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175
Description: Quasi-arched rectangular with 5-facetted arch; cyma recta moulded edging (top and sides); in the centre, an oval Tudor royal shield on a cartouche surrounded by a garter, a crown above, separating the initials, ER, all on a larger cartouche.
Notes: An example at Chiddingstone in Kent has additional circular, crowned armorial stamps, linking it to firebacks dating fron 1589. Brightwells auction, Leominster, 16 Mar 2016, lot 704 (£220).
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: E / HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENCE / R
Arms: Tudor royal (Elizabeth I)
- Decoration tags:
- rectangle with pentagonal arch (shape)
- cyma recta (edging)
- carved stamps
- planklines
- armorial
- royal
- text
Manufactured: in the late 16th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location:, not known.
- Attached to series:
- 1589 series
- Tudor royal armorial firebacks
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150
Description: Rectangular with pentagonal arch; stepped fillet edging; six fleurs de lys - three in line at base of arch, two near top corners of rectangle, one in middle of rectanngle.
Notes: Other firebacks based on the same shape but with different edging suggests the use of a common base board, but with the edging and other decoration varied to order.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangle with pentagonal arch (shape)
- stepped fillet (edging)
- carved stamps
- heraldic
Manufactured: in the late 16th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, John's Place, Bohemia Road, Hastings, East Sussex, England.
Museum number: HASMG: 1908.175 (part of the Hastings Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous stamp firebacks
