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George Myers <[log in to unmask]>
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HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 4 May 2006 09:13:54 -0400
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I too would be interested. I wanted to add the Janes and Kirtland
company used to be right at the new National Monument in lower
Manhattan, NY, the African Burial Ground Historic site (also part of a
New York City Commons Historic District) before the firm was "removed"
to the Bronx according to someone at The Bronx County Historical
Society.

There was another foundry casting firm too in the Bronx, the Mott
company which has sculpture, fountains, and stoves all over the world,
once with showrooms in the South Street Seaport Historic District. In
the Ian Fleming film, the deer sculpture in Tokyo I think is from the
Mott foundry, "In fact, it was S.P.E.C.T.R.E. that showed the movie
going public the very first two-timing timepiece. Übermensch Red Grant
was seen in the pre-credits sequence of FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, dealing
an untimely death to a Bond look-a-like by means of a wristwatch that
featured a garrote wire coiled inside."
(http://www.hmss.com/qbranch/0202.htm)

George Myers

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