| Description | Includes the following:
Notes on filing letters about unhallmarked wares for sale
Letters from London Assay Office regarding cigar cutter scales, and fruit and pen knife scales, Dec 1905
Letter from London Assay Office about scissor bows with double plate – to be broken, 11 Apr 1905
Letters concerning serviette holder with silver hook for plated holder – incomplete, Sep 1908
Letter from Chester Assay Office agreeing that silver hooks for plated serviette holder must be attached to silver, not plated goods, 23 Sep 1908; accompanied by an acknowledgement of ‘Old Silver Platers and Their Marks’, 26 Sep 1908
Acknowledgement from London Assay Office of ‘Old Silver Platers and Their Marks’, 24 Sep 1908
Letter from London Assay Office regarding shield with silver panel – to be marked so can only be seen when detached, 14 Feb 1900
Letter from Chester Assay Office concerning shield with silver panel – only marked if attached to silver, not base metal, 14 Feb 1900
Letter from London Assay Office about shield of silver with copper panel - to be marked so can only be seen when detached, 11 Sep 1907
Letter and telegram from London Assay Office regarding silver shield with plated centre panel – must give satisfactory reason and mark out of sight; foreign wares soldered together in England and presented as British; and warning about low standard watch-cases, 21 Oct 1907
Letter from London Assay Office concerning silver shield sent by W Hutton & Son, together with copy of a letter from Sheffield and handwritten note by B. W. Watson (Border was to have been plated and pinned on later), 3/4 Dec 1907
Notes on filing letters about silver mounts to base metal wares; unnecessary solder; and soft solder
Letters from Chester Assay Office regarding silver handles on plated knife blades etc – objectionable practice, but hard to stop, Jun/Jul 1902
Letters from London Assay Office about inkstand from Joseph Rodgers – refused unless bottom properly soldered before marking, Jul 1907, Mar 1908
Description transcribed from the Assay Office's finding aids for correspondence.
Sheffield Assay Office reference number: LE/5S. |