Gilda Aurifabrorum: A History of English Goldsmiths and Plateworkers, and Their Marks Stamped on Plate, Copied in Facsimile from Celebrated Examples; and the Earliest Records Preserved at Goldsmith's Hall, London, with Their Names, Addresses, and Dates of Entry, 2500 Illustrations, Also Historical Accounts of the Goldsmiths' Company and Their Hall Marks; Their Regalia; the Mint; Closing of the Exchequer; Goldsmith-bankers; Shop Signs; a Copious Index, &c. &c., Preceded by an Introductory Essay on the Goldsmiths' Art

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Reeves and Turner, 1899 - Gold-plating - 267 pages

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Page 66 - But the Mayor liked his company so well, and was grown so intimate, that he pursued him hastily, and, catching him fast by the hand, cried out, with a vehement oath and accent : ' Sir, you shall stay and take t'other bottle.
Page i - Hall Marks on Gold and Silver Plate." Gilda Aurifabrorum, a History of English Goldsmiths and Plateworkers and their Marks stamped on Plate, copied in facsimile from celebrated Examples and the earliest Records preserved at Goldsmiths...
Page 57 - E'en such is man ; whose thread is spun, Drawn out, and cut, and so is done. The rose withers, the blossom blasteth ; The flower fades, the morning hasteth ; The sun sets, the shadow flies ; The gourd consumes, — and man he dies...
Page 84 - In crowds of brokers overawe the stocks ; Suspend the worldly business of the day, And, to enrich thy mind, attend my lay. O thou ! whose penetrative wisdom found The South Sea rocks and shelves, where thousands drown'd ; When credit sunk, and commerce gasping lay, Thou stood'st, nor sent'st one bill unpaid away ; When not a guinea chink'd on Martin's boards, And Atwell's self was drain'd of all his hoards, Thou stood'st (an Indian king in size and hue) Thy unexhausted shop was our Peru.
Page 225 - Well, well, is this their duty? Is this their office? Is this their calling? Should we have ministers of the church to be comptrollers of the mints? Is this a meet office for a priest that hath cure of souls? Is this his charge? I would here ask one question; I would fain know who controlleth the devil at home in his parish, while he controlleth the mint?
Page 43 - Steel-yard to the usurped privilege. Thirdly, to grant as few licences as you can. Fourthly, to come in as small debt as you can beyond seas. Fifthly, to keep your credit, and specially with your own merchants ; for it is they who must stand by you at all events in your necessity.
Page 207 - Above the band are eight sapphires, surmounted by eight diamonds, between which are eight festoons, consisting of 148 diamonds. " In the front of the crown, and in the centre of a diamond Maltese cross, is the famous ruby, said to have been given to Edward, Prince of Wales, son of...
Page 4 - I passed through Sheffield, which is one of the foulest towns in England in the most charming situation ; there are two-andtwenty thousand inhabitants making knives and scissors ; they remit eleven thousand pounds a week to London. One man there has discovered the art of plating copper with silver ; I bought a pair of candlesticks for two guineas that are quite pretty.
Page 8 - Goldsmith's Row in Cheapside and Lombard Street should be supplied with Goldsmiths ; and that those who keep shops scatteringly in other parts of the city, should have shops procured for them in Cheapside or Lombard Street, upon penalty that those of the Assistants and Livery, that did not take care herein, should lose their places.
Page 40 - 16 rings of line gold to be graven with the well of pitie, the well of mercie, and the well of everlasting life ", and to be given to his friends.

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