Pieh Tool

D.S. Waite

Albany and Troy, New York, were preeminent among the ironmaking cities of nineteenth-century America. Their foundries produced thousands of cast-iron stoves, and Troy's rolling mills turned out millions of horseshoes. This book looks at another important aspect of this heritage: some of the finest architectural ironwork in America-railings, balconies, fences, and storefronts on buildings great and small.

Hull

There was scarcely a household in Britain that did not possess some items of pewter: bowls, plates, spoons, candlesticks, toys and buttons were some of the everyday objects made of this alloy of tin. Introduced to Britain by the Romans, the pewter trade became widespread in the middle ages, and English pewter became renowned for its high quality. The trade reached a peak in the seventeenth century.