JEWELLERS. CHAP. XXVI. 



far as can be done without disclosing the names 

 of individuals or manufacturing firms, or without 

 communicating the extent of the dealings of each 

 respectively. The conclusion to which we have 

 come is that in the jewellery manufacture of Eng- 

 land, including London, Birmingham, and the 

 other places where gold is used, the consumption 

 of standard gold is four times as much as the 

 weight of that which is used in that manufacture in 

 pure gold as sold to the jewellers by the refiners. 

 We would then state the actual conversion or 

 application of gold in Great Britain to be 



Fine gold used by 

 gilders of the several 

 kinds, and by platers, 88,000 ounces ; 

 By jewellers of all 

 kinds, . . . 58,000 



146,000 at 41. 7s. 6d. 638,750 



Standard gold used 

 by jewellers, . . 232,000 317 10 902,27000 



Gold watches, viz. in Lon- 

 don annually 13,820*, in 

 Birmingham 600, in all the 

 other places about 300; in 

 the whole 14,720 watches, 

 which average two ounces 

 each, being 29,440 ounces, 

 which, being only of 18 carats, 

 may be valued at 3/. 5*. per 

 ounce, . ' ~ . 350 95,680 



.1,636,700 

 1 See Appendix, No. 16. 



