Sheffield plate, its history, manufacture and art; with makers' names and marks, also a note on foreign Sheffield plate, with illustrations (1908)
Veitch, Henry Newton · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 89
6i CHASING AND PIERCING Fluting Fluting is a form of decoration somewhat allied to chasing, and executed by a method almost identical with embossing. The raising-stake or snarling-iron used was securely fixed in a vice, … Flutinc;. (Sand-cushion in use.) and the inside of the vessel to be fluted was placed against its face. The workman then produced a series of flutes by striking his stake or iron on the end nearest the vice, causing a rebound which marked or indented the vessel. The flutes were either spiral in…
Sheffield plate
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