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of the craft in this neighborhood who keep stead- 

 ily busy making household hardware and imple- 

 ments, mainly in the traditional local patterns. 

 The force of those traditions is, by the way, some- 

 thing to reckon with. When we were furnishing 

 the rebuilt wing of Tavern House it struck me 

 the conventional tulip design would make a nice 

 wall bracket for electric lights. In iron work the 

 tulip is seen in strap hinges, shaped thus: 



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My idea was that a tulip light bracket should be 

 shaped so: 



I drew a sketch and showed it to one of the local 

 iron masters. He did not point-blank refuse to 

 make the electroliers. But I could see he might. 

 And I still have not got them. Why? There never 



