Author: Charles James Jackson
Title: English Goldsmiths and Their Marks: A History of the Goldsmiths and Plate Workers of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Description: London, Macmillan and Co. 1905. Cloth. A comprehensive guide to English goldsmiths and their marks, illustrated. Previously owned by the Birmingham Assay Office Library. A history of goldsmiths and plate-workers of England Scotland and Ireland with over eleven thousand marks reproduced in facsimile from authentic examples of plate, and tables of date-letters and other hall-marks employed in the assay offices of the United Kingdom. This copy was previously owned by the Birmingham Assay Office Library. The Birmingham Assay Office was founded in 1773 to provide assaying (testing) and hallmarking of precious metal items (gold, silver, platinum and palladium) as required by the Hallmarking Act. It has been a centre of expert opinion and independent assessment of jewellery and precious metals for nearly 250 years.Including six illustrations, collated and complete, and many tables and diagrams throughout. With typed notes bound in on the changes of letters at different assay offices and date letters to which the Jubilee mark refers, as well as other tipped in notes throughout, all valuable additions by the Birmingham Assay Office. With an errata slip bound in prior to the introduction and a publisher's advert to rear with order form bound in.With the Birmingham Assay Office Library stamp to the front free-endpaper. In red cloth binding. Externally, smart, with some bumping and rubbing to the spine and extremities. Cloth fading and fraying slightly in places. Ex-library stamp to the front free-endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Some age-toning to the fore-edge, and the odd handling mark or pencil annotation to the pages. Otherwise, pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Various. Very Good .

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