Goldsmith's shears
LXII. He beareth a pair of Gold-smiths
Shears. These are to cut Wyer, and other
Irregularities in the Hammering of Silver or Gold Plate.
Plyers
LXIII. He beareth a pair of Plyers.
These are termed round Plyers; for of these there
are several kinds, as found and flat pointed.
Scales
LXIV. He beareth a pair of Scales or
Ballance.
Related text(s) Scales parts
Crucibles
He beareth two Crucibles, and a
Graver.
Crucibles are a kind of Earthen
Pots, made of a Whitish Clay or Soil that will abide
Fire and much heat; in them Gold-smiths melt their
Silver and Gold' Brasiers their Metals.
Graver
Graver
LXVI. He beareth an half round Graver,
and a pair of Holding Tongs.
There are two principal sorts of Gravers,
besides the larger sort, called Scalpers.
The one is the long Graver, which is streight and
long, used for the Graving of any flat thing, as Plate.
The other is the short Graver, which turneth up
somewhat at the end, whose use is to Engrave Letters
and Escochions in Seals, of Plate or other Metal.
The Scalper is a kind of Graver with a flat point; its use is to take away, and clear the bottoms of broad Letters or Escochions sunk in the Metal, which the sharp pointed Graver cannot do. Now of them there are these sorts, the flat pointed Scalper; the half round Scalper, and the round Scalper. All the Gravers and Scalpers have round Knobs at the end of the Haft, which the Artist calls the Pummell of the Haft or Handle.
Holding tongs
The Holding Tongs are generally used to hold
any piece of Plate, or other Metal, while the Workman beateth it out on the Anvil, when it is hot.
Hand vice
LXVII. He beareth a Wooden Hand-Vice,
And a Borax Box.
For the use of the Hand-Vice,
see numb.32. 39. together with the several forms and fashions of them; of which I shall say no more.
Borax box
The Borax Box; of some termed a Borace
Box; but more vulgarly a Burras Box, is a Brass
or Copper Box with a Pipe in the side, in which bruised
Borax is put, to scratch it by little and little out of
the Knobbed Pipe, on the place intended to be Soddered.
Stone burnisher
LXVIII. He beareth a Stone Burnisher;
and a Gold-smiths
Sparrow Hawk. The first is to polish and
make bright any piece of Silver or Gold.
Goldsmith's sparrow hawk
The latter is
of some called a Beak Iron, others a Sparrow
Hawk, having a Beak on each side, and a kind of
Tang at the bottom of it to be fixed upon a Block or
Bench that hath a Hole in it. Mr Morgan calls these
Anvils, but rather termed the Gold-smith or Brasiers
Anvile.
Steel burnisher
LXIX. He beareth a Steel Burnisher, ...
Beakett
... and a Beakett or Anvile with
a square face, and double Triangular Bilied.
Beak iron
LXX. He beareth a Beak iron with a flat
bottom, set upon an Octagon (or eight cornered) Trencher.
Spoon anvil
LXXI. He beareth a Spoon Anvil.
This is a kinde of hollow, or half round Anvil in the
face; on which Mettle men work ony thing half round
and hollow; both Concave and Convex, as Ladles &
Spoons with such like.
Swage
LXXII. He beareth a Swage.
In the face of this kinde of Anvil are smal halfe round nicks, which are
termed Swages, and they are of severall widnesses, according as the
workman will have the Ring to be.
Bowl anvil
LXIII. He beareth a Bowl Anvil, ...
Troy weights
... between a Pile of Weights, and the Case of them.
This is termed a
Goldsmiths Pile, being Troy weights, and gradually set
one within the other, as Merchants smal weights are set
one upon another Pyramid wise.
Weights case
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