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495
Description: Rectangular; twisted rope edging on top and sides; five stamps formed from a circular butter print with a diamond-shaped central element, divided in four, surrounded by a circular border with zig-zag pattern and a raised edge. The letters are interspaced with the top row of three stamps.
Notes: Butter prints were made of wood, and smaller than wafering irons. Formerly part of the J. H. Every collection.
Inscription: T T T B
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- simple stamps
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- text
- objects
Manufactured: in the 16th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Michelham Priory, Arlington, East Sussex, England.
Museum number: 1944.24.455 (part of the Sussex Archaeological Society museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Food mould stamp firebacks
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390
Description: Rectangular; plain plate with shield, supporters, ducal coronet, motto and garter of the Duke of Dorset: Quarterly, Or and gules, a bend vair.
Notes: Almost certainly the arms of Lionel Sackville KG (1688-1765), created first duke of Dorset in 1720. This particular design of fireback has been produced in a variety of sizes depending on the space around the achievement of arms
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE / AUT NUNQUAM TENTES, AUT PERFICE [Either do not attempt, or complete]
Arms: Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- none (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in the early 18th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands Milford, Surrey, England.
Citation: Lloyd, N., 1925, 'Domestic Ironwork I', Architectural Review, 58, pp. 58-67.
- Attached to series:
- Dorset arms series
- Personal armorial firebacks
- Sackville firebacks
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1169
Description: Rectangular shape; cyma reversa moulded edging (top and sides); top centre, initials EHA in triad; date split each side of initials.
Notes: Well formed and well spaced letters and numbers.
Inscription: 17 EHA [triad] 51
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- cyma reversa/ogee (edging)
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1751 in England.
Current location: Monmouth, Gwent, Wales.
- Attached to series:
- Date & initials firebacks
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846
Description: Rectangular; twisted rope edging (top and sides); floriated trefoil stamp repeated in two rows of four in the upper two-thirds of the plate; between the middle four stamps, two small crosses of twisted rope, one above the other; between each outer group of four stamps a large cross of twisted rope.
Notes: The floriated trefoils may have been derived from a metal ornament.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- simple stamps
- apotropaic
- objects
Manufactured: in the mid to late 16th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Barcombe, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous stamp firebacks
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504
Description: Rectangular; twisted rope edging (top and sides); along upper half of plate, date split with initials in between.
Notes: The initials are likely of William Yalden (d.1674), an ironmaster who was active in north-west Sussex and south-west Surrey where this and other similar firebacks have been noted.
Inscription: 16 WY 68
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1668 in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Northchapel, West Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- William Yalden series
- Date & initials firebacks
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505
Description: Rectangular; twisted rope edging (top and sides); inscription (‘S’ reversed) across upper middle of plate, with superscripted central ‘I’ (crossed) ; below each part of the date is a twisted rope saltire (145mm lengths).
Notes: A personal fireback, made to order; a similar commission by Giles Moore, Rector of Horsted Keynes, Sussex, in 1657, cost 13 shillings.
Inscription: I / 16 E S 63
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- simple stamps
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- apotropaic
- text
- objects
Manufactured: in 1663 in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Ockley, Surrey, England.
- Attached to series:
- Date & initials firebacks
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1086
Description: Fragment; rectangular shape; ovolo-moulded edging; image of an iron grate with barred front and integral andiron with iron or brass disc.
Notes: A unique example; it is not certain how the mould was formed, whether by impressing an actual grate or carving a pattern with the image of a grate; the former seems more likely.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- simple stamps
- objects
Manufactured: in the mid to late 17th century possibly in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Outwood, Surrey, England.
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous pattern firebacks
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907
Description: Rectangular; simulated twisted rope edging; top centre, shield, baron's coronet, supporters and crest; in each top corner, heraldic badge - a Sea Lion holding an anchor.
Notes: The arms are of Sir Hudson Ewbanke Kearley, Bt., 1st Baron Devonport (1856-1934); created 1910, he was elevated to Viscount in 1917, thus the fireback would have been cast between 1910 and 1917. Blazon: Azure in chief two Mitres Argent garnished Or and in base a Square Tower of the second, a baronet's badge in chief; Supporters: On either side a Sea Lion Argent crined finned and tufted Or each gorged with a Collar Gules charged with three Roses of the second and each supporting a Spear erect proper; Crest: An Ancient Ship Or the Mainsail Azure charged with a Sea Lion of the first; Motto: Fit Via Vi (The way is made through strength). A version with the same arms and badges has an arched rectangular shape and plain edging.
Inscription: FIT VIA VI
Arms: Hudson Ewbanke Kearley, 1st Baron Devonport (later 1st Viscount)
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- simulated rope (edging)
- carved stamps
- heraldic
- armorial
Manufactured: in the early 20th century in England.
Current location: in private hands, Penhurst, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Personal armorial firebacks
- Devonport arms series
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513
Description: Rectangular; complex (astragal & fillet/cavetto) moulded edging; initials across top, between split date.
Inscription: 16 WSG 98 [‘S’ reversed]
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- astragal and fillet/cavetto (edging)
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- planklines
- text
Manufactured: in 1698 in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Penshurst Place, Penshurst, Kent, England.
- Attached to series:
- Date & initials firebacks
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514
Description: Rectangular; ovolo-moulded edging (top and sides); inscription along top of plate.
Notes: The initials may relate to Robert, 2nd Earl of Leicester.
Inscription: R · 1647 · L
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1647 in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Penshurst Place, Penshurst, Kent, England.
- Attached to series:
- Date & initials firebacks