Sheffield Assay Office
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Yorkshire & the Humber, England
Sectors:
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Professional services
Technical services inc testing & analysis
Notes:
Established 1773, along with Birmingham Assay Office, as a result of an act of Parliament enabling hallmaking of silver outside London. Early on most business was done within 20 miles of Sheffield. Continues in 2016 assaying products for customers worldwide
Publications:
- Sheffield Assay Office by Unknown
- Sheffield Assay Office Register. A copy of the register of the persons concerned in the manufacture of silver wares, and of the marks entered by them from 1773 to 1907 by Watson, Bernard W
- Sheffield Assay Office; with a few notes on the silver trade of the town by Watson, Arnold T
- Sheffield Silver, 1773-1973. An exhibition to mark the bicentenary of the Sheffield Assay Office by Unknown
- 'Silver trades and the Assay Office' in W S Porter (ed), British Association and Guide to Sheffield by Unknown
- Touching Gold and Silver. 500 years of hallmarks by Hare, Susan
Groups:
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Yorkshire & the Humber, England
Sectors:
- Professional services Technical services inc testing & analysis
Notes:
Established 1773, along with Birmingham Assay Office, as a result of an act of Parliament enabling hallmaking of silver outside London. Early on most business was done within 20 miles of Sheffield. Continues in 2016 assaying products for customers worldwidePublications:
- Sheffield Assay Office by Unknown
- Sheffield Assay Office Register. A copy of the register of the persons concerned in the manufacture of silver wares, and of the marks entered by them from 1773 to 1907 by Watson, Bernard W
- Sheffield Assay Office; with a few notes on the silver trade of the town by Watson, Arnold T
- Sheffield Silver, 1773-1973. An exhibition to mark the bicentenary of the Sheffield Assay Office by Unknown
- 'Silver trades and the Assay Office' in W S Porter (ed), British Association and Guide to Sheffield by Unknown
- Touching Gold and Silver. 500 years of hallmarks by Hare, Susan