The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture .. (1910)
Hodgson, Frederick Thomas, 1836-1919 · Chicago, F. J. Drake & Co · leaf 238
metal, or a combination of metals, such asbrass with steel washers; for heavy work these washersshould always be used, the wearing parts being stronger. THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 237 The earliest form of hinge seems to have been in theform of an oak pin (A Fig. 139) shaped from the railitself,… … Figure 141 apparent, and the pin-joint gives place to wrought-ironhinges placed upon the face of the door and frame withartistic effect, and attached by means of large-headedhails (Fig. 140). During the Queen Anne and Chip-pendale periods, the hinges were delicately made of castbrass and fixed by…
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