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Cast iron grave slab lies beneath the altar
"Here lieth Anne Forster / Foster daughter and heyr to Thomas Gaynesford esquire deceased 18 of January 1591 leaving behind her 2 sons and 5 daughters"
The sons are labelled W & R
Anne was the daughter of Thomas Gainsford and Elizabeth daughter of William Ayloff www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/39d733 1517 of Hornchurch 1st husband of Audrey / Etheldreda Shaa 5th wife of her father
She was the grand daughter of Sir John Gaynesford 1540 and 4th wife Joan Poliver / and the great great grand daughter of John Gaynesford 1460 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/254tr3 and Anne Wakehurst
She m William Forster / Foster son of Robert Forster & Margaret daughter of William Tendring & Thomasine Sidney flic.kr/p/nH7usD
Children
1. William m1 1572 Elizabeth Draper 1605 widow of John Bowyer m2 1589 Margaret Clerke
1. Elizabeth
2. Bridget
She had for her share of the Gainsford estates the Manor of
Chellows in Crowhurst, her grandson and heir, Sir John Forster sold the manor in 1612,
The gravestone must have been made soon after her death as the mold for the inscription was quickly re-used by the workshop to make firebacks and stamped with te date 1593 !
These were made by running cast iron from the furnace into sand moulds, with various patterns including heraldic motifs. Here the pattern is of firedogs and fleur de lis, with the initials HM.
By kind permission of the Sussex Archaeological Society
sussexpast.co.uk/properties-to-discover/anne-of-cleves-house
The Couper Park is the site where the Helmsdale Castle once stood. Although, alas it became a rapidly crumbling ruin and was completely demolished in the early 1970s to make way for the new A9 road bridge over the Helmsdale River.
In the early 19th Century almost all of the inland settlements in the area were cleared of their inhabitants in order to make way for more profitable residents: sheep. Clearances took place right across the Highlands and Islands, but those perpetrated by the first Duke of Sutherland in this area were amongst the most notorious.
The castle had its beginnings in the 1460s. It was repaired and enlarged around 1600, but it was in 1567 that the famous tragedy was enacted that is said to have inspired the plot of Shakespeare's "Hamlet".
Isobel Sinclair, in a diabolical attempt to divert the line of succession to her own son, arranged to poison her visitors, the 11th Earl of Sutherland and his Countess and their son, while they were taking dinner at the castle. But the plan miscarried and the Earl's son did not drink the poisoned wine, while her own son did, as well as the Earl and Countess.
The original castle was square in shape and had been the hunting seat of the Sutherland family. A find in the Kildonan Strath was a cast iron fireback dated 1633. The grandson of the 11th Earl records that his brother, Sir Alexander Gordon of Navidale, was responsible for the repair of the castle, and his two sons were born there in 1614 and 1616; but in 1621, when the clan troubles were at their height, he built a castle at Torrish, in the Strath, and presumably took the fireback up to it. These ornamental slabs of cast iron were introduced when fireplaces were built into the wall, instead of the usual simple structure in the middle of the room.
Fireplace Insert Fireback Fireplace Grate Heater Furnace Heat Exchanger Heatilator Cord Firewood Rack Wood Pellet Basket Ash Tray
Fireback in the 1501 fireplace of the hall of Peterhouse College, Cambridge, with James I coat of arms. You can just about make out the lion of England on the left and the unicorn of Scotland on the right. The centre of the arms depicts the lions of England in the first and fourth quarters, the lion of Scotland in the second and the harp of Ireland in the third. The motto around the centre, now barely legible, reads: "Honi soit qui mal y pense"; 'Evil be to him who evil thinks'*, and the motto at the bottom reads: "Dieu et mon Droit": 'God and my Right'. Dated 1618.
*Hang on a minute... isn't that an 'evil' thing to think?
(lophura diardi) The Siamese Fireback is distributed to the lowland and evergreen forests of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia. This species is also designated as the national bird of Thailand.
(lophura diardi) The Siamese Fireback is distributed to the lowland and evergreen forests of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia. This species is also designated as the national bird of Thailand.
(lophura diardi) The Siamese Fireback is distributed to the lowland and evergreen forests of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia. This species is also designated as the national bird of Thailand.
(lophura diardi) The Siamese Fireback is distributed to the lowland and evergreen forests of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia. This species is also designated as the national bird of Thailand.
