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Butler tray hinge Folds to 90 degrees and also snaps flat. They are for tables that have a tray top for serving. Card table hinge Mortised into edge of antique or reproduction card tables and allow the top to fold onto itself. Carpentier joint A hinge consisting of several thin metal strips of curved cross section. Drop-leaf table hinge
A silent butler, sometimes called an ash butler, is a small container, often of base metal, sometimes silver or silverplate, with a handle and hinged cover, used for collecting ashes or crumbs. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They were more common during the 20th century, and enjoyed some popularity being made as a home construction project in the US.
Professional butler and author Steven M. Ferry states that the image of tray-wielding butlers who specialise in serving tables and decanting wine is now anachronistic, and that employers may well be more interested in a butler who is capable of managing a full array of household affairs‒from providing the traditional dinner service, to acting ...
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An early 19th century southern pine butler's desk from North Carolina.. In England, the butler's desk, a piece of furniture designed for those in service to fine houses to keep documents and records, was eminently practical and based on the ever-growing needs of an increasingly literate group of persons in service.
Lambert & Butler is a former English tobacco manufacturing company, established in 1834 in Clerkenwell, Central London, which operated as a private business until 1901, when it merged with other UK manufacturers to form the Imperial Tobacco Company.
The Butler Baronetcy, of Edgbaston in the County of Warwick, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 29 January 1926 for the brewer William Butler, Chairman of Mitchells & Butlers Ltd. His only son William Owen Butler (1898–1935) predeceased him, without male issue. Consequently, the baronetcy became extinct on Butler's death ...
Baron Butler of Moore Park, Co. Hertford, [4] was created in the Peerage of England in 1666, for Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory (the eldest son of the 1st Duke of Ormonde). Four years previously, he had been called up to the Irish House of Lords by a writ of acceleration as the Earl of Ossory .