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Plate Licence

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This is an extract from James Ede's (Grimwade 1278) "The Gold & Silver-smiths' calculator" published in 1805:

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PLATE LICENCE

Every person trading in, vending, or selling any gold or silver plate, or any goods, in which any quantity of gold, exceeding two pennyweights, and under two ounces in weight, or any quantity of silver, exceeding five pennyweights, and under thirty ounces in weight, in one distinct ware is manufactured 2l. 6s.

Every person trading in, vending, or selling, any gold or silver plate, or any goods in which any quantity of gold, of the weight of two ounces or upwards, or any quantity of silver of the weight of thirty ounces or upwards, in one distinct ware, is manufactured; and every pawnbroker trading in, vending, or selling, gold or silver plate, or goods, or wares, in which any quantity of gold or silver is manufactured, or taking in, or delivering out, pawn of such plate goods or wares, and every refiner 5l. 15s.

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Hi,

Replacement photograph, following the demise of Freeshare.

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