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INTERNATIONAL 
SILVERPLATE 
^ Look for these trade-marks on 
silverplated hollowware 
T he search for beauty in silverplated hollow- 
ware would no doubt lead you to select from 
the creations of the International Silver Co._ 
largest of the world’s silverplate makers. But 
more important even than beauty is the integrity 
of workmanship guaranteed by the four Inter¬ 
national S. Co. trade-marks shown above. Each 
stands for a name old and respected among mak¬ 
ers of silverware. Each mark offers you the cer¬ 
tainty of quality and durability. 
The name of the producing factory appears in 
the half circle and the words “International S. 
Co.’’ at the base. On a tea set, compote, bread 
tray, vase, candlestick or other article let these 
marks indicate that beauty is deeper than the 
surface—that the silverplated hollowware thus 
stamped will give you the service you desire. 
INTERNATIONAL SILVER COMPANY 
Meriden, Conn. 
International Silverplate is also made to match 
the patterns of the famous 1847 Rogers Bros, 
knives, forks and spoons, and the trade-mark is 
1847 ROGERS BROS. 
^ inteitnation:^ silver CO. 
Where details are shown, special drawings are 
made so that their refinements can be accurately 
re produced. This detailed drawing of a transom 
' is shown by courtesy of Curtis Details ' 
“A QUARTER-INCH equals ONE FOOT” 
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house can be built. Scale will make the 
difference between a set of ideal plans for 
a house which are absurd and impractical 
and a set of plans w'hich can be used as a 
reasonable point of departure for a set of 
w^orking plans. 
The architect’s quarter-inch scale plans 
carry all the dimension figures as well, 
notes, references to specifications and 
detail drawings and the correct indication 
for fireplaces, flues, stairways, heating, 
plumbing and electric outlets, with much 
other essential detail impossible for the 
amateur planner to incorporate in his 
rough layouts. 
In the making of scale drawings, archi¬ 
tects use a special scale rule which is 
marked for laying out drawings at many 
other scales than the quarter-inch one 
used for house plans. 
For ordinary purposes, a plain foot 
rule, divided to sixteenths of an inch will 
answer perfectly. On the basis that one 
quarter of an inch represents a foot, an 
eighth of an inch will represent half a 
foot and one sixteenth of an inch will 
represent three inches. For smaller 
dimensions on a set of preliminary scale 
drawings, it is safe enough to guess, 
because a thirty-second of an inch on the 
foot rule will represent an inch and a half 
in the finished house. On the architect’s 
scale’ rule, a quarter of an inch is divided 
into twelve miniature inches, so that his 
quarter inch is, in fact, a miniature foot 
rule, with which he lays out the house, at 
the same miniature scale. 
In “reading” quarter-inch scale plans 
with an ordinary foot rule, the procedure 
is as simple as possible. If a room meas¬ 
ures 2 ) 4 "wide, that is ten quarter inches, 
and as a quarter inch represents a foot, 
the room is 10 ' wide. Without the 
definiteness of using a uniform scale 
throughout a set of plans, nothing in the 
planning of the house could be definite, 
and it w'ould be impossible for a builder 
to construct the house. 
The scale plans and elevations, or 
exteriors, of the house are an e.xactly 
proportional delineation of it in miniature. 
It is interesting to follow the use of 
different scales through the successive 
stages of planning a house. Rough 
preliminary studies are often made at a 
scale in which one eighth of an inch repre- 
sents a foot. Owing to the smallness of 
this scale it is not possible to work out 
any of the more detailed or complicated 
portions of the plans or exteriors, but a , 
correctly proportional general scheme for ' 
the whole house can be evolved. 
When these have been revised and 
approved, the architect makes the draw¬ 
ings discussed before—the drawings in 
which a quarter of an inch represents a 
foot on the actual building. While these 
scale drawings are sufficiently large to 
show all the essentials of planning, ar¬ 
rangement and rudimentary construction, 
they are not large enough to show certain 
details which the architect would like to 
study more minutely and present to the 
builders in a form allowing of no mis¬ 
understandings or mistakes. 
Paneled rooms and other special parts 
of the house he will draw at a scale in 
which three quarters of an inch represents 
a foot. These drawings, then, are three , 
times the size of the general working 
drawings, and can be made in consider¬ 
able detail. Sometimes a scale of one inch 
representing one foot is used. ’ 
For details of fireplaces and unusually 
complicated stairw'ays a still larger scale 
is often used, in which an inch and a half . 
is used to represent a foot. Scale drawings , 
are very seldom made larger than this, I 
and the next scale used is actual size, j 
which is not a scale at all. These drawings i 
are usually marked “F. S. D.”, meaning I 
“full size detail”, and are made to show ■ 
the profile of moldings and the construc¬ 
tion of elaborate cabinet work. 
On the quarter-inch scale drawings ' 
these notes often appear “See scale 
detail”, or “See F. S. D.”, thus informing 
the builders that carefully detailed draw- | 
ings of these portions have been, or are ■ 
being made. No architect makes scale or ■ 
full size details until the final approval ! 
of the quarter-inch scale drawings of the 
whole house, because drawings are expen- ' 
sive to make, and changes of mind or ■ 
changes of arrangement in the general 
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