RefNoSAO/2/2/5/4
TitleFrom London and Chester Assay Offices
DescriptionIncludes the following:

Notes on filing letters about cartridge cases made of brass – completed as muffineers with silver top; charges for marking – Glasgow and foreign gold watch-cases; charges for marking in special cases; election of members to Chester Goldsmiths’ Company; and cigar cutter scales.

Letters from London Assay Office on candlesticks stamped double and charged with solder – sent by Hawksworth and Eyre. To be refused in future (others had wrongly been passed), Apr 1904

Letters from London Assay Office about silver chain purses and bags – had been accepted without mesh – must now have all parts sent, Aug/Sep 1908

Letters from London Assay Office about charges for marking (and lists enclosed), Nov/Dec 1903

Letter from London Assay Office about charges for marking watch-cases and use of foreign plate marks for watch-cases, 10 Dec 1906
Also reduction in marking charges for watch-cases, 7 Dec 1907

Letter from Chester Assay Office about marking charges and lists of charges, Dec 1903, 1906

Letter regarding Glasgow’s reduction in charges for foreign watch-cases, 18 Dec 1908

Correspondence with London Assay Office about chatelaine hooks – incomplete without chain, Jul 1902 – Feb 1906

Correspondence with London Assay Office about cigar lighters fitted with base metal cartridge cases, sent by Hawksworth, Eyre & Co. Should all be silver but passed in error at London, despite letters from Sheffield, Aug/Sep 1901

Letter from Chester Assay office noting that cigar lighters had not been sent there, 29 Aug 1901

Notes on filing letters about base metal cup with silver handles

Telegram from London Assay Office to say that coins of the realm must be previously soldered to wares, but not assayed, 14 Feb 1901

Letter from Chester Assay Office commenting that wares with coins not sent there, but that it will make sure coins are soldered in, if sent, 15 Feb 1901

Description transcribed from the Assay Office's finding aids for correspondence.

Sheffield Assay Office reference number: LE/5C.
Date1901 - 1908
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AccessStatusOpen
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