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    A fireplace fireback is a piece of heavy cast iron, sized in proportion to the fireplace and the fire, which is placed against the back wall of the fireplace...
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    fuel for a fire. Heavy metal firebacks are sometimes used to capture and re-radiate heat, to protect the back of the fireplace, and as decoration. Fenders...
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  • Fireback may refer to: Fireback (film) Fireplace fireback Pheasants Crested fireback Crestless fireback Siamese fireback This disambiguation page lists...
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    liberation". As a form of devotion to our Lady of Luxembourg, Takenplatte or firebacks were moulded with her image. They usually depict the Virgin Mary with...
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    Andiron (category Fireplaces)
    entirely of iron, were of comparatively plain design. Indeed, andirons and firebacks were one of the first types of object commonly made in cast iron (introduced...
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    of Edward and Elizabeth his wife are central on the fire surround and fireback, which is prominently dated 1867. The inlay features the White Rose of...
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    produced its first pig iron on March 9, 1743. Early products included fireplace firebacks embossed with the royal coat-of-arms of Great Britain during the...
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    early iron smelting regions the back wall was protected by an iron fireback. The fireplace is a three-sided incombustible box containing a grate that allows...
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    Jesus (19th century) Baptism wishes (1812) Pottery from Soufflenheim Fireplace fireback (1684) with coat of arms of the Counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg Reverse...
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    Great Hall complete with Elizabethan panelling and a large Tudor fireplace with fireback dated 1571. The house also has its own panelled private chapel...
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    Potts family for three generations. Numerous surviving stoveplates and firebacks feature biblical scenes and verses and are marked with the family name...
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    brick. Herringbone work, particularly in stone, is also used to make firebacks in stone hearths. Acidic flue gases tend to corrode lime mortar, so a...
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    drawing room. Sicilian marble columns and fireplaces were added in the public rooms, the cast-iron firebacks displaying the quartered arms of Shaw Lefevre...
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    five-bay, stone dwelling with a gambrel roof. It has ten fireplaces, some with iron firebacks. Peter Legaux was the owner of "Spring Mill," a nearby gristmill...
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    Regina. The cast-iron fireback and andirons commemorate the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and an inscription above the fireplace is from Shakespeare's...
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    Great Hall complete with Elizabethan panelling and a large Tudor fireplace with fireback dated 1571. The house also has its own panelled private chapel...
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    seven fireplaces in the house, six have the original paneling, mantles, firebacks, marble facings, and hearths. The facings of three fireplaces are King...
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  • Newton" February 15, 2018 (February 15, 2018) Tommy and Charlie install a fireback on a kitchen wall. Roger returns the roses and lilacs he saved and brings...
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    was added on to the east at a later date. On the west are two exposed firebacks. The interior has undergone more extensive renovation than the exterior...
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    with C15 four centred arched doorways. Four centred arched stone fireplace with fireback dated 1610, possibly the date also of the wainscoting with fluted...
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    but it has seven doors and only one window, and how "the fireplace, or rather the fireback, is against the walls, so that there is in fact but one vent...
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    began construction of his house in the spring of 1767. A commemorative fireback with the inscription "Nov 5 CWK (Cornelius WynKoop)1772" on the first floor...
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    Paterson, Page 294 Mcgibbon, Page 393 Apotropaic Symbols on Cast Iron Firebacks British Listed Buildings. Retrieved : 2012-06-02 RCAHMS Record for Kilbirnie...
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