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

Our mode of whitening, 145

Oxidizing silver work, 163


Palladium alloy, 173

Pallion solder, 89

Parliament, Acts of, 190

Perchloride of iron, 205

Physical properties of metals, 51

Plain solid work, 127

Plate, 4
alloy for, 70
cleaning powder, 206
electro, 46, 150
French, 70
manufacture, 190
powder, 202

Plating, battery for, 150
discoverer of, 149
electro, 150
fluid silver, 206
soft solder, 201
solution, 157

Plating solutions, recovery of silver, 160

Platinum alloy, 172

Plumbago, crucible for melting, 99

Polished silver, 7

Polishing, 135
lathe, 137

Polishings, burning of, 179

Pouring off lemel, 107

Powder for silver, 200

Precious metal, 1

Precipitation of silver, 183

Preparation for assay, 17
of bone-ash, 32
of plating solution, 155
of solders, 87

Present state of silver trade, 128

Press, 127
stamping, 132

Price of silver, 9

Principal alloys of silver, 42
metals, 51

Process, scorification, 18
advantages of, 20
details of, 23
of silver recovery, 180-183

Producing various shades, 165

Production of surface, 135

Protect polish of metals, 200

Protoxide of copper, 44
of zinc, 102

Pure silver, 3

Purity of silver, 37


Qualities used by silversmiths, 64

Quantity of alloy for cupel, 35

Quick-running solder, 85


Raised work, 120

Raising, 122

Recovery of silver from waste, 160
of silver from waste waters, 183, 185

Refining surface of silver, 146

Remarks on silver solders, 80

Remedy in fineness, 72

Removal of litharge, 35

Removing gold from silver, 198
gold from silver-wares, 205

Resist varnish, 202

Ring, galvanic, 129
preparing wire for, 130

Rollers, slitting, 112
breaking-down, 112

Rolling, silver, 108
mills, 110
silver, 112
wire, 113


Sal-ammoniac, 103

Saving waste, 177

Scientific name for tin, 49

Scorification process, 18
assay, 20

Scorifier, 19
special form, 19

Scrap silver, 102

Scratch-brushing, 161
brush lathe, 161

Scriptural testimony, 37, 38

Sealing-wax, dissolving, 202

Sediment, 185

Separation of silver, 21

Shades, 165

Shop floors, 177

Shot copper for alloying, 44

Silver a precious metal, 1
action under heat, 8
alloy, dissolving, 202
alloy for coinage, 72
alloy, standard, 61
alloyed with tin, 49
alloys, Chinese, 170
alloys, common, 167, 172
alloys, imitation, 167, 172

Silver alloys, No. 1, 64
No. 2, 64
No. 3, 65
No. 4, 65
No. 5, 66
No. 6, 66
No. 7, 67
No. 8, 67
American supply, 12
and aqua-regia, 8
and mercury, 15
annealing, 109
articles, 194
articles, common, 147
assay, 14
British, chief sources, 13
British yield, 11
burnishing, 162
characteristics of, 5
chief alloy of, 30
chloride, 183
commercial, 9
currency, 6
currency, foreign, 13
density of, 7
dissolution of, 9
dissolving, 202
ductility of, 6
easily tarnished, 129
European supplies, 12
filigree work, 125
for filigree work, 5
fusibility of, 7
goods, brown colour, 146
hardness of, 8
heating power of, 7
imitation, 198
known to the ancients, 6
law on, 73
lead and tin in, 103
malleability of, 6
mechanical uses of, 52

Silver, method of calculating, 63
mining, 11
native, 11
nitrate of, 8, 148
ores, 9
ores, assay of, 16
oxidizing, 163, 198
plating fluid, 206
polished, 7
powder, 199, 200
powder for copper, 199
precipitating, 183
principal alloys, 42
pure, 3
purity of, after cupellation, 37
recovery of, 160
recovery, 177, 178
rolling, 109
rolling, table of cost, 112
solders, 81
solder, dissolving, 202
solder, easy, 82
solder, hardest, 79
solder, medium, 82
solder, zinc in, 46
solders, fusibility of, 80
standards, foreign, 207
stripping mixture, 200
surface, improving, 139
tarnished, 7
test for, 6
trade, art in, 123
uses of, 9
various qualities, 52
ware, 69, 195
ware, French, 69
ware, German, 71
wares, alloys for, 72
wares, removing gold, 205
wares, testing, 203
weighing, 30
whitening of, 140

