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Assay, [fr. exigere, Lat., to test] of weights and measures, examining weights and measures by clerks of markets, etc., Blount. Also the testing and proving of coins, metals, etc. By the (English) Gold and Silver Wares Act, 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. 22), s. 2, partly repealed by the (English) Forgery Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 27), it is felony to forge or counterfeit any assay mark. As to assay of foreign imported plate, see 46 & 47 Vict. c. 55, s. 10; 4 Edw. 7, c. 6; and 7 Edw. 7, c. 13, s. 5 see PLATE.Means a proof or trial, by chemical experiments, of the parity of metal, esp., gold and silver. An examination of weights and measures, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 111....
Assayer of the King
Assayer of the King, an officer of the Mint, who tried the silver; he was appointed by the Master of the Mint and the merchants who carried silver thither for exchange, Blount....
Plate
Plate, of gold and silver. The duties were repealed by the (English) Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1890, s. 10. The hall-marking of foreign plate is prescribed by ss. 59, 60 of the (English) Customs Act, 1842, as amended by the Hall-marking of Foreign Plate Act, 1904 (4 Edw. 7, c. 6), which directs that foreign plate when brought to be assayed and stamped, as it has to be by revenue law, must be marked so as to distinguish it as foreign, and that every person bringing it to an assay office, unless it be in charge of a revenue officer, must state in writing whether it was bought in England, Scotland, or Ireland, or was imported from foreign parts. Watch-cases imported from foreign parts before 1st June, 1907, are exempted from assay by the Assay of Imported Watch-Cases (Existing Stocks Exemption) Act, 1907. As to the meaning of 'plate' in ss. 2, 6 of the Plate (Offences) Act, 1738, and other statutes, see Faberge v. Goldsmiths' Co., (1911) 1 Ch 286. Gold watches which are jewelled and...
Docimology
A treatise on the art of testing as in assaying metals etc...
Hall mark
The official stamp of the Goldsmiths Company and other assay offices in the United Kingdom on gold and silver articles attesting their purity...
Hydrometallurgy
The art or process of assaying or reducing ores by means of liquid reagents...
Misassay
To assay or attempt improperly or unsuccessfully...
Sayman
One who assays...
Saymaster
A master of assay one who tries or proves...
Scorifier
One who or that which scorifies specifically a small flat bowl shaped cup used in the first heating in assaying to remove the earth and gangue and to concentrate the gold and silver in a lead button...
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