Hardware merchandising January-June 1897 . e the fitterfinds it hard to suit the tastes of the personhaving the work done. This is a frequentoccurrence with fancy and ornamental radi-ators. Why ? Because the steam-fitter hasnot the experience in the shading and blend-ing of colors that a practical radiator deco-rator has acquired through his daily workand years of experience, and, in most caseswhere an artistic decoration is required, willuse a horrible combination of color, at leastnot satisfactory to the parties having thework done. Combinations of colored bronzes whoseshades are near to eac
Hardware merchandising January-June 1897 . e the fitterfinds it hard to suit the tastes of the personhaving the work done. This is a frequentoccurrence with fancy and ornamental radi-ators. Why ? Because the steam-fitter hasnot the experience in the shading and blend-ing of colors that a practical radiator deco-rator has acquired through his daily workand years of experience, and, in most caseswhere an artistic decoration is required, willuse a horrible combination of color, at leastnot satisfactory to the parties having thework done. Combinations of colored bronzes whoseshades are near to each other ought to beavoided carefully, especially gold with anyother color with a light contrast. Followingare a few pretty combinations in bronzewhere two colors are used : Gold and aluminum,Gold and green,Gold and copper,Copper and gold, Aluminum and gold,Copper and green,Green and copper,Green and gold, and many other combinations when the KIXINIXIXIXINIXIXIXIXIJOXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIX ARMSTRONG MANTG. CO. I. 5 Ur Qig^g^ /ffllFll CATALOGUES ON APPLICATION Kixixixixixixixixr1 BRIDGEPORT. CONN* ixixixixixixixixix HARDWARE AND METAL •25 colors of the room require it. A beautifuland quiet effect is produced by bronzing aradiator with black bronze and decoratingthe ornamental parts with gold bronze. A DESCRIPTION OF JOINT WIPING. The London Plumber and Decorator, as aresult of a competition they inaugurated,printed the following description of jointwiping by H. W. Esau, who received thefirst prize : A defective and bad joint is generally putdown to bad solder, but more often it shouldbe ascribed to bad preparation, for it is inthe preparation that the soundness and ap-pearance of the joint depends, and so shouldbe considered one of the principal details. The length of pipe should first be straight-ened on a firm, level bench, a mandreldriven through, fitting the pipe tightly, andflapped with a lead flapper, at the same timerolling the pipe with the o
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