andiron
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On display in Manhattan's Robinson Galleries last week went a Wheelock retrospective show that started with the dachshund andiron, ended in 1940 with a crisp, stylized figure of Washington at Valley Forge.
From Time Magazine Archive
She falls, strikes her head against a fraternity andiron.
From Time Magazine Archive
An early 17th-century andiron in the Jamestown collection.
From New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America by Cotter, John L.
A mug of cider stood near one andiron; leaning against the other was a flat stone,—the Squire's "Simon."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various
These show an early advance from the simple andiron, and point to the later developments of the fire-grate with the fast bars which were to come.
From Chats on Household Curios by Burgess, Fred. W. (Frederick William)
