| Description | Papers collected, donated and/or purchased by the Assay Office in relation to the silver, gold and electro-plate industry. They comprise the personal papers of designers and makers, papers related to church plate collections, papers of Birmingham Assay Masters, articles, pamphlets, signatures, and photocopied Select Committee minutes related to the establishment of Assay Offices in Sheffield and Birmingham in 1773.
Includes the following series:
Personal Papers, 1843 - 1983 (SAO/12/1)
Signatures, 1986 - 2002 (SAO/12/2)
Papers related to silver and church plate collections, 1886 - c. 1997 (SAO/12/3)
Pamphlets and articles, 1878 - [c.1996] (SAO/12/4)
Objects, 1889 (SAO/12/5)
Papers related to the establishment of Assay Offices in Birmingham and Sheffield, [1970s] (SAO/12/6) |