| Description | The Calculation books include descriptions of objects, their dimensions, serial number, rough sketches and sometimes photographs, cost of the metal, hard and soft solder, stamping, hammering, balls, engining, turning, casting, filing, piercing, fluting, making, dressing, chasing, cleaning, engraving, pressing, ebony handle, knob, joints, bitting, buffing, plating, gilding, burnishing, polishing, handing, finishing etc. and variations on designs. Sometimes the designer’s or workman’s name, if beaded or pierced, sometimes the patent number, and if followed designs of parts of other product numbers.
Products include: pickle jars, salad bowls, syphons, sauce stands, shield soup bowls, sauce boats, water jugs, kettle stands, dessert dishes, teapot, trays, tea urns, toast racks, coffee sets, plates, trays, cake baskets etc.
Apparently a second series of Plated Nickel Silver (PNS) calculation books. For books indicated as 'Huttons' on spine, see DIXON/9/5. |