Subject: Boot scrapers

From: Michael Spencer <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 96 14:50:35 EDT

Someone asked about bootscrapers that were  riveted instead of
mortised. I've deleted the message and forget if there was a specific
period in question -- early colonial or whatever. 

But there are some pictures of riveted bootscrapers on pre-20th
century Philadelphia doorsteps in Gerald Geerlings' _Wrought Iron in
Architecture_ (Scribner's, 1929; reprinted Bonanza, 1957). Some of
these are integral with the iron stoop railings and clearly part of
the original design.

- Mike
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From: Bob Bigelow <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 16:24:27 -0700

Mike,
  See if you can find Albert Sohn's "Early American Wrought Iron"
  ISBN 0-517-27793X  It has page after page of boot scrapers from
all periods in American History.  Yes, many were riveted!
  Bob