Freshwaters are portrayed in many artforms, including books such as Kenneth Grahame's childrens' story Wind in the Willows.

These block-books, or xylographica, of which upwards of a hundred issues and editions, comprising some thirty separate works, have been recorded, were produced chiefly in the Netherlands and Germany.

The company may not have produced any futurists, though the rifle range ranked as one for many moons, and the rear sight looks like a post-impression when you look through it without the smoke-blower in operation; but there is a real artist who once adorned the company ranks, Clark Vorhees, who has had some beautiful pictures on exhibition at the Century Club.

Four equally spaced bolt holes on a bolt circle can be dimensioned at one hole with the notation (TYP) following it.