Colonial Brass certainly produces mass-manufactured items, but as Tony has pointed out, they are not shoddy items. It was Colonial Brass that made the Briggs Sundial at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards. For each of my daughters' baptisms I had Colonial Brass make a small window-sill dial with their names - very nicely done.
Fred Sawyer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Moss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sundial Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 11:14 AM Subject: Re: Beware messages from Colonial Brass > Ron Anthony contributed: > > >I have worked with and used products from Colonial Brass. I won't > >characterize them or their products as bogus. > > Several years ago while on a UK Trade Mission I seem to recall seeing > some of their products on the garden furniture floor of 'America's Mart' > which is a sort of mammoth 'mall' for trade purchasers only in Atlanta. > Certainly they were the objects of 'quantity production' - by 'shell > moulding' perhaps?? - but the detailing was fine and the metalwork of > good quality. Although it is unlikely they would be latitude specific > they were designed as far as possible as working sundials and not the > amazing 'nondials' we have seen recently from the Indian sub-continent. > > There again I may have got the name wrong! > > Tony Moss > > P.S. The usual disclaimer. > - > -
