AUSTIN & SEELEY,NEW ROAD, LONDON,(Corner of Cleveland Street.)
AUSTIN & SEELEY,NEW ROAD, LONDON,(Corner of Cleveland Street.)
AUSTIN & SEELEY,NEW ROAD, LONDON,(Corner of Cleveland Street.)
AUSTIN and SEELEY respectfully invite the attention of Builders, Masons, and others to their extensive Collection of Ornaments, manufactured in Artificial Stone, of their own peculiar Composition, without either the use of Roman Cement or the application of Heat. They are also ready to execute New Models on the lowest remunerating terms. Their present Stock consists of—
Capitals and Fluted Columns; Trusses, Brackets, and Modillions; the Royal Arms and Prince of Wales’s Feathers; Centre Ornaments for Entablatures and Bas-Relievos; Balustrading and Coping, for which, as their work is waterproof, it is well suited; Rustic and Rough Stone Facing, and Pier Ornaments, such as Pine-Apples, &c.; Gothic Work in great variety, including Fonts, Communion Tables, and Screens; Tazzas and Vases, to the extent of nearly One Hundred Models; Flower-Boxes, and Garden-Border Edging; Fountains, from £6 and upwards; Monumental Urns; Figures—Statues from the antique, as well as some chaste subjects of modern design, Animals, Birds, &c.; Chimneys and Chimney-Pots, from 1 foot 10 inches to 10 feet high. (As these are so bulky, a portion of Roman Cement is introduced for economy’s sake.)
N.B. A complete Specimen-Sheet of their Chimneys may be had by application to A. and S.
MOST IMPORTANT INVENTION.
THE PATENT STUCCO PAINT CEMENT.—This truly valuable preparation, the satisfactory result of a long series of experiments, after having been subjected to the most rigid tests, is now offered with confidence to the public, as possessing the following extraordinary qualities, which must at once insure for it a preference over any Cement yet manufactured.
Architects, Engineers, Contractors, Builders, Masons, Plasterers, and the Trade are referred to the undermentioned properties of this valuable discovery, which is secured by Patent to its Inventors and Proprietors.
1. Its strong adhesive properties, fixing most tenaciously to the smoothest surfaces, even to glass.
2. Its being highly repellent of water, and thoroughly impervious to wet or damp.
3. The chemical peculiarity of its composition does not admit of the possibility of its vegetating, and thereby becoming discoloured.
4. The safe and gradual rapidity with which it dries; hardening the more by the greater exposure to the atmosphere.
5. Its perfect freedom from any of the caustic qualities of Lime Stuccoes; and consequently,
6. It may be painted upon as soon as dry, a property possessed by no other Cement whatever.
7. It is not in the slightest degree affected by frost.
8. It may be kept in the cask as delivered from the Manufactory for any length of time without deterioration, not requiring to be used (as other Cements are) immediately after being manufactured. To Merchants, therefore, and Exporters, even to the remotest parts of the globe, this Cement will form a most important item of commerce.
9. To Engineers and Conductors of Public Works, the use of this Cement is strongly recommended in lieu of mortar, particularly in the construction of Railway Arches and Tunnelling; its peculiarly tenacious property forming one hardened mass with the brick or masonry, or with whatever material it may be used; and it will be found particularly valuable in laying and pointing roofs, whether of slate or tile, in the most exposed situations, rendering the whole roof fixed and immoveable.
This Cement is sold in a fluid state, fit for its mixture with the sand, at 14s. per cwt.: the proportions being one fourth-part of the fluid to three-fourths of sand, thereby reducing the price of this Cement considerably below that of any other yet offered to the public.
One coat of the Cement, so prepared, is sufficient to cover at once a Brick Front, without any preparatory coat of lime, seven pounds of the fluid Cement being consumed in covering the square yard; but when laid on Lime Plaster, four pounds’ weight to the square yard will be found enough.
Messrs. Johns and Co., of Plymouth (the Patentees), are now prepared to execute orders to any extent; and beg to intimate that they have appointed Messrs. Mann and Co., of No. 5, Maiden-lane, Queen-street, London, as their Sole Agents, at whose Warehouse any quantity may be procured, specimens may be seen, and every information obtained, and to whom all communications are to be addressed.
London, 5, Maiden-lane, Queen-street, Cheapside, May, 1842.
JAMES GRANT, GAS FITTER, No. 1, Vine-street, Tufton-Street, Westminster, respectfully offers his services to his friends and the public, to lay gas apparatus, of iron or metal, with every requisite for lighting houses or apartments, &c., upon sound principles, which insure safety and prevent smell or other inconvenience, upon economical terms. Drawings and estimates furnished.
TO MASONS, SCULPTORS, BUILDERS, &c.—WYATT, PARKER, and Co. beg to inform their friends and the public, that they have just received from Italy some fine Blocks of Statuary, Veined, Dove, Sienna, and other Marbles. Also a large quantity of Italian sawn slabs or tables. To be seen at Albion Wharf, Holland-street, foot of Blackfriars-bridge, Surrey.
TO ARTISTS, &c.—Wanted, a Gentleman with a taste for Architectural Drawing, and of competent skill as a Draughtsman and Colourist, who, in return for the facilities given him to acquire a knowledge of Architecture, &c., would give his services, or at a moderate remuneration in instruction. Address H., “Builder” Office.
TO ARCHITECTS, BUILDERS, &c.—J. EVANS, Stove Grate Manufacturer, 33, King William-street, London-bridge, respectfully submits the following reduced prices for wholesale orders:—Best elliptic stoves, 4½d. per inch; register stoves, 10d. per inch; Evans’s improved patent self-acting kitchen ranges, with ovens and back boilers, three feet, 4l.14s. 6d.; three feet four inches, 5l.15s. 6d.; three feet eight inches, 6l.6s.; four feet, 6l.16s. 6d. Larger sizes, with steam apparatus complete, from 20l.to 100l.and upwards. The largest stock of ornamental drawing-room stoves, fenders, &c., in the kingdom.
TO ARCHITECTS, BUILDERS, AND OTHERS.
The advantages of JAMES FINDON’S Patent improvement to Water-Closets are the great facility of acting, cleanliness, a durability, a readiness of being connected to a pipe from a head of water, which pipe may be used for any other purpose; the whole of the apparatus being under the seat. Testimonials to be seen at the manufactory, 190½, High Holborn.
N.B. Iron Hopper Closet Basin glazed and trap complete, 1l.5s.; Long Iron Hopper Closet Basin glazed and trap complete, 1l.7s.
TO ARCHITECTS, BUILDERS, DECORATORS, &c.—A Gentleman who has had considerable experience as a draughtsman and designer in the Elizabethan style, as applicable to building, decoration, and furniture, would be glad to meet with an engagement where he would also make himself generally useful. Apply by letter, prepaid, to A.B., “Builder” Office.