A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 519
METAL WOKK: liKON/K Al.lAl; I.N llli; ( A 1 11 I.I )l: Al,. BKUN6W1CK. METAL WORKwhen a hinge of wrought iron is to be made fora church door with deliberate decorative pur-pose, it is easy to terminate each strap by a seriesof brandies, partly by cutting the strap iron it-self and bending one sprig… … the others, and partly by forging otlier slenderbars and the like, which can be welded to tlieoriginal stem. The difficulty with such ironworkis, however, its extreme liability to nist and theconserjuent necessity of doing something to pro-tect the surface. (See what is said of the paint-ing of…
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