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Home Dictionary Name: goldsmithGoldsmiths' Notes
Goldsmiths' Notes. Bankers' cash notes (i.e., promissory notes given by a banker to his customers as acknowledgements of the receipt of money) were originally called in London goldsmiths' notes, from the circumstance that all the banking business in England was originally transacted by goldsmiths....
Bankers' cash notes
Bankers' cash notes, formerly called goldsmiths' notes, because bankers were originally goldsmiths. Written promises given by bankers to their customers as acknowledgments of having received money for their use, payable to bearer on demand and considered as money, and transferable from one person to another by delivery. Now seldom if ever made, their use having been superseded by the introduction of cheques....
Standard gold bar
Standard gold bar, the definition of the term 'standard gold bar' under s. 2(u) does not contemplate the standard gold bar being cut into pieces. A standard gold bar being of a prescribed weight and purity cannot in many cases be handed over to a certified goldsmith without cutting the same. If a dealer, therefore, has to give a cut piece of standard gold bar to a certain goldsmith the remaining portion of the standard gold bar will be treated as primary gold in his hands, Hukumchand Ratanchand Banthia v. Union of India, AIR 1970 SC 1453 (1466): (1969) 2 SCC 166. [Gold Control Act, 1968, s. 3(u)]...
Countermark
A mark or token added to those already existing in order to afford security or proof as an additional or special mark put upon a package of goods belonging to several persons that it may not be opened except in the presence of all a mark added to that of an artificer of gold or silver work by the Goldsmiths Company of London to attest the standard quality of the gold or silver a mark added to an ancient coin or medal to show either its change of value or that it was taken from an enemy...
Cruset
A goldsmiths crucible or melting pot...
Folier
Goldsmiths foil...
Goldsmith
An artisan who manufactures vessels and ornaments etc of gold...
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...
Karob
The twenty fourth part of a grain a weight used by goldsmiths...
Quichuan
Designating or pertaining to a linguistic stock of South American Indians including the majority of the civilized tribes of the ancient Peruvian Empire with some wild tribes never subjugated by the Incas Most of these Indians are short but heavy and strong They are brachycephalic and of remarkably low cranial capacity Nevertheless they represent one of the highest of native American civilizations characterized by agricultural military and administrative skill rather than by science or literature although they were adept potters weavers and goldsmiths and preserved by the aid of the mnemonic quipu a body of legendary lore in part written down since the introduction of writing...
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