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JACKSON LEE NESBITT Soaking Pits (Sheffield Steel Corporation).
Etching, 1946. 252x346 mm; 10x135/8 inches, full margins. Edition of 70. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. Retif/Salzer 17.
After the ingots are stripped and taken by conveyor to the soaking pits, they are positioned upside down and given a blast of heat. The ingots are picked up by tongs and put back on the conveyor to go to the blooming mill. From: Jackson Lee Nesbitt, Stone and Press, 1993.
