carved pattern panels
- extension panels
- pictorial
- biblical
- text
- humans
- plants
Manufactured: in the 19th century in France.
Current location:, not known.
- Attached to series:
- Joshua and Caleb firebacks
- 'Dutch' GK series