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The joyner and cabinet-maker's darling, or pocket director. Containing, sixty different designs, entirely New and Useful. Forty of which are Gothic, Chinese, Mosaic, and Ornamental Frets, Proper for Friezes, Imposts, Architraves, Tabernacle Frames, Book-Cases, Tea Tables, Tea Stands, Trays, Stoves, and Fenders. And Twenty new and beautiful Designs for Gothic, Modern, and Ornamental Fan-Lights For Over-Doors, in the most elegant Taste. Calculated for the universal Use of Carpenters, Joyners, Cabinet-Makers, Masons, Plaisterers, Smiths, &c. &c. And intended to assist the Nobility and Gentry in their Choice. The whole designed and engraved by John Crunden, architect.
Crunden, John, approximately 1745-1835.Date: M.DCC.LXX. [1770]- Books
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Silk throwsters, &c. A catalogue of ten pair of double Dutch silk mills, with reels, spindles, and iron-work complete, in very good repair, Twelve Winding Engines, carrying 96 Swifts each, almost new, sundry Doubling Wheels, Runners, &c. a Fifteen Feet Horse Wheel and Mill Work, Counters, and Presses. A very large Quantity of Bobbins of various Sorts, Scales and Weights, Silk Baskets, Trays, Stretchers and Skeining Pins; a Cast Iron Drying Stove and Pipe, a Leaden Cistern, Two Eight-Day Dials, and various other Utensils, the property of Mr. Thomas Kilner, Silk Throwster, (retired from Business) which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Winstanley, on the premises, no. 33, Spital Square, on Tuesday, September 25, 1787, At Eleven O'Clock.
Winstanley, Richard.Date: 1787]- Books
Impression trays and materials for impressions / Claudius Ash, Sons & Co., Ltd.
Claudius Ash & Sons.Date: 1908
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Impression trays, articulators & accessories / The S.S. White Dental Mfg. Co.
S.S. White Dental Manufacturing Company.Date: 1912- Archives and manuscripts
Loose papers from Birmingham office trays: OCCS grids, graphs, background radiation material, 1997
Date: n.d., ?c. 1970s-1990sReference: PP/AMS/D.6/26Part of: Alice Stewart (1906-2002)