Food & Food Preparation - Dog Irons, Andirons & Firebacks

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Joseph Webb Boston Advertisement

by Paul Revere September 28, 1765(American Antiquarian Society)


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Cast Iron Figural Dog Irons Similar to those on the Joseph Webb Trade Card

c. Late 18th Century (Possibly Later)(Skinner)


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Cast Iron Dog Iron from Jamestown

17th Century (Historic Jamestown)


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Cast Iron Soldier Andirons

18th Century (Private Collection)


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Wrought Iron “Dog Irons”

18th century (Private Collection)


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American Wrought Iron Coffin Shaped Andirons from New England



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American Wrought Iron Gooseneck Faceted Andirons with Penny Feet



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American Wrought Iron Gooseneck Andirons

Marked “WH 1775” (Skinner)


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American Wrought Iron Andirons



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American Wrought Iron Andirons with Horseshoe Bases



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American Wrought Iron Andirons with Horseshoe Bases



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American Wrought Iron Andiron with Spit Hooks



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American Wrought Iron Andiron with Spit Hooks



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Wrought Iron Andirons with Spit Hooks, Spit, and Skewers

Mid 18th - Early 19th Century (Cowan’s Auction House)


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English or American Wrought Iron Andirons with Spit Hooks

18th Century (Elliot & Grace Snyder)


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English or American Wrought Iron Andirons with Spit Hooks

18th Century (Elliot & Grace Snyder)


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English or American Wrought Iron Andirons

18th Century (Skinner)


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Wrought Iron Andirons

18th Century (Skinner)


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English Cast Iron Fireback Late 17th Century

(Christie’s Auction House)


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English Cast Iron Fireback

c. 1700 - 1750(Victoria & Albert)


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English Cast Iron Fireback

Early 18th Century (Northumberland Antiques)


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English Cast Iron Fireback with Coat of Arms

Puddle-Cast Iron18th Century


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English Cast Iron Fireback with Coat of Arms

“In Memory of Maj Genl IAMES WOLFE Killed At Quebec Sept 13 1759” (Skinner)


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An Open Hearth with a Fire

by Joseph Wright of Derby 1770 - 1772


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American Cast Iron Fireback that Belonged to Joseph Bartlett

Attributed to the Saugus Ironworks of Massachusetts 1660(Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Massachusetts)


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American Cast Iron Fireback from the Tubal Furnace of Spotsylvania County, Virginia Made by Enslaved Craftsmen of Alexander Spotswood, Former Royal Governer of Virginia 1725

(Museum of Southern Decorative Arts)


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American Cast Iron Fireback “Sold By Joseph Webb Boston”

by Joseph Webb c. 1734 - 1787 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)


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American Cast Iron Fireback “Sold By Joseph Webb Boston”

by Joseph Webb c. 1734 - 1787 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)


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American Cast Iron FirebackBy John Potts of Pennsylvania 1741

(Private Collection)


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American Cast Iron Fireback

By the Oxford Furnace of Oxford Township, Warren County, New Jersey 1746(Cordier Auctions)


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By the Oxford Furnace of Oxford Township, Warren County, New Jersey 1746(Cordier Auctions)


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By the Oxford Furnace of Oxford Township, Warren County, New Jersey 1745 - 1758(Cordier Auctions)


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By the Oxford Furnace of Oxford Township, Warren County, New Jersey 1745 - 1758(Metropolitan Museum of Art)


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The Oxford FurnaceOxford Township, Warren County, New Jersey

Built 1741


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American Cast Iron Fireback "In Mem y of Majr Genl JAMES.WOLFE at Quebec Sep 11 1759"

Massachusetts 1759(Winterthur)


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Reproduction of an American Cast Iron FirebackBy the COLE*BROOK*DALE Furnace of Boyertown, Pennsylvania c. 1760

(Private Collection)


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By the Colebrookdale Furnace, Pennsylvania 1763(Metropolitan Museum of Art)


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American Cast Iron Fireback Attributed to the Shop of John Pollard

By the Basto Furnace of New Jersey 1767 (Chipstone Foundation)


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Made in New York 1767 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)


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by Henry William Stiegel, Elizabeth Furnace, Pennsylvania 1769(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)


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By the Aetna Furnace, New Jersey c. 1770 - 1774(Metropolitan Museum of Art)


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American Cast Iron FirebackBy the AERA Furnace of York County, South Carolina

Made by Enslaved Craftsmen Promised Security from the British Army

“LIBERTY OR DEATH” 1778


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The Lykas Van Alen House of Kinderhook, New York


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A Regence European Cast Iron Hearth PlateEarly 18th Century

(Christie’s Auction House)


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French Cast Iron Fireback c. 1700

(Antique-fireback.com)


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French Cast Iron Fireback 1706



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French Cast Iron Fireback with IHS Monogram1747



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French Cast Iron Fireback with IHS Monogram “ADAM PRVDHON 1761”



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