ARTISTS, PRINTSELLERS, and Others are respectfully informed that C. F. Brelefeld has formed a large Collection of new and elegant Designs for Picture Frames in the Improved Papier Maché. The superiority of these Frames consists in their having all the effect of old carved work; many patterns represent exactly the finest carvings of the 17th century. The small parts are far less liable to injury than putty work. Papier Maché being a remarkably tough and hard substance, it never shrinks, and takes gilding very freely; the frames do not weigh one quarter the weight of others, and the price is below that usually charged.
Many specimens are now on view at C. F. Brelefeld’s Papier Maché Works, No. 15, Wellington-street North, Strand, where also Pattern Books may be had, price 14s., consisting of a variety of Patterns of Picture and Glass Frames and Window Cornices, already executed, and on sale.
“PICTURE FRAMES.—We direct the especial attention of all persons interested in this subject to the frames for pictures manufactured by Mr. Brelefeld; they are of Papier Maché, and the advantages they possess over the ordinary composition frames are so strong and so numerous, that they must inevitably be brought into general use. They look exceedingly attractive, and are in reality as much so as if they had passed through the hands of the carver, and been produced at about ten times the expense. The gilding tells with very brilliant effect; and no matter how elaborate the pattern may be, they have a clearness and sharpness that we have seldom or never seen obtained in composition.”—Art-Union.
TO CIVIL ENGINEERS, ARCHITECTS, BUILDERS, AND THE PUBLIC.
THOMAS PEAKE’S TERRO-METALLIC MANUFACTORIES, Tunstall, near Newcastle, Staffordshire. Depôt, Albion Wharf, Holland-street, London, per Messrs. Wyatt, Parker, and Co.
The manufacturer and his late father have conducted the present business since 1808, now thirty-four years. He begs to remark that, during that period, the articles have supplanted other materials to a considerable extent provincially; and experience leads him to believe that they will be more generally adopted in the metropolis, as they become known.
T. P. had the honour to supply roof tiles for lodges, villas, &c. at Chatsworth, and he believes they are not excelled in efficiency or appearance by any tiled roofs in the world.
Pipes instead of Parget for chimneys, either circular for masonry, or 14 by 9 in., and other forms and sizes, not to injure the bond of brickwork; Grecian, Italian, pan, plain, and ornamental tiles, instead of slates, for roofs, with tiles for the hips, valleys, and ridges, a desirable substitute for lead, those for ridges with pyramidal points, lilies, &c.; paving tiles, 6, 7½, and 9 in. square, blue and red, to lay in checquer; skirting tiles; garden edging tiles, very neat; channel tiles; sough grate tiles; drain shell tiles; conduit pipes, of various diameters, from 3 to 16 in., with dead or socket joints, also conical, to fit one within another—the 12 and 16 in. are well adapted fur small sewers. Great numbers of the different sorts and sizes of these pipes have been used upon the railways, especially the London and Birmingham, the Great Western, and Birmingham and Gloucester lines. At home and abroad they are preferred to lead, iron, &c., to convey water for domestic use. The paving of this material, whether square or oblong, is clean, efficient, and durable; it is well adapted for ground floors in general, for outyards, footpaths in towns, &c.