Federation+Fences

=Federation Fences=

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 * Victorian style houses were characterised by iron palisade or acorn-headed timber picket fences, while
 * Federation style houses provided plainer flat-topped timber picket fences, or sometimes a combination of masonry and wrought iron

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//Table thanks to Dave English,// Resurrection Gates and Fences From: []
 * 1850s || Gold rush economy || Colonial and Gothic || Simple pickets ||
 * 1880s || Victorian land boom || Victorian Ornate || Pickets/rippleiron ||
 * 1900s || Federation || Federation and Edwardian || Featured gates & caps ||
 * 1910s || Edwardian era / Ist world war || Edwardian || Arts & crafts ||
 * 1920s || Art Deco || Californian Bungalow || Woven wire ||
 * 1930s || Great Depression || Garden City movement || Chain mesh ||
 * 1940s || 2nd world war the low brick fence || Late deco, double brick homes || The low brick fence ||

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== Construction == In the most common construction, the pickets are mounted vertically on a pair of parallel stretchers (horizontal strips), one near the bottom and one near the top. > > > >
 * These strips are attached to posts (upright sturdy poles made of timber or possibly metal) that are driven into the ground.
 * The fence can be assembled from prefabricated sections, where the posts of each section are posted into the ground but
 * the pickets or boards that make up the fence wall are not inserted into the ground.
 * Federation style fences combine palings, lattice panels. and decorative finials.
 * The fence is usually built as either 2.4 or 2.7 feet high.

Edwardian and Federation Fence detailing
The following excellent examples are all from