On the Manufacture of Tin-plate. 371 
A List of the Current Wholesale Prices of Tin-Plate 
in September 1817, in London. 
4 Prices per |No. in each 
Sorts Weights Box Box 
: Ib. Ib. s. 
| oT ST ae a Si 112 to Ilo 4] 
eer OE Ot] WOs sO 106 39 
iC © alte Beant 98 ... 101 37 225 
PRMEING Ns cscscacccees TAQ os, wae 49 
PONY PERE ile. 160 ... 163 55 
SE ee ee a eee 
ae ho A A ain nae | SRY 
Balla ity dose dai 126 .. 129] 45 br 
I haa a ics 1470...) 150 Look 
2.0. || 168... 171| 57 
CB Sas chicos 167... 170| 63 
oo Saoinppebeaares 188... 191} 69 200 
MO 28 20) 209... 212| 75 
Wasters Cl......... ell? So aah 35 99 
Sco phe i 140... 143! 43 i 5 
Having given so detailed an account of 
the manufacture of tin-plate, it may be ex- 
pected that I should say a few words on the 
origin of the art. 
Formerly none of the English workers in 
iron or tin had any knowledge whatever of 
the methods by which this useful article could 
be produced ; our ancestors, from time imme- 
morial, having supplied themselves with it 
from Bohemia and Saxony. The establish- 
ment of this manufacture in those districts, 
was doubtless owing to their vicinity to the 
tin mines in the circle of Ersgebirg, which, 
