The Silversmith's Handbook Containing full instructions for the alloying and working of silver

Having reached a most important and very interesting part of our subject, viz. the working of silver, and being desirous of making this treatise useful to the silver-worker in a...

By the application of the processes about to be described, the finishing touches in their relation to articles or wares of silver manufacture are effected. These processes, as a...

[C] See observations on Depreciation of Cost Price of Silver in Preface to Fourth Edition (pp. vii, viii), and the new Table of Cost Prices of Alloys in this Chapter, following...

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[D] See observations on Depreciation of Cost Price of Silver in Preface to Fourth Edition (pp. vii, viii), and the new Table of Cost Prices of Alloys in this Chapter, following...

A large proportion of the silver of commerce is extracted from ores (which are too poor to allow of their being smelted or fused) by a process called amalgamation. Founded on th...

The processes of melting and properly mixing silver with its alloys in a crucible are among the first operations of the silversmith, and are, moreover, of great importance in th...

Fine silver enters freely into combination with nearly all the useful metals, but its most important alloys are those prepared from copper, the latter substance being more suita...

Manufacturing silversmiths, and all persons trading in silver wares of more than five pennyweights each, are compelled to take out a licence; articles under that weight being ex...

In all silversmiths' establishments, the economical or waste-saving processes, as they are termed, require special and careful attention, so that the actual working loss, or tha...

Copper, 1 oz.; nickel, 3 dwts. 12 grs; bismuth, 6 grs.; zinc, 2 dwts. 12 grs.; soft iron, 12 grs.; tin, 12 grs. This compound is said to form a fusible and malleable metal, that...

This interesting process is performed in a reverberatory furnace of a very peculiar construction, the cupel employed on the large scale differing somewhat from the ordinary one,...

Pure silver is, next to gold, the finest metal, but of a smoother and more polished nature. It may be said to be almost infinitely malleable, but it will not so easily yield or...

The undermentioned white alloys have their various uses in the industrial and mechanical arts, some being employed as common silver, whilst others are manufactured as near as po...

Foreign Silver Standards 207 French Work, Duty on 208 Continental Silversmiths 209 French Style of Work 209 German Style of Work 210 Indian Style of Work 210 Austrian Style of W...

Strictly speaking, silver mining does not exist as a distinct operation in Great Britain, for it can hardly be said that this country possesses any great quantity of silver ore....

Mechanical Uses of Silver 52 Filigree Work 52 Birmingham 52 London 52 Indian 53 Chief Places of Filigree Manufacture 53 Continental Cheap Labour 54 Hand-made Articles 54 Process...

The Act of Soldering 74 Cause of Inferior Manufactures 74 Tin in Solders 75 Filed Solders 76 Zinc in Silver Solder 76 Solders made with Copper and Silver 76 Hard Silver Solders...

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Silversmith's Alloys 40 Filigree Work 40 Alloy 41 Amalgam 41 Metals employed in the Industrial Arts 41 Metals, their various Characteristics 41 Principal Alloys of Silver 42 Cop...

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Production of the best and richest Surface 139 Oldest Method for Whitening 140 East Indian Silversmiths 141 Indian Mode of Whitening Silver 142 Another Mode of Whitening 142 Boi...

_The Assay of Silver Ores._ Silver and Mercury 15 Assaying of Silver Ores 16 Crucible Assay 16 Fluxes for Crucible Assay 16 Assay of Genuine Silver Ores 16 Carbonate of Soda 16...

Rolling Silver 108 Annealing Silver 109 Irregularities in Rolling-mills 110 Messrs Kemp's Mill 110, 111 Table of the Cost of Silver-rolling 112 Slitting Rollers 112 Breaking-dow...

Directions on Melting 94 Weighing Metal for the Crucible 94 Crucibles 95 Best Crucibles to employ 95 Fluxes: their Action on Crucibles 96 Fluxes employed in Melting 96 Testing t...

Silversmith's Alloys 197 Silver Wares 197 Cleaning Plate 198 Imitation Silver 198 Another 198 Removing Gold from Silver Articles 198 Oxidizing Silver 198 Dipping Mixture 199 Sil...

Silver, Characteristics of 5 Silver for Filigree Work 5 Indian Filigree Workers 5 Malleability of Silver 6 Ductility of Silver 6 Test for Pure Silver 6 Silver known to the Ancie...

Acts of the Legislature 186 43 George III., c. 69 186 6 George I., c. 11 187 31 George II., c. 32 188 32 George II., c. 14 188 24 George III., c. 53 188 37 George III., c. 90 18...

Melting Imitation Alloys 166 Common Silver Alloy 167 Another 167 Another 168 Another 168 Another 168 Another 168 Another 169 Another 169 Another 169 Another 169 Another 170 Anot...

Test-ring 31 Preparation of Bone-ash 32 Defects in Bone-ash Cupel 33 Currents of Air to the Furnace 33 Withdrawal of the Silver from the Cupel 34 Removal of the Litharge, Manner...

Working Loss 175 Lowest Estimate Real Loss 175 Total Working Loss 176 Shop Floors 177 Waste-saving Precautions 177, 178 Treatment of Waste 178 Burning of Polishings 179 Treatmen...

Silver-mining 11 Great Britain 11 British Isles' Yield of Silver 11 Spain 11 America 11 Native Silver 11 European Supplies of Silver 12 American Supply of Silver 12 The Richest...