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Description: | .1 - .17 Seventeen black and white photographic postcards of different horse brass designs; .18 Reprinted sepia photograph of Chaplin brass foundry workers, showing a man wearing an apron and leaning on a machine, with a young man/boy behind him; .19 Reprinted sepia photograph of Chaplin brass foundry workers, showing a group of men and women sitting outside a building; .20 And original pencil sketch for the coronation horse brass, showing an "E.R" design with the words "June 2 Coronation 1953" around the edge; .21 - .27 Seven black and white postcards showing the different horse brass designs of Chaplin's: .21 (1-20), .22 (21-40), .23 (61-80), .24 (81-100), .25 (101-120), .26 (121-250), .27 (4010-4025). .28 Booklet entitled "All About Horse Brasses" by H.S. Richards. It is cream in colour with 54pp with photographs. A collector's guide.
Photographs and postcards relating to horse brasses produced by the W.H. Chaplin brass foundry in Walsall. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Walsall Museums | Rights holder: | Walsall Museums | Subjects: | Black Country Brass industry Brass founders | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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