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22
Description: Arched rectangular shaped; fillet edging; a lion rampant
Notes: Whole pattern. A modern design of fireback
Copies of this fireback are known.
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- heraldic
- animals
Manufactured: in the late 19th to early 20th century in England.
Current location: St Mary's House, Bramber, West Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous pattern firebacks
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319
Description: Arched rectangular shape; cyma-reversa edging; Tudor royal shield, garter, crown, motto and supporters (crowned lion and dragon); Tudor rose to right of lion’s head, portcullis to left of dragon’s head; temp. Elizabeth I.
Notes: Cast from a modern pattern copying a Tudor original by Thomas Elsley Ltd., of london.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: [Garter] HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE / [motto] DIEV ET MON DROIT.
Arms: Tudor royal - Elizabeth I
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- cyma reversa/ogee (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- armorial
- royal
- text
Manufactured: in the late 19th to early 20th century at Portland Metal Works, Great Titchfield Street furnace in the London area of England.
Current location:, England.
- Attached to series:
- Tudor royal armorial firebacks
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180
Description: Rectangular: fillet edging; top left, standing classically dressed female figure playing a lyre, with short column behind; top right, classically dressed female figure leaning on a short column; top centre, hatted figure of a bearded man with bagpipes on his back, riding a horse.
Notes: An unusual group of stamps, possibly derived from brass chimney ornaments; the middle figure seems to have little in common with the other two.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- carved stamps
- animals
- humans
Manufactured: in the late 19th to early 20th century in England.
Current location: Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, John's Place, Bohemia Road, Hastings, East Sussex, England.
Museum number: 952.51.66 (part of the Hastings Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Metal ornament stamp firebacks
- Metalware stamp firebacks
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330
Description: Rectangular; plain edge; top centre, ring between repeated lion's head between repeated narrow human figure with folded arms standing on a bracket; below each figure, a small bracket.
Notes: The figures are indistinct and are disproportionately small for the size of the firebacks; from Isfield Place 1921.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- none (edging)
- simple stamps
- carved stamps
- animals
- humans
- objects
Manufactured: in the late 19th to early 20th century in England.
Current location: Horsham Museum, Causeway, Horsham, West Sussex, England.
(part of the Horsham Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous stamp firebacks
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331
Description: Rectangular; no edging; inscription evenly spaced along top, sans serif lettering.
Inscription: IS D T IS
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- none (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- text
Manufactured: in the late 19th to early 20th century in England.
Current location: Horsham Museum, Causeway, Horsham, West Sussex, England.
(part of the Horsham Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Initials only firebacks
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365
Description: Arched rectangular shape; astragal edging with parallel astragal enclosing a border of undulating convolvulus vine, leaves and flowers; bead and disc circle in arch, above a pair of lions rampant facing each other, between which are a five-pointed star above a rose.
Notes: A fireback in a retro-Regency style
Copies of this fireback are known.
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- astragal (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- heraldic
- animals
Manufactured: in the late 19th to early 20th century in England.
Current location: in private hands, Lambourn, Berkshire, England.
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous pattern firebacks
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366
Description: Rectangular; astragal edging; shield motto and crest of the family of Lawrence.
Notes: Blazon: Ermine, on a cross raguly gules an eastern crown or, on a chief azure two swords in saltire proper pomels and hilts gold between as many leopards' heads argent; crest: out of an eastern crown or, a cubit arm entwined by a wreath of laurel and holding a dagger, all proper. These arms apply to neither the baronetcy nor the two baronies awarded to members of the Lawrence family, the mottoes of which also differ.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: IN GOD IS MY TRUST
Arms: Lawrence
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- astragal (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in the late 19th to early 20th century in England.
Current location: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England.
- Attached to series:
- Personal armorial firebacks