'An Eighteenth-Century English Brassfounder's Catalogue', an article by R.W.Symonds for Antiques magazine dated Febriary 1931, discusses the origins of a specific 18th century catalogue and illustrates many similar designs to those offered for sale here. Some of these patterns feature in a contemporary catalogue preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (see T.R.Crom, An Eighteenth Century English Brass Hardware Catalogue, Florida, 1994, plates VIII and IX).