Sheffield Plate, Its History, Manufacture and Art: With Makers' Names and Marks, Also a Note on Foreign Sheffield Plate, with Illustrations |
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Sheffield Plate, Its History, Manufacture and Art: With Makers' Names and ... Henry Newton Veitch No preview available - 2018 |
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appears ARTICLE AND OWNER Assay Office Author Author's Collection base metal Birmingham body Bolsover borax Boulton burnished candlesticks Charles St Circa Coach Plater Collection of Viscountess copper copper-plate covered decorated die-work Ditto EARLIEST LATEST MENTION Edmund St electro-plating Entrée dishes flat flat-chased Fleet St fluted foot French Plating gadroon gilding Gilt and Plated gold hammer Hampton St handles Hill St inches ingot inside iron John Lancaster St Lane Lincoln's Inn Fields Livery St Long Acre Matthew Boulton method NAME AND ADDRESS Old Sheffield oval patent Paul's Sq PERIOD PLATE pierced placed Plated Buckle Maker Plated Button Maker plated wares Queen St raised Registered mark REMARKS rolled round Salt Cellar seam Sheffield Assay Office Sheffield Plate shield shillings side Snow Hill Snuffer Soho solder solid silver specimens stamp steel struck swage teapot Thos Tray vessels Viscountess Wolseley Wine Cooler workman
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Page 5 - ... and silver, like to gold or silver, and the same sell and put in gage to many men not having full knowledge thereof, for whole gold and whole silver, to the great deceit, loss, and hindrance of the common people...
Page 269 - Sheffield companies, or by the said wardens or assayer or assayers, or any or either of them ; or shall transpose or remove, or cause or procure to be transposed or removed, from one piece of wrought plate to another...
Page 18 - I passed through Sheffield, which is one of the foulest towns in England in the most charming situation ; there are two-and-twenty thousand inhabitants making knives and scissors ; they remit eleven thousand pounds a week to London.
Page 74 - Hutton, appears with infinite variation ; and though the original date is rather uncertain, yet we well remember the long coats of our grandfathers covered with half a gross of high tops, and the cloaks of our grandmothers ornamented with a horn button nearly the size of a crown piece, a watch, or a John-apple, curiously wrought, as having passed through the Birmingham press.
Page 8 - For so common were all sorts of treen stuff in old time that a man should hardly find four pieces of pewter (of which one was peradventure a salt) in a good farmer's house...
Page 212 - Brugnatelli3 mentions that he 'had gilt in a complete manner two large silver medals by bringing them into communication by means of a steel wire with the negative pole of a voltaic pile and keeping them one after the other immersed in ammoniuret of gold, newly made and well saturated'.
Page 211 - ... who have taken mercurial preparations internally, seldom fail to observe the readiness with which the mercury transudes through their pores, attaching itself to the gold of their watches, rings, sleeve-buttons, or ear.rings, and rendering them of a white colour. A piece of gold, of the thickness even of a guinea, being rubbed with quicksilver, is soon penetrated by it, and thereby made so fragile, that it may be broken between the fingers with ease : and if more quicksilver be added, the mixture...
Page 75 - ... (about the size of a silver dollar,) " a watch, or a John-apple, curiously wrought as having passed through the Birmingham press." Though, continues Button, the common round button keeps on with the steady pace of the day, yet we sometimes see the oval, the square, the pea, the concave, and the pyramid, flash into existence. In some branches of traffic, the wearer calls loudly for new fashions ; but in this, the fashions tread upon each other, and crowd upon the wearer.
Page 200 - Having prepared the two bodies, place them on a fire in a stove or furnace, where they must remain until the silver and borax placed along the edges of the metals melt, and until the adhesion of the gold with the metal is perfect. Remove the ingot carefully from the stove. By this process the ingot is plated with gold, and prepared ready for rolling into sheets.
Page 211 - ... the gold, just as water absorbs into its substance a piece of salt or sugar. Persons who have taken mercurial preparations internally, seldom fail to observe the readiness with which the mercury transudes through their pores, attaching itself to the gold of their watches, rings, sleeve-buttons, or ear-riii^s, and rendering them of a white colour.