10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEELBALL»
Discover the use of
heelball in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
heelball and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Heelball is made in this wise : I reveal a secret, once strictly guarded, because
vigorous martinets have resolved to put down Heelball even at the expense of
smartness, and have ruthlessly ordained the use of common blacking. Heelball is
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How to Hold a Crocodile
to tnafte 6ra$,s ruti&tng You will need: Architect's or draftsman's detail paper (
preferably) or decorator's lining paper. Stick of heelball (originally produced for
cobblers, it is a compound of beeswax, tallow and lampblack). Weights or
masking ...
The result was, of course, a reverse of the original, and what a state the floor must
have been in ! 2. Another way was to rub with blacklead as heelball is now used.
3. Messrs. Waller invented the use of washleather rubbers primed with ...
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Monumental Brasses As Art and History
The wax used by shoemakers for blackening the leather, called 'heelball', was
found to be more satisfactory. The use of a special brass-rubbing wax was
introduced by Messrs Ullathorne, of Long Acre, London, who perfected a heelball
...
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Writing to Communicate: A Rhetoric, Reader, and Handbook for ...
You will need a special wax-carved heelball, lining paper, masking tape, a plastic
eraser, a soft brush and a rag. The heelball and paper come in a variety of colors,
and one of the most stunning combinations is a silver heelball on black paper.
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Brass and other rubbings
The ideal consistency is found in heelball, cobbler's wax, obtainable through
most shoe-menders. Shops selling art and crafts materials also supply heelball,
but the best quality, made especially for brass rubbing is that produced by
Phillips ...
This promises much better, though time will be the only test of its lasting qualities.
1 In rubbing the larger brasses, where the indent used to be outlined with
heelball, it was a short step to the use of a dabber to indicate the indent and to
show ...
Cambridge Antiquarian Society (Cambridge, England), 1949
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Macklin's monumental brasses: including a bibliography and a ...
A clean dry method of copying brasses became popular towards the end of
Craven Ord's lifetime, using Ullathorne heelball. The method was like putting a
coin under a piece of paper and rubbing on top with a pencil. Using Ullathorne
wax the ...
Herbert Walter Macklin, John Page-Phillips, 1978
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Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society
This promises much better, though time will be the only test of its lasting qualities.
1 In rubbing the larger brasses, where the indent used to be outlined with
heelball, it was a short step to the use of a dabber to indicate the indent and to
show ...
The best method of rubbing brasses is by heelball and white paper. There is
another method with a bronze rubber on black paper ; but heelball and white
paper are cheaper, and can be bought anywhere. There are three kinds of black
...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HEELBALL»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
heelball is used in the context of the following news items.
There's the rub
They are made with a wax crayon, called heelball. You have to rub very hard and firm with the wax crayon so it takes a good bit of energy to ... «Troy Messenger, Jan 12»
The Weekend's Television: Agatha Christie's Marple, Sun, ITV1
“All I know,” she said sagely, “is that a genuine brass rubber would refer to heelball and not wax.” A little later, another lie was unearthed by her ... «Independent, Sep 09»
