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2. Monumental brass - Wikipedia

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   Brass group of 1378 commemorating Sir John Foxley and his two wives in St Michael's Church, Bray, Berkshire. A monumental brass is a type of engraved sepulchral memorial once found through Western Europe, which in the 13th century began to partially take the place of three-dimensional monuments and effigies carved in stone or wood.

3. List of plates in Mormonism - Wikipedia

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   The Brass Plates were a set of plates retrieved by Nephi at the direction of his father, Lehi. They contained Jewish records similar to the Old Testament, up to the time of Jeremiah. [3] The large plates of Nephi which are the source of the text abridged by Mormon and engraved on the Golden Plates.

4. Latter Day Saint movement and engraved metal plates

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   The brass plates, originally in the custody of Laban, containing the writings of Old Testament prophets before the Babylonian exile, as well as the otherwise unknown prophets Zenos, Zenoch, Neum, and possibly others. The large plates of Nephi, the source of the text abridged by Mormon and engraved on the golden plates.

5. Golden plates - Wikipedia

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   Smith's first published description of the plates said that the plates "had the appearance of gold", [171] and Smith said that Moroni had referred to the plates as "gold." [ 176 ] Late in life, Martin Harris stated that the rings holding the plates together were made of silver, [ 165 ] and he said the plates themselves, based on their heft of ...

6. Art in bronze and brass - Wikipedia

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   The second use of brass is found in a group of locks of intricate mechanism, the cases of which are of brass cast in openwork with a delicate pattern of scroll work and bird forms sometimes engraved. A further development shows solid brass cases covered with richly engraved designs (cf. Fig. 8).

7. Engraving - Wikipedia

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   Other terms often used for printed engravings are copper engraving, copper-plate engraving or line engraving. Steel engraving is the same technique, on steel or steel-faced plates, and was mostly used for banknotes, illustrations for books, magazines and reproductive prints, letterheads and similar uses from about 1790 to the early 20th century, when the technique became less popular, except ...