Directions on Melting[94]
Weighing Metal for the Crucible[94]
Crucibles[95]
Best Crucibles to employ[95]
Fluxes: their Action on Crucibles[96]
Fluxes employed in Melting[96]
Testing the Soundness of a Crucible[97]
Mixing various Metals for melting[97]
Zinc a fusible Metal[98]
Charcoal[99]
Bad working Material[99]
Plumbago Crucible for Melting[99]
Tongs for Melting[100]
Ingot-mould[100]
Flux and the Pouring of Molten Metal[101]
Protoxide of Zinc[102]
Scrap Silver[102]
Carbonate of Soda[102]
Dissolving Impurities[103]
Lead and Tin in Silver[103]
Sal-ammoniac[103]
Lemel[103]
Mixture prepared for Crucible[104]
Burning of Lemel[104]
Skittle-pot for Lemel[104]
Melting of Lemel[105]
Another Mode of melting Lemel[106]
Crucible for Lemel[106]
Pouring of Lemel from Crucible[107]

CHAPTER IX.

On the Working of Silver.

Rolling Silver[108]
Annealing Silver[109]
Irregularities in Rolling-mills[110]
Messrs Kemp’s Mill[110], [111]
Table of the Cost of Silver-rolling[112]
Slitting Rollers[112]
Breaking-down Rollers[112]
Wire-rolling[113]
Wire-drawing[113]
Draw-plate[114]
Draw-bench[110], [115]
Draw-tongs[115]
Drum used by Wire-drawers[115]
Fine Wire-drawing[115], [116]
Wire-drawer’s Punch and Hammer[117]
Wrought Work[118]
Sparrow-hawk[119]
Raised Work[120]
Cement for Chasers[121]
Snarling-tools for Raising[122]
Art in the Silver Trade[123]
Burnished Silver Work[124]
Silver Filigree Work[125]
Stamped or Struck-up Work[126]
Press[127]
Plain Solid Work[127]
Chain Bracelets[128]
Present State of Silver Trade[128]
Silver, Liability to become tarnished[129]
Enamelling[129]
Galvanic Ring[129]
Mode of preparing Ring[129], [130]
Hollow Silver Work[131]
Stamping-press[132]
Spinning[134], [135]
Polishing[135]
Water-of-Ayr Stone[136]
Polishing-lathe[137]
Washing-out Mixture[138]

CHAPTER X.

Enriching the Surfaces of Silver.

Production of the best and richest Surface[139]
Oldest Method for Whitening[140]
East Indian Silversmiths[141]
Indian Mode of Whitening Silver[142]
Another Mode of Whitening[142]
Boiling-out Pan[143]
Boiling-out Mixture[143], [144]
Our Mode of Whitening[145]
Surface Refining of Silver[146]
Brown Colour on Silver Goods[146]
Common Articles of Silver[147]
Whitening Powder or Mixtures[147]
Nitrate of Silver Mixture[148]
Improving the Colour of Electro-plate[149]
Electro-plating[149]
Discoverer of Electro-plating[149], [150]
Constant Battery[150]
Best Battery for Plating[151]
Strength of Battery Solution[151]
Bunsen’s Battery[152]
Exciting Mixture for Battery[152]
Zinc Amalgamation[153]
Conducting Wires[154]
Preparation of Plating Solution[155]
Cyanide Solution[156]
Black Cyanide[157]
Strength of Plating Solution[157], [158]
Inferior Plating Solution[159]
Recovery of Silver from Plating Solutions[160]
Scratch-brushing[161]
Scratch-brush Lathe[161]
Burnishing Silver Work[161], [162]
Oxidizing Silver Work[163]
Solution No 1.[163]
Solution No 2.[164]
Solution No 3.[164]
Producing various Shades[165]

CHAPTER XI.

Imitation Silver Alloys.

Melting Imitation Alloys[166]
Common Silver Alloy[167]
Another[167]
Another[168]
Another[168]
Another[168]
Another[168]
Another[169]
Another[169]
Another[169]
Another[169]
Another[170]
Another[170]
Chinese Silver[170]
Imitation Silver[170]
Another[171]
Another[171]
Another[171]
Another[171]
White Alloy[172]
Clark’s Patent Alloy[172]
White Alloy[172]
Alloy with Platinum[172]
Alloy with Palladium[173]
Uses for Imitation Alloys[173]
Characteristics of Imitation Alloys[174]