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This is a complete guide to collecting copper and brass, beginning
with the composition and properties and how it is treated for
manufacture. It includes descriptions of brass, bronze, ormulu,
pinchbeck, Muntz's metal, gunmetal and bell metal, and how these
are made into useful articles or ornaments. Copper and brass have
been used during many centuries all over the world, and this book
includes products in the metals from Europe, India and the Orient
and Africa. There are notes on repairs and preservation and hints
on collecting and display. The book describes a list ranging
alphabetically from ale and spirit measures to wax jacks and
weights and measures it also discusses such things as aquamaniles,
buttons, ormulu mounts and mortars, armory and much else. Contents
Include COPPER AND ITS ALLOYS: Mining and Manufacture Alloys,
Composition and Uses Countries in Which Copper Alloys Have Been
Used A DICTIONARY OF ARTICLES MADE FROM COPPER AND ITS ALLOYS:
Fakes Cleaning
Yearning for an escape from a claustrophobic childhood, Geoffrey
Weill became infatuated with travel. At twenty-three, the budding
British connoisseur made his way across the Atlantic on an ocean
liner. The year was 1973, and he was bound for New York to pursue a
promising role as consultant-in-training at the headquarters of the
world's oldest travel agency, Thomas Cook. The idyllic trip was
reminiscent of those from the early twentieth century but made
distinctly modern by a nightly reminder-at the onboard dance club,
one was sure to run into a sequin-clad David Bowie. All Abroad is
the memoir of a man hungry for the logistics of travel: getting
there, staying there, and feeling at home on any continent. Woven
into his entertaining anecdotes is an informative account of a lost
era in travel. As a witness to compelling and monumental changes in
the industry, Weill offers a unique view into how our vacations
have been shaped deeply by human trends, tragedies, and
technologies. While some long for the grandeur of tourism from
decades ago, Weill insists that travel-the conveyances and hotels
that await journey's end-remains as glamorous as ever.
This is a new release of the original 1962 edition.
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Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
This is a complete guide to collecting copper and brass, beginning
with the composition and properties and how it is treated for
manufacture. It includes descriptions of brass, bronze, ormulu,
pinchbeck, Muntz's metal, gunmetal and bell metal, and how these
are made into useful articles or ornaments. Copper and brass have
been used during many centuries all over the world, and this book
includes products in the metals from Europe, India and the Orient
and Africa. There are notes on repairs and preservation and hints
on collecting and display. The book describes a list ranging
alphabetically from ale and spirit measures to wax jacks and
weights and measures it also discusses such things as aquamaniles,
buttons, ormulu mounts and mortars, armory and much else. Contents
Include COPPER AND ITS ALLOYS: Mining and Manufacture Alloys,
Composition and Uses Countries in Which Copper Alloys Have Been
Used A DICTIONARY OF ARTICLES MADE FROM COPPER AND ITS ALLOYS:
Fakes Cleaning
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