Workshop notes for jewelers and watchmakers : being a collection of the latest practical receipts on the manufacture and repairing of watches and clocks, and on the various processes entering into the manufacture and repairing of jewelry, as coloring, polishing, enameling, annealing, oxydizing, etc. ...
A practical trade manual by Charles Brassler, published in New York in 1899 by the Jewelers' Circular Publishing Company for jewelers and watchmakers, collecting receipts on watch and clock repair, jewelry finishing, enameling and annealing. The pictures are small black-and-white engraved ornaments such as scrolled panels and a central urn medallion, plus a diagram of a circular gear-like device with labeled points, offering a designer ready motifs for symmetrical borders, cartouches and mechanical line drawings.
