In a message dated 2/26/2014 10:56:15 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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You are
correct - generally copper or sheet iron with galvanized coating. The stamped
ornament (egg and dart, lambs tongues, bosses, etc, is zinc. You can sometimes
tell if it's galvanized because the galvanic coating will wear and the iron
begins to rust. Stamped zinc will not rust.
Yes, I remember that, the little doodads all shiny, the iron around it
shot. Why did they bother stamping in zinc?
On Kitty's
cornice (32 E 64th St. all of the ornament, including lions heads and
modillions, were of stamped zinc- sometimes using up to a dozen
individual stampings. Check out the WF Norman Co. catalogue
(online)
I am astonished, I always assumed it was such a quality-folk building it
would all be copper.
Dreams die hard. c