Vanderbilt Mantelpiece
•Maker: Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, Dublin 1848–1907 Cornish, New Hampshire)
•Date: ca. 1881–83
•Geography: Made in New York, New York, United States
•Culture: American
•Medium: Marble, mosaic, oak, and cast iron
•Dimensions: 184⅜ × 154⅞ × 37¼ in. (468.3 × 393.4 × 94.6 cm)
•Classification: Architecture
•Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt II, 1925
•Accession Number: 25.234
This mantelpiece originally dominated the entrance hall of the residence of Cornelius Vanderbilt II on Fifth Avenue at 57th Street (demolished 1925-27). Working for the architect George B. Post, the artist John La Farge (1835-1910) created a lavish decorative program, to which Saint-Gaudens contributed many of the sculptural elements. Two classical caryatids, Amor (Love) and Pax (Peace), support the expansive entablature with bowed heads and upraised arms. The overmantel mosaic depicts a classically dressed woman holding a garland. The Latin phrase of hospitality flanking her head may be translated as “the house at its threshold gives evidence of the master’s good will. Welcome to the guest who arrives; farewell and helpfulness to him who departs.”
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription: [in mosaic, left cartouche] DEO / NON • / FORTUNE; [in mosaic, top center] DOMVS • IN • LIMINE • DOMINI / VOLVNTATEM • BONAM • / MONSTRAT • HOSPTI / INVENTI • SALVTATIO / VELEDICTO • ADIVM / ENTVMOVE • EXEVNTO; [above caryatids, left] AMOR; [right] PAX; [on fireback, monograms, each repeated three times n shiled] CV / AGV; [in center of oak entablature] v
Provenance
Cornelius Vanderbilt II, New York, 1882–until d. 1899; his widow Mrs. Cornelius (Alice Gwynne) Vanderbilt II, until 1925
Timeline of Art History (2000-Present)
Essays
•Augustus Saint–Gaudens (1848–1907)
Timelines
•The United States and Canada, 1800–1900 A.D.
MetPublications
•American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1865
•The American Wing: A Guide
•Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
•[adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 66, no 4 (Spring, 2009)]
•Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master Sculptor
•A Walk Through The American Wing
18TGR16TD Fireback Fireplace Grate Heater Furnace Heat Exchanger Heatilator Cord Firewood Rack Wood Pellet Basket Ash Tray
(lophura diardi) The Siamese Fireback is distributed to the lowland and evergreen forests of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia. This species is also designated as the national bird of Thailand.
Fireplace Insert Fireback Fireplace Grate Heater Furnace Heat Exchanger Heatilator Cord Firewood Rack Wood Pellet Basket Ash Tray
(lophura diardi) The Siamese Fireback is distributed to the lowland and evergreen forests of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia. This species is also designated as the national bird of Thailand.
Elihu Vedder’s 1881-82 cast iron fireback with Japanese dragon
Installation view “Aesthetic Splendors: Highlights from the Gift of Barrie and Deedee Wigmore”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, New York
December 2, 2019 – April 18, 2021
Fireplace Insert Fireback Fireplace Grate Heater Furnace Heat Exchanger Heatilator Cord Firewood Rack Wood Pellet Basket Ash Tray
Another fireback from the Walnford mansion, this one from Mary Ann Furnace in York County, PA. At first I thought this came from the NJ Mary Ann Furnace, in Burlington County, but George Ross's name shows that this fireback comes from Pennsylvania.
Vanderbilt Mantelpiece
•Maker: Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, Dublin 1848–1907 Cornish, New Hampshire)
•Date: ca. 1881–83
•Geography: Made in New York, New York, United States
•Culture: American
•Medium: Marble, mosaic, oak, and cast iron
•Dimensions: 184⅜ × 154⅞ × 37¼ in. (468.3 × 393.4 × 94.6 cm)
•Classification: Architecture
•Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt II, 1925
•Accession Number: 25.234
This mantelpiece originally dominated the entrance hall of the residence of Cornelius Vanderbilt II on Fifth Avenue at 57th Street (demolished 1925-27). Working for the architect George B. Post, the artist John La Farge (1835-1910) created a lavish decorative program, to which Saint-Gaudens contributed many of the sculptural elements. Two classical caryatids, Amor (Love) and Pax (Peace), support the expansive entablature with bowed heads and upraised arms. The overmantel mosaic depicts a classically dressed woman holding a garland. The Latin phrase of hospitality flanking her head may be translated as “the house at its threshold gives evidence of the master’s good will. Welcome to the guest who arrives; farewell and helpfulness to him who departs.”
