Testing articles made of precious metals and stamping them with hallmarks to indicate they are of a minimum standard of purity has been carried out by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths for seven centuries. The minute books of the Company, the core of the present study, provide an almost unbroken record since the 1330s, and names prominent in the Company's affairs include Isaac Newton, Charles II, Paul de Lamerie, the Vyners and the Garrards.
- ISBN10 0906290260
- ISBN13 9780906290262
- Publish Date 6 May 1999
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 13 October 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Unicorn Publishing Group
- Imprint Unicorn Press Ltd
- Edition Main
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English