Birmingham Assay Office
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Birmingham, Birmingham, West Midlands, West Midlands, England
Sectors:
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Professional services
Technical services inc testing & analysis
Notes:
Established 1773 to provide local assaying and hallmarking of the work of local silversmiths. Lobbied for by, inter alia, Matthew Boulton. Continues
Publications:
- Assay Office at Birmingham by Westwood, Arthur H
- Birmingham Assay Office by Tann, Jennifer
- 'Birmingham Assay Office' in S Timmins (ed), Resources, Products and Industrial History of Birmingham and the Midland Hardware District. A series of reports collected by the Local Industries Committee of the British Association at Birmingham in 1865 by Ryland, Arthur
- Birmingham Gold and Silver, 1773-1973. An exhibition celebrating the bicentenary of the Assay Office ... 1973 by Wild, Glennys, et al
- Early records of Birmingham Assay Office by Priestley, Philip T, & Phyllis Benedikz
- Manufacturing reputations in late eighteenth century Birmingham by Stirk, Nigel
- 'Note on the Assay Office' in G A Auden (ed), Handbook for Birmingham and its Neighbourhood Prepared for the Meeting of the British Association by Westwood, Arthur H
- ''Real knowledge and occult misteries'. Matthew Boulton and the Birmingham Assay Office' in Malcolm Dick (ed), Matthew Boulton. A revolutionary player by Baggott, Sally
- Touching Gold and Silver. 500 years of hallmarks by Hare, Susan
Groups:
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Birmingham, Birmingham, West Midlands, West Midlands, England
Sectors:
- Professional services Technical services inc testing & analysis
Notes:
Established 1773 to provide local assaying and hallmarking of the work of local silversmiths. Lobbied for by, inter alia, Matthew Boulton. ContinuesPublications:
- Assay Office at Birmingham by Westwood, Arthur H
- Birmingham Assay Office by Tann, Jennifer
- 'Birmingham Assay Office' in S Timmins (ed), Resources, Products and Industrial History of Birmingham and the Midland Hardware District. A series of reports collected by the Local Industries Committee of the British Association at Birmingham in 1865 by Ryland, Arthur
- Birmingham Gold and Silver, 1773-1973. An exhibition celebrating the bicentenary of the Assay Office ... 1973 by Wild, Glennys, et al
- Early records of Birmingham Assay Office by Priestley, Philip T, & Phyllis Benedikz
- Manufacturing reputations in late eighteenth century Birmingham by Stirk, Nigel
- 'Note on the Assay Office' in G A Auden (ed), Handbook for Birmingham and its Neighbourhood Prepared for the Meeting of the British Association by Westwood, Arthur H
- ''Real knowledge and occult misteries'. Matthew Boulton and the Birmingham Assay Office' in Malcolm Dick (ed), Matthew Boulton. A revolutionary player by Baggott, Sally
- Touching Gold and Silver. 500 years of hallmarks by Hare, Susan