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription: [in mosaic, left cartouche] DEO / NON • / FORTUNE; [in mosaic, top center] DOMVS • IN • LIMINE • DOMINI / VOLVNTATEM • BONAM • / MONSTRAT • HOSPTI / INVENTI • SALVTATIO / VELEDICTO • ADIVM / ENTVMOVE • EXEVNTO; [above caryatids, left] AMOR; [right] PAX; [on fireback, monograms, each repeated three times n shiled] CV / AGV; [in center of oak entablature] v
Provenance
Cornelius Vanderbilt II, New York, 1882–until d. 1899; his widow Mrs. Cornelius (Alice Gwynne) Vanderbilt II, until 1925
Timeline of Art History (2000-Present)
Essays
•Augustus Saint–Gaudens (1848–1907)
Timelines
•The United States and Canada, 1800–1900 A.D.
MetPublications
•American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1865
•The American Wing: A Guide
•Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
•[adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 66, no 4 (Spring, 2009)]
•Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master Sculptor
•A Walk Through The American Wing
28818 Household artifacts – American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, 200 Water Street, Yorktown, York, Virginia. April 26, 2025. Decimal degrees: 37.239720, -76.518472 GPS: N 37 14.383, W 76 31.108
Top row:
“New Industries and Markets”
“With the signing of the Treaty of Paris, the American people could expect to reap the benefits of being an independent nation state whenever their commercial creatures and products were offered in international markets. They were fa---ated from their farmer dependence on Britain’s nontactile system. No longer have they to submit to the taxes and regulations that had ---USA domestic Industries and overseaers trading. Many American producers and businessmen s---ed the chance to expand traditional industries and grow their own markets at home and aboard.
The USA economy proved resilient despise coping with debt and other negative industrial and marketing trends in the wake of the war. On the brighter side victory offered a finer prospect for direct foreign trade with Holland and China, so American delegates and agents abroad started to negotiate trade deals in the Far East and with other European nations.”
“delft ‘Rappe’ Tobacco Jar
Netherlands, 1765-1785”
“Tobacco continued to represent a major American commodity after the Declaration of Independence. It was now exported by American growers and merchants directly to European markets and British customers without middlemen taking part of the profits. Consignments of American tobacco which came to the Netherlands were sold in Dutch stores in Delfware jars like this one The blue decoration on the sides of this jar advertises the cipher of the Dutch East India Company, ‘VOC’, which labels a box behind the large coopered barrel. On the plinth is depicted a jar marked with the brand name ‘Rappe.’ The traditional Virginia tobacco figure is represented in the foreground, with a long pipe in his mouth and sporting a feathered headdress.”
“Stoneware Jar
Captain James Morgan, New Jersey, 1775-1800”
“In the Mid-Atlantic region there began and vessels which matched the needs of local farming communities for these decorative wares. The vertical handles and blue ‘watch-spring’ decorative painting in cobalt blue are touches of refinement that speak to the measure of prosperity in the last quarter of the 18th century.”
“Mahoghany Side Chair
East Windsor, Connecticut, 1780-1790”
“This ribbon back side chair is made of mahogany with maple and eastern white pine. The form of the chair back and the details of the joinery show a knowledge and training in Philadelphian chair-making traditions and a taste for Chippendale design. The shaped and pierced crest rail with a group of chairs made by Eliphalet Chapin (1741-1807) who trained in Philadelphia but who produced this pattern for local customers in Connecticut upon his return to Windsor.”
“Coin Silver Teapot
Philadelphia, Dated 1786”
“After the Revolution, American craftsmen began producing a whole range of luxury goods for a growing consumer market. American silversmiths often used so-called ‘coin’ silver rather than sterling silver for their flatware and hollow wares. Coin silver did not have as high a silver content as sterling, but it was both easier to obrain and cheaper than sterling silver. The neo-classical form is embellished with an engraved monogram of the owner, ‘TMW.’ This stans for Thomas and Mary Wistar who married in Philadelphia, in 1786.”
