The Silversmith's Handbook

The Silversmith's Handbook is a book by George E. Gee. A list headed By the Same Author names, among others, The Goldsmith’s Handbook, containing full instructions for the alloying and working of gold, and The Hall-Marking of Jewellery, Practically Considered. The contents list gives Chapter V the title The Alloys of Silver and names, among others, Silversmith’s Alloys, Filigree Work, Alloy and Amalgam.

The text says that after the removal of the bar of metal from the ingot mould, it should be plunged into a vessel of cold water, dried, and then carefully weighed. The text says the rolling of large ingots of the metal is a distinct branch of the trade, carried on in separate premises established by certain firms, and that these establishments are called rolling-mills. The text says that, while France, Germany, and other countries may exhibit greater ingenuity, to England belongs the credit of producing the best finished and the most durable work of any nation in the world.