There is a bronze wreath on the wall.

Besides flathead bronze screws, silicon bronze Stronghold nails ( made by Independent Nail & Packing Co., Bridgewater, Mass. ) are used extensively in assembly and Weldwood resorcinol glue is used in all the joints.

Ranking from the very few bronzes survived to us is the masterpiece bronze Piraeus Apollo.

The type is represented by neo-Attic Imperial Roman copies of the late 1st or early 2nd century, modelled upon a supposed Greek bronze original made in the second quarter of the 5th century BCE, in a style similar to works of Polykleitos but more archaic.

The marble is a Hellenistic or Roman copy of a bronze original by the Greek sculptor Leochares, made between 350 and 325 BCE.

Eventually, humans learned to smelt metals such as copper and tin from ore, and, around 2500 BC, began alloying the two metals to form bronze, which is much harder than its ingredients.

While the use of iron started to become more widespread around 1200 BC, mainly because of interruptions in the trade routes for tin, the metal is much softer than bronze.

A large hieratic bronze of Innocent X by Algardi is now to be found in the Capitoline Museums.

By comparison, bronze is principally an alloy of copper and tin.

* Red brass is both an American term for the copper-zinc-tin alloy known as gunmetal, and an alloy which is considered both a brass and a bronze.

Many have similar tin contents to contemporary bronze artefacts and it is possible that some copper-zinc alloys were accidental and perhaps not even distinguished from copper.

However, since " bronze " is a somewhat imprecise term, and historical pieces have variable compositions, in particular with an unclear boundary with brass, modern museum and scholarly descriptions of older objects increasingly use the more cautious and inclusive term " copper alloy " instead.

The word bronze is borrowed from, itself borrowed from ( compare Medieval ), whose origin is unclear.

Though bronze is generally harder than wrought iron, with Vickers hardness of 60 – 258 vs. 30 – 80, the Bronze Age gave way to the Iron Age ; this happened because iron was easier to find and easier to process.

The population migrations around 1200 – 1100 BC reduced the shipping of tin around the Mediterranean ( and from Great Britain ), limiting supplies and raising prices. Bianzhong of Marquis Yi of Zeng, Spring and Autumn Period ( 476BC-221BC ) As ironworking improved, iron became cheaper ; and as cultures advanced from wrought iron to forged iron, they learned how to make steel, which is stronger than bronze and holds a sharper edge longer.

There are many different bronze alloys but modern bronze is typically 88 % copper and 12 % tin.

Historical " bronzes " are highly variable in composition, as most metalworkers probably used whatever scrap was on hand ; the metal of the 12th century English Gloucester Candlestick is bronze containing a mixture of copper, zinc, tin, lead, nickel, iron, antimony, arsenic with an unusually large amount of silver – between 22. 5 % in the base and 5. 76 % in the pan below the candle.

The Benin Bronzes are really brass, and the Romanesque Baptismal font at St Bartholomew's Church, Liège is described as both bronze and brass.

Bismuth bronze is a bronze alloy with a composition of 52 % copper, 30 % nickel, 12 % zinc, 5 % lead, 1 % bismuth.

Typically bronze only oxidizes superficially ; once a copper oxide ( eventually becoming copper carbonate ) layer is formed, the underlying metal is protected from further corrosion.

The landscape's most dominant feature is the central lawn, which was listed as a " medallion site " by the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1999, one of only three central campuses designated as such.

The award is $ 5, 000, a medallion and a citation.

The necklace is called a shitoki if it has a medallion.

It is a very simple granite grave, with a bronze medallion representing the scientist ’ s profile.

The prize is awarded " irrespective of nationality, race, creed, or ideology "; the recipients receive US $ 100, 000, a citation certificate, and since 1987, a bronze medallion.

The Latin inscription on the reverse of the medallion — firmitas, utilitas, venustas ( English: durability, utility, and beauty )— is inspired by Roman architect Vitruvius.

The Tony Award medallion was designed by Art Director Herman Rosse and is a mix of mostly brass and a little bronze, with a nickel plating on the outside ; a black acrylic glass base, and the nickel-plated pewter swivel.

" The award is $ 250 ( since raised to $ 500 ) and a medallion, modelled after the one given to Milton Acorn.

In the centre of the coin, the allegorical figure of Providentia with a medallion of the Roman god, Janus, who had two faces, is displayed.

There is a medallion search, with daily clues and where the winner gets a $ 500 " Pierz Bucks " from local businesses to spend within the town.

There is also a flea market in the park and a treasure hunt in which a medallion is hidden and the finder gets a prize.

Established in 1962, and later renamed, the medallion is named for Camp Fire's watchword " WoHeLo ".

Another celebrated work from Rome is the gold medallion of " Leda and the Swan " executed for the Gonfaloniere Gabbriello Cesarino, and which is now in the Vienna museum.

* A carved stone medallion, a metre or more in diameter, showing Garrick is on display at Birmingham Central Library.

Note that the medallion worn by Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles is engraved with the number " 290 ", the original dockyard numbder for the Alabama.

A medallion accredited to Cornelius Agrippa is used in Mike Mignola's comic book short story Hellboy: The Corpse ; it was mentioned as being effective against a vampire cat from Kyoto and proved valuable against a war-god / pig-man.

The medallion is so named because it was minted at Trier in what is now Germany.

In the hôtel de ville is still shown a medallion of Louis XIV, and in the church of St Remy a bronze crucifix of some importance — both works by his hand.

Commemoration Medallion of Marriage of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and Princess Fawzia of Egypt-March 1939-The medallion is now in Sahebgharanie palace in Niavaran Palace complex

In Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn, it is a medallion containing the imprisoned spirit of a dark goddess, who can only be freed by a song called the Galdr of Release.

Almost opposite is the former Odeon Cinema, now Habitat, with its iconic façade which carries high upon it a large sculptured medallion of the now almost-forgotten William Friese-Greene, who claimed to have invented celluloid film and cameras before any subsequent patents.

The insignia of the order is in the form of an oval medallion with an oak tree, a shield with the Royal Arms of the United Kingdom hanging from one branch, and on the left a mounted knight in armour.