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2024 3   Accessories

This month I'm presenting another type of accessories.
On some pages of the building booklets you can see a windcock, cross, etc. on the buildings' towers.

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This is not a figment of the draughtsman's imagination, but these were also available to order.
The factory sold all kinds of accessories to make the stone buildings look nicer.
Tower tops, window inserts, flower boxes, additional figurine sets: all these accessories were aimed at the wallets of the customers.
They very easily got lost over time, and today's builder who has one in his collection is lucky.

It is also true of the tops that they look better in the building plan booklet than in the original.

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There are four metal tabs under the cross, flag, weathercock, etc., which can be adjusted by a little folding to the top of the peak on which you want to put it.
The painted colour of the metal doesn't always match the colour of the stones, which are otherwise in a variety of blues.

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In the picture below, you can see the after-manufactured tops by Ernst Offermann, which still need to have metal bottom added, and then painted to the right colour. The long rods still need to have the flags made and added.

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The stone catalogue shows a page of the tops available for order.

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