Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar81911newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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of a face was thickly covered with oil and set in a box filled with soft plaster of Paris until the plaster set. The mold thus formed was then oiled and filled with cement. In this way the cement faces were cast, and then they were secured to the sides of the urn with pure cement, neatlv wiped so as to conceal the joint completely. Success with the small model encouraged Mr. Spinner to make the large urn. All the ornamental features were cast separately, and cemented to the sides of the urn. The monkey faces were taken from a beer pitcher, the moon faces from a jelly mold,
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Preliminary work and molds for the large urn Completed concrete flower urn undertook to construct one himself out of concrete. First and the spheres were cast in a five-inch copper ball. The a small model was made, which is shown in the illustration ball was cut in two, and each half was completely filled, at the left-hand side. The sides of the mold were put to- after which the two hemispheres were closed one upon the gether with screws, so that they could be taken apart with- other, so as to make a solid ball; a method which obtains out danger of breaking the concrete. Then a plaster model success as marked as that in the case of the small model.

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