| Upon the hearth of the Franklin stove, high andirons smile a fireside welcome from their burnished brass knobs. |
| I stared into a fire we built on the very andirons where the good oak had blazed and warmed him. |
| The document listed coal scuttles, pokers, grates, and fenders, but only one set of andirons. |
| Drawings of architectural metalwork, candlesticks, andirons, and plasterwork of the same earlier centuries fill his sketchbooks. |
| In the firebox stood a squat pair of black andirons, showing age and usage. |
| In 1873 he began designing andirons, grates, stove fronts, and other pieces of metalwork for the firm Barnard, Bishop, and Barnards of Norwich. |
