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AMERICAN 
HOMES AND GARDENS 
William and Mary period, 1690 
Old English Brass Hooks 
By William T. Phillips 
Charles II period, 1680 Charles I period, 1630 
mq)| LIE brass hooks illustrated upon this page gowns and other things on for the past two decades as is 
| are modern reproductions of old English to be found in the brass hooks patterned after examples 
examples of 
earlier peri- 
ods, which 
may now be 
had in America, the exam- 
ples here shown having 
been imported recently. We 
are coming to interest our- 
selves more and more in 
that date from the Seven- 
teenth Century. One of 
these hooks is Dutch, but 
being brought to England 
at an early time was, we 
believe, copied by early 
English craftsmen, but 
others of the William and 
Mary, King Charles, and of 
the minutia of home-decora- 
tion, in the little things that 
play a modest part in home 
furnishings, but which, after all, are 
essential factors in many respects. 
Hooks, for instance, abound in every 
house, and how ugly many of them 
are—nearly all of them in fact. It 
is a pleasure therefore to come across 
so excellent a substitute for the hooks 
we have been hanging our hats, coats, 
the Georgian era were the 
work of early English de- 
signers and metal workers. 
One is pleased to note the revival of 
beautiful “house hardware’”’ in evidence 
in this instance as well as in other contem- 
porary productions. It is to be hoped that 
modern craftsmen will go one step fur- 
ther and give us more examples than we 
find at the present time of artistic metal- 
work designed for the house interior. 
& 
Dutch, circa 1700 Long hook, William and Mary period ) Seventeenth century = ~~ 
