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235
Description: Fragment; canted rectangle; twisted rope edging (top and sides); repeated scroll strip stamp along each side; date, top centre; a fleur-de-lys stamp repeated three times vertically down left side, probably mirrored on right side (top fleur visible).
Notes: Use of the same stamps indicates a common source with a variant dated 1692 (see Fireback no. 237).
Inscription: 1694
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with canted top corners (shape)
- rope (edging)
- simple stamps
- carved stamps
- individual numbers
- heraldic
- text
- objects
Manufactured: in 1694 possibly in the South Wales area of Wales.
Current location: National History Museum, St Fagans, Glamorgan, Wales.
Museum number: 61.49/3 (part of the Welsh National History Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- St Fagans series
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991
Description: Rectangular with fillet edging (top and sides) formed from separate strips, possible from furniture; date split by letters in triad; number '1' has a central knob.
Notes: The initials are believed to relate to Thomas and Mary Manser, who occupied the Star Inn, Waldron, East Sussex, in the seventeenth century.
Inscription: 16 TMM 94
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- simple stamps
- carved stamps
- text
Manufactured: in 1694 in the Weald area of England.
Current location: The Star Inn, Waldron, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Date & initials firebacks