Silver work, burnished, 124
work, hollow, 131
yield of, 13

Silversmiths, 63
alloys, 40, 197
continental, 209
East Indian, 141
working, 2

Skittle-pot, 25
for lemel, 104

Slitting-rollers, 112

Snarling-tools, 122

Soda, carbonate of, 16, 102

Soft solder, 90, 202
dissolving, 202
plating, 202

Solder, composition for, 81, 98
best hard, 81
common, 83, 85
common easy, 86
dish, 89
easy, 79, 82, 86
filed, 76
for aluminium, 206
for chains, 85
for filigree, 84, 91
hard, 77
Lemaille, 91
medium, 76, 82
pallion, 88
quick running, 85
very common, 87
with arsenic, 86
with copper and silver, 76
with zinc, 76

Soldering, art of, 74, 90
alloy, dissolving, 202
connections, 77
mode of, 88
fluid, 201
flux, 77

Solders containing tin, 75

Solders, drossy, 88
for enamelling, 84
melting of, 83
preparations of, 87
remarks on, 80
tin in, 49

Solid plain work, 127

Solution for battery, 151
cyanide, 156
for plating, 157, 158
for precipitation, 184
inferior, 159
No. 1, 163
No. 2, 164
No. 3, 164

Soundness of crucibles, 97

Spain, 11

Sparrow-hawk, 119

Special soldering flux, 92

Specific gravity of zinc, 47

Spelter, 46
used by jewellers, 47

Spinning, 134, 135

Sprouting, 29

Stamped work, 126

Stamping-press, 132

Standard alloy for hall-marking, 62
alloys of the highest quality, 62

Standards, English, 60
French, 70
German, 71

State in which silver is found, 14

State of silver trade, 128

State of the jewellery trade, 12

Stone, Water-of-Ayr, 136

Strength of solution, 152

Stripping silver, 201

Style of work, Austrian, 211
English, 211
French, 209

Style of work, German, 210
Indian, 210

Surface, refining of silver, 145

Swedish filigree, 56

System of assaying, 39


Table of cost of silver-rolling, 112
of metallic elements, 50
of various duties, 90

Tarnishing of silver, 7
of zinc, 47

Tax or licence, 196

Technical education, 2

Test for pure silver, 6

Testing crucible, 97
silver wares, 203

Testimony, Scriptural, 37, 38

Test-ring, 31

Tin, 48
alloyed with gold, 49
alloyed with silver, 49
ancient workers, 48
and Christianity, 48
density of, 48
dissolving, 48
ductility of, 49
fusibility of, 48
in solders, 49, 76
malleability of, 49
scientific name, 50
tenacity of, 49
vapours, 49

Tongs, draw, 115

Tongs for melting, 100

Total working loss, 176

Trade, silver, state of, 128
useful information for, 197

Treatment, economical, 1
in furnace, 18
of waste, 179

Treatment of waste liquids, 180

Twisting wires, 58


Unjustly assessed tax, 195

Uses of silver, 9
borax, 22
for imitation alloys, 173
of lathe, 58
silver, mechanical, 52


Vapours of tin, 49

Various qualities of silver, 52
duties, table of, 190
metals, mixing, 95

Varnish, resist, 1


Wares, ornamental, 4
law on, 73
removing gold from, 205
silver alloy for, 72
silver, 197
testing purity, 203

Washing-out mixture, 138

Waste, saving, 178
liquids, treatment of, 180
treatment of, 181
waters, 182-185
water, precipitation in, 184

Water-of-Ayr stone, 139

Weighing of silver assay, 30

Whitening, old method, 140
Indian mode of, 142
our mode of, 145
powder, 147

Wire for filigree, 59
rolling, 112
drawer’s drum, 115
drawer’s punch, &c., 117
drawing, fine, 117

Wires, conducting, 154

Withdrawal from cupel, 34

Work, Austrian style, 211
burnishing, 162
English, style, 211
filigree, 5, 40, 125
French duty on, 208
French style, 209
German style, 210
hollow, 131
Indian style, 210
silver, burnishing, 124
solid, 127
stamped, 132

Workers, Indian, 5

Working filigree, 56
loss, 175
material, bad, 98
silversmiths, 2
total, 176

Workmen, English and Foreign, 2

Workmanship, process of, 55

Wrought work, 118


Yield of silver, 11, 13


Zinc, 46
a fusible metal, 98
amalgamation, 153
annealing, 47
ductility of, 48
gravity of, 47
in silver solder, 46, 76
malleability of, 48
on floors, 178
tarnishing of, 47
tenacity of, 48