Leadwork, old and ornamental, and for the most part English (1893)
Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · London, Macmillan · leaf 141
XVII.] OF FTNIALS AND CRESTINGS 129 At Boiirges on the Hotels Jacques Cceur and Cujas are some finials consisting of little more than a lead-covered stick bearing a rod and … girouettes. Flags were properly only set up in the due heraldic precedence of the proprietor, a Knight might fly a pennon and so on ; they were centred at times on a piece of agate to reduce the friction of revolution. We have only to look at K
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