A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 278
that year a crown and the figures 18 wereauthorized for gold of 18 carats in place of the lion passant. Goldof 22 carats continued to be marked like silver until 1844, whena crown and the figures 22 were introduced instead of the lion.Assay towns other than London have all their separate marksand… … Fig. 171.—The Royal Gold Cup in its original form (sec next page). 236 GLOSSARY 1819) a tree, fish and bell; York has as its old mark a fleur-de-lysand leopards head crowned, both dimidiated and conjoined ona circular shield, as its new mark the city arms, and so on. France has been more…
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