The practical book of early American arts and crafts . Fio. 6. Leaden Rain-water Head made for the old building of the Philadelphia Library in Library Street. Collection of Pennsylvania Historical Society. mounted on wooden shields and attached as badges tothe fronts of eighteenth-century Philadelphia houses(the custom was continued well into the nineteenthcentury) by the two old fire insurance^ companies theContributionship and the Mutual Assurance (see TheColonial Homes of Philadelphia and Its Neighbour-hood, Eberlein and Lippincott, pages 33-35), werecast in lead and then painted. Lead was
The practical book of early American arts and crafts . Fio. 6. Leaden Rain-water Head made for the old building of the Philadelphia Library in Library Street. Collection of Pennsylvania Historical Society. mounted on wooden shields and attached as badges tothe fronts of eighteenth-century Philadelphia houses(the custom was continued well into the nineteenthcentury) by the two old fire insurance^ companies theContributionship and the Mutual Assurance (see TheColonial Homes of Philadelphia and Its Neighbour-hood, Eberlein and Lippincott, pages 33-35), werecast in lead and then painted. Lead was also occasionally used for casting the fine DECORATIVE METAL WORK 73 detail—swags and drops or urns and similar forms—tobe applied to the frieze of cornices on houses designedin the Adam style of late Georgian work. TIN Not a few well-fashioned articles of household utility-were made of tin and decorated in various ways. The.
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