NO MORE SINEWY HANDS.
The village smithy has changed with the times, says the Bradford correspondent of a London newspaper. No longer " large and sinewy, the smith s hands to-day fashion such comparatively delicate articles as iron candlesticks, with graceful ornamental stems, artistic door hinges and ornaments, and furniture fot the hearth —endirons and landiers, more popularly known as fire-dogs, chiselled with attractive and picturesque mouldings and ornaments. At the old village smithy at "West Marton, a peaceful little hamlet tucked away in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the smith's hands jrscently held two pieces of iron of intricate workmanship, which finally became beautiful examples ■' cf wrought-iron work*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20810, 28 February 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)
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108NO MORE SINEWY HANDS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20810, 28 February 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)
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