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Figure 32
Welded edges on Brick
Axe B. (Courtesy of
Jay Close)
that were to be held in use is not unusual in period ironwork. The repairs or
renewals to the blades are done in a competent and functional manner with-
out apparent concern for the quality of the hammered texture left behind.
This is a good example of what would have been called 'country work' in the
eighteenth century American colonial context - the level of work that local
clients would accept that likely provided the bulk of the income of a practising
provincial smith.
