Hall marks on gold & silver plate

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HALL MARKS ON PLATE.
Small or Slight Ornaments, put to Am- Salt Shovels,
ber or other Eggs or Urns. Salt Ladles.
Wrought Seals, or Seals with Cornelian Tea Spoons.
or other Stones set therein. Tea Strainers.
Watch Rings. Caddy Ladles.
Watch Keys. Buckles (Shirt Buckles or Brooches be-
Watch Hooks. fore mentioned excepted).
Ear Rings. Pieces to Garnish Cabinets or Knife
Necklaces.
Cases, or Tea Chests, or Bridles, or
Eyeglasses. Stands or Frames,
Spectacles.
Shirt Pins.
Shirt Studs. y ote. AW these W^ares printed in
, TT^^^f^ italics are excepted out of the
Head Ornaments.
exemp-
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Waist Buckles. Marked
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facture of Gold or Silver, so richly Eny^^
Assayed and Marked are chargegraved,
Carved, or Chased, or set with
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Jewels or other Stones, as not to admit ,,
of any Assay being taken of, or a Mark ceptea).
to be struck thereon, without damag- Gold A\ares, not required to be As-
ing, prejudicing, or defacing the same, sayed and Marked, may, nevertheless,
Things Avhich, by reason of their be Assayed and Marked, and are not
smallness or thinness, are not capable thereby liable to the Duty, but this
of receiving the Marks, and not weigh- does not extend to Silver Wares,
ing ten pennyweights each.
Notwithstanding- that in this Act of George II a penalty of
;^io for every offence against any infraction relating to the stan-
dards and the proper marking of wares, it does not altogether in-
be inflicted under the ancient Acts
validate the penalties which may
here recited which were not actually repealed, and since the passing
of this Act prisoners have been sentenced to imprisonment and fine
under the old Acts of Parliament for making silver plate worse than
standard.
In 1 74 1, the Court of Assistants of the Goldsmiths' Company
received a petition from Drew Drury, who stated that he had in-
advertently been concerned in causing a stamp to be made resembling
the "Lion Passant," and thereby incurred the displeasure of
the Company, and the penalty of 100, but that he had never made
any use of the stamp, had caused the same to be broken, and that,
being sensible of his guilt, he was willing to pay any penalty imposed
on him, with the charges incurred. The petition was, however,
rejected, and the Clerk was ordered to proceed against the petitioner.
The Wardens of the Company, on December 3, 1741, caused
all the new plate belonging to the Company to be weighed, and
full particulars of both old and new plate are entered in the inventory
of that date. The total weight of the old and new gilt and
white plate amounted to 3,134 ounces.*
* Memorials of the Goldsmiths' Company.