“Chippendale Tall Case Clock
Nathan Adams, Massachusetts, Circa 1790”
“Made for the Joseph Putman family of Danvers, Massachusetts, this tall clock has a butternut and pine case of elegant proportions. The increasing wealth of the middle classes in the United States after the Revolutionary War was attested by the number of expensive timekeeping instruments which are included in New England household inventories of this period. Marry immigrant Swiss, German and British clockmakers advertised their trade in local newspapers, and local American cabinet makers applied their skills in building cases to house the works. Like the Putnam tall-case clock, these ‘grandfather’ clocks were passed down the generations of family members as heirloom pieces.”
Lower row:
“Plate with Emblem of the Society of the Cincinnati
---, Circa 1763”
“This place belonged to a pon piece dinner service ordered from China by members of the Society of the Cincinnati, a foraminal order of American and French officers founded in 1783 to preserve the patriotic ideals and the fellowship of French and Americans serving in the Continental Army and Navy during the Revolutionary War Colonel ‘Light Horse Harry’ Lee planed the order for himself and George Washington. Major Sammuel Shaw oversaw the production as the perc--- works in China sailing to Cantown aboard the U.S. vessel the Empress of China. After its completion in 1785 the Chinese g---service was imported to America aboard the U.S. brig. Pallies.
Each part of the service bore the affirmative American bald eagle on the insignia of the Society of that Cincinnati. Painted in bright enamels it adorns the center of the plate, and was excused by a Chinese ---. This post -Revolutionary emblem is appended from a blue ribbon held a left by the winged figure of frame blowing a trumpet. Charismatic borders of blue Chinese underglass oran---- the design.”
“Silver Independence Recognition Medal
Netherlands 1782”
“The Dutch province of Friesland produced this silver medal in recognition of America’s Independence and to commemorate the peace accord and commercial arrangements which the provincial assembly approved in their meeting of February and April 1782 held at Leeuwarden. The designer, BCV Calker, used emblems on the medal of signify the amity between West Frisia and the United States Thurs American was personified as a princess in Indian costume trampling the scepter and the chain of dependence under her feet. Symbolic of Frisia was the warrior. He is shown ignoring Britannia with her olive branch and her attributes of a leopard and an adder.”
“George III Folk Art Figure’s
English, Circa 1800”
“Produced for popular consumption in Britain the artisan represented the aging monarch in the ‘Windsor’ uniform which the king designed for use of the Royal family in 1779. Pinned to his coast is the Garter star, emblem of the Knights of the Order of the Garter, a society formed of the king’s closest and nearest distinguished familiars.
While the loss of the American colonies was a grievous blow to king and country, the long reign saw the success of British forces operating in the sub-continent of India and in the Western hemisphere. British fleet monitored trade routes and safeguarded British commerce protecting far flung markets for British goods overseas. Not least was the growing distaste in Britain for the invasion from across the channel united the British people behind their king whose leadership and armed forces had ensured peace and prosperity.”
“Wrought Iron Gooseneck Andirons
American, 18th Century”
“The iron industry in America had been expanded during the war years. After Independence was won local ironworks in all the states expanded their range of products to supply local markets with domestic equipment such as hearth tools, stoves, firebacks and cooking utensils.”
“Chinese Export Porcelain Punch Bowl
Chinese, Circa 1775”
“When peace was signed at the Treaty of Paris in 1782 the United States began trading directly with China, rather than through the British trading network. This Chinese bowl was fashioned to be marketed abroad in Europe and America because it has the European shape of a punch bowl. The exterior is decorated in the colorful palette of Chinese enamel artists, but the function served a Western custom of partaking of the drink called punch, a refreshing fruit cocktail that was often fortified with spices and alcohol.”
Bombshell is an intense, angry, chalie who thinks hes the boss. Hes Bluewing's bully and pushover. His mother is Emberclaw and his friends are Fireback and Vinny.
The Commercial Hotel in Millthorpe is the village's oldest pub, originally built in 1877 by George Montgomery and known as Montgomery’s Spring Grove Hotel. The Victorian-style building is recognised for its classic 19th-century facade and historical significance as one of the first structures at the town's central crossroads. The architectural design features a prominent enclosed verandah and rustic details like an old manhole cover repurposed as a fireback, all of which were meticulously preserved during a 2021 restoration that converted the upper floor into luxury boutique accommodation.