A METHOD OF STAMPING UPON PLATED METAL, GILT, AND OTHER METALS, ALL SORTS OP HAT AND CLOAK PINS, AND ALL KINDS OF FIGURES, DECORATIONS, ORNAMENTS, AND OTHER DEVICES FOR CABINET FURNITURE AND LOCK FURNITURE, AND INTERMIXING DIVERS COLOURS IN THE SAME
Year: 1777

page_text: MARSTON & BELLAMY'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
MARSTON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Brass Founder, and
SAMUEL BELLAMY, of Birmingham aforesaid, Engraver and Die Sinker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the First day of August, in the seventeenth year of His
reign, did give and grant unto us, the said John Marston and Samuel
Bellamy, His especial licence, that we, the said John Marston and Samuel
Bellamy, during the term of years therein expressed, should and might make,
use, exercise, and vend our Invention of "A METHOD OF STAMPING UPON
PLATED METAL, GILT, AND OTHER METALS, ALL SORTS OP HAT AND CLOAK PINS, AND
ALL KINDS OF FIGURES, DECORATIONS, ORNAMENTS, AND OTHER DEVICES FOR CABINET
FURNITURE AND LOCK FURNITURE, AND INTERMIXING DIVERS COLOURS IN THE SAME;"
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a provisoe obliging us, the said
John Marston and Samuel Bellamy, under our hands and seals, to cause a
particular description of the nature of the said Invention, and how the same
is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within four calendar months after the date of the said recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more
fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
John Marston and Samuel Bellamy, do hereby declare that our said Method
of Stamping upon Plated Metal, Gilt, and other Metals, Hat and Cloak Pins,
and all Kinds of Figures, Decorations, Ornaments, and other Devices for
Cabinet Furniture and Lock Furniture, and intermixing divers Colours in the
same, is to be performed in the manner following (that is to say):-
Sink, grind, and polish a die for either hat or cloak pins, or any figure,
decoration, or ornament for cabinet or lock furniture, and take a bar of copper

page_text: or other metal and plate silver thereon, and roll out the same between a pair
of rollers till it becomes thin, and then cut the same into such sizes as the
design requires; and when so cut, first neal them, then boil them in allum
and water, and afterwards burnish them. Or take a bar of copper or other
metal, and roll out the same thin, and then cut it into such sizes as the design
requires, and neal, gild, and burnish them. Or take a bar of copper or other
metal, and roll out the same thin, and then cut it as above, and neal and
burnish them. And when such plated metal, gilt metal, and metal not guilt,
is cut and prepared as above, stamp or press the same into the die, and with a
compostion of bar tin, grain tin, regulus, and lead, melted down together, fill
up the hollow, first anointing the hollow with sal ammoniack and water; or a
thin plate of copper, brass, iron, tin, or other metal, of the size of the hollow,
may be put in, and the outside metal turned over such plate; but before the
hollow of the hat and cloak pins are filled up, a shank nail or screw must be
placed in the middle of such hollow and the above composition poured in, which
solders the shank nail or screw to the pin; or, in case a plate is put in tho
hollow, the shank nail or screw should be bored up to the head through
the middle of the plate before such plate is put in the hollow; and such shank
nail or screw may be soldered to the plate with the above composition, or Bath
metal, to preserve the colour of the plated metal. After the pin, figure,
decoration, or ornament is made, it should be made hot, and spirits of wine and
gum sandarak, mixed together, should to put on them with a soft brush; and
those not plated nor gilt may be coloured with a lacker, made of spirits of
wine, seed lake, and ornatto, mixed together, and put on with a soft brush.
To intermix divers colours, either in the stamping or afterwards, press out
some part or parts of the pin, figure, decoration, or ornament, and put a foil of
any colour or colours under it, and then fill it up, or turn it over as before;
or paint, of any colour or colours, may be laid on with a hair pencil.
In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals, the
Twenty-ninth day of October, One thousand seven hundred and
seventy-seven.
Sealed and delivered (the several era-
sures and interlineation within ap-
pearing having been first made, and
these Presents first duly stampt) in
JNO MARSTON. (L.S.)
SAM BELLAMY. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-ninth day of October,
in the year of our Lord 1777, the aforesaid Samuel Bellamy came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to
the tenor of the Statutes made in the sixth year of the reign of the late
King and Queen William and Mary of England, and so forth, and in the
seventeenth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Eleventh day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven.