Description | Includes the following letter bundles arranged alphabetically (descriptions transcribed from the Assay Office's finding aids):
Letters A to E
Correspondence with Adie Brothers regarding various articles sent for assaying (with drawings), including ashtrays, cocktail shaker, shingle comb, menu holders and clock.
List of Directors and signatures from Adie Brothers, 1926 – 1935 (for Foreign Plate Act)
Letter from Adamez about volumetric tank, 16 Jul 1906
List of Directors and authorised signatures from Asprey & Co, London, 1920, 1923, 1926
Letter from Atkin Brothers, Sheffield, regarding insurance of goods sent for assay, 22 Nov 1932
List of directors and signatures from Atkin Brothers, Sheffield, 6 Dec 1922
Description and drawing from Atkin Brothers, Sheffield, of Waiter with copper coin inserts, 15 Jul 1902
Description and drawing from Atkin Brothers, Sheffield, of Queen’s chocolate box to be converted into a cigar lighter, 31 Aug 1901
Letter regarding a fly press, from James Archer & Co, Machine Tool Makers, 19 Apr 1898
Letters B
Letter from Bank of England concerning the transfer of £2,000 Conversion Stock and request for seal to be affixed, 10 Mar 1934
Letter and leaflet from W. H. Bailey Ltd, Salford, concerning a Counting Machine, 20 Jul 1912
Director’s signatures from Z Barraclough & Sons, Leeds, 20 Nov 1925
Director’s signatures from Barker Bros, Birmingham, 20 May 1925
Director’s signatures from Walter Belk & Son, Sheffield, 23 Aug 1923
Correspondence with Birmingham Jewellers’ and Silversmiths’ Association, including; circular on stainless silver, Jan 1934; article from ‘Birmingham Jeweller’ on ‘Unwanted Assay Office’, with request for reply, 2 Sep 1933; resolution requesting quantity discounts, 22 Jun [193?]; British Hallmarks used as Trade Marks in Canada – Elkington against P. W. Ellis Co. of Ottawa; transcripts of court case with a request for financial aid towards costs, Nov 1929; letter regarding cigarette cases made in Germany, imported to India (by H Morser) as Sheffield made, with forged marks, 3 Jul 1923
Director’s signatures from Alfred Biggin & Son, Sheffield, 12 Jan 1920
Director’s signatures from AC Bloxham, London, 28 Sep 1926
Letter from Branson & Son, Solicitors, accepting position of Law Clerk, 14 Nov 1932
Letter from Branson & Son, Solicitors, about Conversion Stock Certificate, 21 Mar 193?
Letter from Thomas Bradbury & Sons about import of goods to Dublin – complaint from West & Son about paying for two hallmarks, Dec 1927
Letter from Thomas Bradbury & Sons about Paktong, old map of Sheffield & date letters for book he was compiling, 28 Mar 1927
Letter from Thomas Bradbury & Sons about London Agent of British Chamber of Commerce in the Argentine, May 1919
Report from Thomas Bradbury & Sons of meeting at Home Office about preventing abuse of British Hallmarks abroad, 10 Oct 191?
Letter from Thomas Bradbury & Sons about Assay Office’s crest, and publication of Register, 19 Mar 1911
Letter from Thomas Bradbury & Sons about crest and identifying marks on candelabra, 23 Jan 1911
Letter from Thomas Bradbury & Sons about use of ‘Sterling’ punch by Office, 17 Oct [191?]
Letter from Thomas Bradbury & Sons about candlesticks marked TD – also copy of letter sent to D Westropp, Dublin, about knife handles, 15 Jul 1909
Sheffield date letters, 1773 – 1838
Letter from Thomas Bradbury & Sons concerning collecting examples of marks, 9 Jan 1903
Letter from Thomas Bradbury & Sons about Gorham trade mark, 13 Jan 1902
Director’s signatures from Brookes & Crookes Ltd, 6 Nov 1931
Letter from MA Brown regarding Sheffield Plate and hallmarking regulations, 12 Feb 1926
New Director’s signature from George Butler & Co, 19 Aug 1930
Director’s signatures from John Bull & Co, Bedford, 26 Oct 1925
Letters C
Gold and silver hallmarks from the Egyptian Government Assay Office, 19 Feb 1922
Foreign hallmarks supplementary chart from the Egyptian Government Assay Office, 1924
Correspondence with the Egyptian Government Assay Office about protection of British hallmarks in Egypt, 24 Dec 1921, 19 Feb 1922
Correspondence with the Egyptian Government Assay Office about necessity for EPNS goods to be marked ‘Plated’ for import to Egypt, 4 Oct 1921
Letter from the Egyptian Government Assay Office about German goods with forged Sheffield mark, 9 Jul 1921
Letter from Chief Constable’s Office, Sheffield, requesting B. W. Watson to test chains for Wallasey Police in Thomas Kelly Case, 30 Jun 1923
Letter from Younge Wilson & Co, Solicitors, regarding Canadian Chamber of Commerce deploring illegal use of British hallmarks, and suggesting that Canada should have its own Assay Office, 3 Nov 1920
Letter from Charles Churchill & Co, Engineers, about faulty cutting pliers, 29 Apr 1895
Corrections by William Chaffers to his book on hallmarks – various problems associated with Sheffield marks, 20 Oct 1874
Directors’ signatures from Alexander Clark Company, 17 Aug 1917
Directors’ signatures from Frank Cobb & Co, 7 Feb 1933
Directors’ signatures from Cohens and Charles Solomon, and request to know whereabouts of punches, 28 Aug 1924
Estimate for interior decorations from J & S Collier, 7 Dec 1921
Letter from C. H. Collins & Sons explaining use of Lion trade marks on boxes, 1 May [191?]
Copyright application from Copyright Registry for Sheffield Assay Office Register, 30 Jan 1911
Receipt from Copyright Office, British Museum, for Sheffield Assay Office Register, 24 Apr 1911
Receipt from Copyright Office, British Museum, for ‘Old Silver Platers and their Marks’, 5 Sep 190?
Letter from J. Y. Cowlishaw & E. Bell, Silver Knife Makers, about legality of riveting silver sides to cigar cutters and pocket knives, 17 Nov 1905. Accompanied by H. Westwood’s opinion that offence has been committed regarding the above, 15 Nov 1905
Correspondence with Custom House about exemption of silver below British standard – crucifixes for France, 1 Feb 1934, 14 Feb 1934
Letter from Custom House concerning Duty payable on plated spoons and forks, 12 Dec 1931
[Letter from Custom House?] regarding Duty on watches and cases to be reintroduced, 22 Jun 1925
Letter from C. H. Collins & Sons agreeing to use of Lion only on boxes, 2 May 1913, 19 Apr 1913, 23 Apr 1913
Letters D
Directors’ signatures from Davis, Duff & Son, 14 Nov 19??
Directors’ signatures from James Dixon & Sons, 5 Sep 1920
Use of decimal system for weights, from James Dixon & Sons, 7 Aug 1895
Recommendation from James Dixon & Sons of Alfred Nicholson for Assay Warden, 16 May 1894
Prices from Dublin Assay Office for assaying and marking, 1909
Revised prices from Dublin Assay Office for assaying and marking, 1 Jun 1919
Letters E
Correspondence with Edinburgh Assay Office regarding marking watch cases that are a mixture of gold and steel, or gold and platinum, Jun 1936
Correspondence with Edinburgh Assay Office concerning Barker Brothers Silver Co, New York, trying to register ‘Thistle’ mark, 28 Jun 1935, 20 Nov 1935
Sketches of shield and letters from Edinburgh Assay Office for Jan 1933 – Dec 1935 (for Jubilee Mark) and request for Sheffield letters, 18 Feb 1935
Correspondence with Edinburgh Assay Office regarding dessert spoons with forged mark, submitted by John Brown, Dumfries, Mar – Apr 1932
Directors’ signatures from Elkington & Co, 7 Jan 1926, 19 Feb 1926
Directors’ signatures from Edward & Sons Ltd, 22 Jun 1925, 24 Jun 1925
Directors’ signatures from Thomas Ellin & Co Ltd, 29 Jun 1922, 14 Sep 1926
Directors’ signatures from Ellis & Co (Birmingham), 2 Aug 1923
Letter from Inland Revenue confirming exemption of Sheffield Assay Office from Corporation Profits Tax, 2 Dec 1920
Letter from Inland Revenue confirming that Sheffield Assay Office is liable to pay tax on profits of receipts over expenditure, 12 Sep 1921
Letters G
Correspondence with Glasgow Goldsmiths’ Company about use of Lion Rampant by H Abrahams, May 1919
Letters M
Complaint from Mappin & Webb about treatment of gold boxing trophy sent for assay, Dec 1936
Correspondence with Master Silversmiths’ Association about protection of hallmarks abroad, 1902 – 1924
Letter from R. F. Mosley Ltd undertaking to send silver bag-rings with coffee pots for assay, Feb 1926
Letters N
Correspondence with the National Union of Manufacturers about mesh bags with forged hallmarks, Feb 1925
Correspondence with W Naismith about cigarette case with forged mark, sold by H. Morser & Co, Mar 1925
Correspondence with, and certificates from. the National Physical Laboratory about volumetric apparatus – pipettes and burettes, 1903 – 1904
Letters O
Correspondence with L. Oertling Ltd about adjustments to weights (also contains Form A3 issued by Standards Dept of Board of Trade – Bullion Balance Weights), Mar – Jun 1931
Correspondence with James Osborn about Robert Trickett (RG28), and mark on knife handle (sent in by Osborns much later)
Letters P
Details from Paris regarding the assay methods employed in France on platinum (in French), Oct 1925
Agreement regarding Post Office Telegraphs for the installation of telephone lines – and various charge increases (Leopold Street), Apr 1916, Apr 1921
Sheffield Assay Office reference number: LE/13. |