A touch-stone for gold and silver wares. Or, a manual for goldsmiths, and all other persons, whether buyers, sellers, or wearers of any manner of goldsmiths work... Together with the several statutes now in force for regulating abuses committed in that craft. And the Charter of the Goldsmiths Incorporation taken from the Record and truly rendred into English. To which is annexed the laws in force against brass hilts, and brass buckles, etc. And directions for discovering the counterfeit coyn of this kingdom. And also a catalogue of the forraign coyns, with the particular weights, allay, and value of each coyn
A 1677 London manual for goldsmiths and their customers, written by W. B. (William Badcock) and printed for booksellers John Bellinger and Thomas Bassett, explaining how to judge gold and silver wares, assay marks, and counterfeit coin. The pictures include assay-mark and type ornaments, a decorative vase border, and a frontispiece of a goldsmith's workshop with tools, a furnace, and craftsmen at work, which a designer might use for crafts-trade or early modern workshop imagery.
