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3 unusual facts about finery forge


Château de Flaugergues

Every floor is served by this staircase with its characteristic hanging key vaults and forged iron banisters.

Coventryville Historic District

Coventryville's origins lie in the iron forge founded in 1717 by Englishman Samuel Nutt, an early American industrialist and member of Pennsylvania's Assembly in 1723–26.

Finery forge

In Swedish Uppland north of Stockholm and certain adjacent provinces, another kind known as the Walloon forge was used, mainly for the production of a particularly pure kind of iron known as oregrounds iron, which was exported to England to make blister steel.


Chafery

A finery forge for the Walloon process would typically have one chafery to work two fineries (but sometimes one or three fineries).

Osmond process

This was where the first Machen Forge was, and he was evidently making osmond iron there.


see also

Falling Creek

This was a finery forge used to convert high carbon pig iron to low carbon iron which was built and operated by Archibald Cary of Ampthill Plantation.