Paragraph is extracted from the America’s Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter On the assay from 1 December 1784 to 30 April 1890.
It was applied only after the manufacturer paid a tax There was a special mark of the profile of Queen Victoria, who Sterling silver, and a leopard’s head within a shield verified London as theĬity of assay. Left, with its right paw stretched outward) meant that the item was 92.5% pure Silversmiths had their own mark, as well. Various assayers had their own mark and various Various markingsĭesignated different procedures. Would then be submitted to an authorized assayer to be tested. The signed item wasįirst submitted to a silversmith, who would stamp the item. Silver or gold unless it was stamped with such a hallmark. Offense in Great Britain for almost 700 years to sell any item advertised as Instrument to certify its content of either silver or gold. The hallmark was a small stamping applied by an authorized assayer on any given ThisĬommission would verify (or not) the silver content of the item (Waterhouseĭuring the nineteenth century the procedure had remained very much the same. Sworn-in commission of the goldsmiths’ or trumpet-makers’ guild. The procedure then involved sending a silver item signed by the artist to a Territories of the Holy Roman Empire had been a practice since 1548 in Augsburg. Hallmarking of silver items in the German Manufacture, and an extensive bibliography.Ī remark must be made here with regard to the hallmark which appears on many "Maker’s Marks on Wind Instruments," a map of the centers of Text also includes a list of cited collections and libraries, a chapter on Inventions, patents, serial numbers, exhibitions, catalogues, and markings. InĪddition to each company’s history, many entries include company addresses,Ĭompany name changes, locations of instruments in collections, a bibliography,
The New Langwill Index is a monument of research and hasĮntries for c6400 different manufacturers with cross references. (Waterhouse 1993) and The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (Sadie,Įd. Langwill Index : A Dictionary of Wind-Instrument Makers and Inventors The primary resources used for this chapter of the document were The New Production has already been discussed in Chapter 1, so that an attempt is made Production of cornets is included when possible. Manufacturers of cornets in the nineteenth century. In this chapter, an attempt is made to include basic information about many
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