The Iron Sentinel of Southwest Pass Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Gentlemans Ritual — Stelton

The Gentlemans Ritual — Stelton Shaving Brush Patent comes from the great age of the American barbershop — when a shave was a ritual

to be seen

smoking rooms

The Croce Atomizer Patent — a Study in Vapor and Vanity is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling

The draftsman's hand lingers on every brace and cross-strut

The Iron Sentinel of Southwest Pass Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Gentlemans Ritual — SteltonThe Iron Sentinel of Southwest Pass a screw pile skeleton driven into the soft Mississippi delta where the river bleeds into the Gulf, its braced iron legs drafted with the quiet confidence of engineers who knew that mud, not stone, would have to hold the light steady against every hurricane season. About the Source Bella Frye sources lighthouse drawings from American maritime archives the U. S. Coast Guard, National Archives, and historical societies