Gowland, William, 1842-1922, Japan Society of London · [London? : s.n.] · leaf 34
in water. It was never cast in ornamental forms,but always in small cakes or bars, which were fashioned solelywith the hammer and chisel. When bars of debased silver—i.e. silver containing largequantities of copper—were cast (a practice which unfortunatelywas not seldom followed in the old Mints,… … Fig. 8.—Furnace and Moulds used in Melting and Casting Silver. the reason for this being that the alloy contained so muchcopper that if cast in the ordinary way the bars would becoated with a black layer of copper oxide, which was difficultto remove. By placing the moulds under water this…
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