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1258
Description: Broken and fragmentary; canted quasi-rectangular shape, with sides inclined; twisted rope edging; top centre, date with initials below separated by a fleur-de-lys; seven fleurs-de-lys down each side, pints perpendicular to rope edging; a fleur beneath each initial, possibly other fleurs and another initial missing in between.
Notes: The fleurs-de-lys are of a distinctive form apparently unique to this series of firebacks.
Inscription: 1628 / S G
- Decoration tags:
- canted quasi-rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- simple stamps
- carved stamps
- heraldic
- text
Manufactured: in 1628 in the Forest of Dean area of England.
Current location: 31 Long Street, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England.
- Attached to series:
- 1620s Dean series
- Date & initials firebacks
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1089
Description: Canted quasi-rectangular shape with no edging; straight length of ?dowel placed parallel to top and to each side; square stamp with fillet edge and four diagonally quartered squares repeated five times, three rotated with sides 45 degrees to the vertical in top corners and slightly left of lower centre, and two, unrotated, repeated twice in bottom corners.
Notes: The square stamps may be pastry moulds.
- Decoration tags:
- canted quasi-rectangular (shape)
- none (edging)
- simple stamps
- carved stamps
- objects
Manufactured: in the mid to late 16th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Authentic Reclamation, Lymden Lane, Ticehurst, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Crossed square Wealden series
- Food mould stamp firebacks