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قراءة كتاب The Silversmith's Handbook Containing full instructions for the alloying and working of silver

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The Silversmith's Handbook
Containing full instructions for the alloying and working of silver

The Silversmith's Handbook Containing full instructions for the alloying and working of silver

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” ” 2/3 ½ ”

This Table is based on the market price of fine silver being 3/- per ounce.

Table of Revised and Up-to-date Cost Prices of the Different Solders in Chapter VII.

Page. Quality of solder. Cost price 1885. Cost price 1907 and 1921.
78 Hardest silver solder For 3/9 per oz. read 2/5 per oz.
79 Hard silver solder 3/6 2/3
79 Easy silver solder 3/2 2/0
81 Best silver solder 3/9 2/5
82 Medium silver solder 3/6 2/3
82 Easy silver solder 3/3 2/1
83 Common silver solder 3/- 1/11
84 Enamelling silver solder 3/9 2/5
84 Ditto 3/2 2/0
84 Filigree solder 3/9 2/5
85 Quick-running silver solder 3/- 1/11
85 Silver solder for chains 3/- 1/11
85 Easy solder for chains 3/- 1/11
85 Common silver solder 2/9 1/9
86 Common easy solder 2/9 1/9
86 Arsenic silver solder 3/9 2/5
86 Ditto 3/6 2/3 ½
86 Easy silver solder 3/2 2/0 ½
87 Common easy silver solder 2/9 1/9

This Table is based on the market price of fine silver being 3/- per ounce.


CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.

Page
Silver a Precious Metal 1
Economy of Treatment 1
Working Silversmiths 2
English and Foreign Workmen 2
Technical Education 2
Pure Silver 3
Plate and Ornamental Wares 4

CHAPTER I.

Silver.

Silver, Characteristics of 5
Silver for Filigree Work 5
Indian Filigree Workers 5
Malleability of Silver 6
Ductility of Silver 6
Test for Pure Silver 6
Silver known to the Ancients 6
Silver Currency 6
Polished Silver 7
Tarnishing of Silver 7
Density of Silver 7
Fusibility of Silver 7
Heating Power of Silver 7
Action of Silver under Great Heat 8
Hardness of Silver 8
Nitrate of Silver 8
Silver resists Aqua-regia 8
Chief Places of Filigree Manufacture 8
Chief Uses of Silver 9
Price of Silver, Commercial 9
Ores of Silver 9
Dissolution of Silver 9
Caustic Alkalies 10
Nitre 10
Vegetable Acids 10

CHAPTER II.

Sources of Silver.

Silver-mining 11
Great Britain 11
British Isles' Yield of Silver

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