This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...received the same amount of attention from the ironworker as did knockers, except in the case of those made for the vargueno, a characteristic piece of Spanish furniture which will be mentioned later. Lock-making for doors never became the fine art it was in France, where the French smith, assimilating the methods and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...received the same amount of attention from the ironworker as did knockers, except in the case of those made for the vargueno, a characteristic piece of Spanish furniture which will be mentioned later. Lock-making for doors never became the fine art it was in France, where the French smith, assimilating the methods and skill of the locksmith, armorer, and jeweler, produced locks so exquisitely wrought that they have since found a place in all considerable collections of art works. There are nevertheless some excellent Spanish locks in the Hispanic collection; but the majority, as indicated by their hinged hasps, were originally affixed to trunks and chests. In the illustrations of Romanesque and early Gothic rejas can be seen the simple locks of those periods; the device being the slide bolt with attached hasp which, when released, served as a handle as well. Such a lock, or rather bolt, was necessarily large and crude, for anything of small FIG. 63. DOOR KNOCKER WITH 'FTC. 64. DOOR HANDLE WITH MUDEJAR TRACERY. MUDEJAR TRACERY. LATE XVI Century. Late XVI Century. Hispanic Society of America. Hispanic Society of America. Dia. of backplate 10 in. No. 96. Dia. of backplate 9 in. No. 95. scale and greater nicety would have failed to adjust itself to the structural discrepancies in these big, heavy gates; but even Renaissance rejeros appreciated its suitability for the reja and continued using it, considerably enriched, throughout the sixteenth century (Figure 103). Common to all Europe was the lock which, dispensing with the bolt, consisted of hasp, lockplate and box, the whole being fastened in position by means of fixing staples. Of these last, an early specimen, rather crude, holds the knocker of Figure 45 in place. The fixing staple having ...
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