| Description | Includes the following:
Notes on filing letters concerning incomplete wares (flasks); watch-cases with low quality joints etc; marking of foreign watch-cases; and proposals to exempt foreign watch-cases from assay
Letter from London Assay Office about a silver dog and lax trade practices with regard to fixing of base metal to silver articles – must send in wares complete and properly soldered together, 7 Dec 1908
Letters from London Assay Office regarding watch-case with inner bezel of base metal (and sketch). Not acceptable – must be of the same standard of gold or silver, Apr 1906
Letters from London Assay Office concerning brass weight with lion mark; and copy of letter from Weights & Measures Dept of Board of Trade, Apr 1901
Description transcribed from the Assay Office's finding aids for correspondence.
Sheffield Assay Office reference number: LE/5W. |