Coalville Times | 1904-05-13 | Page 3 | Keys in Former Days

KEV8 IN FORMER DAYS. Were Real Worka of Art In Their Ornamentation. In the sixteenth century Kumpean Iron workers product d keys enriched with ornaments In relief and treated as works nf art. Nothing could be moro graceful than the embossed figures, fig-ures, coats of arms and grotesque seated male figures snpK rtlng a du cal coronet. A third key la exceptionally excep-tionally ornate; the entlro available space Is enriched with araberques. terminating In cuplds. reclining rlvor gods, a standing flgure of Victory and similar devices. The stem of this key Is supported by figures of a man and a woman.