THE METHOD OF MAKING CANDLESTICKS OF WHITE METAL PLATED WITH SILVER
Year: 1790

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, J, SAMUEL
ROBERTS the younger, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Silversmith and
Plater, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third hath
been graciously pleased, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great
Britain, bearing date the Fifteenth day of January, in the thirtieth year of
His said Majesty's reign, to give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Roberts,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said Samuel Roberts, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, and every of them by myself or themselves, or by
my and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the
said Samuel Roberts, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, should and lawfully might from time to time
and at all times hereafter during the term of years therein expressed, make,
use, exercise, and vend, within that part of Great Britain called England, the
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my new Invention of
"THE METHOD OF MAKING CANDLESTICKS OF WHITE METAL PLATED WITH SILVER,"
in such manner as to me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of
them, should in their discretion seem meet, and that I, the said Samuel hoberts,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and
enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time
coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention; to have,

page_text: hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, privileges, and advantages
therein granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Samuel Roberts,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end
and term of fourteen years from the date of the said' Letters Patent, next and
immediately ensuing, and fully to be complete and ended, according to the
Statute in such case made and provided: And whereas in the said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso that I, the said Samuel Roberts, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery
within one calendar month next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent, otherwise the same Letters Patent were to be void, as in and
by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and
at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in obedience to the said Letters Patent, and the
provisoe therein contained, I, the said Samuel Roberts, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be
performed or exercised, that is to say:-
First, the Invention consists in the use and application of any white metal
whatever, plated or covered with silver, to the purpose of making candle-
.sticks.
Secondly, the manner in which this Invention is exercised or performed is
as follows (viz.) Dies being prepared of iron or steel cut to the form and
pattern of each particular part of the candlestick, the white metal, whether
consisting of tin, lead, bismuth, cobalt, regulus, arsenick, zinc, calamine, iron,
or steel, or any composition or mixture of any of the before-mentioned articles,
either with or without copper or brass, or any other simple or compound white
metal, being plated or covered with silver in a flat piece, and rolled or flatted
to the proposed thickness of the candlestick, must be cut into pieces of the size
and shape of each die, and each piece stamped in the die for which it is cut out,
in order to give it the form and pattern, except there be parts of the candlestick
where the work in the die is too deep for the plated metal to bear stamping
into without injury to the silver, in which case the silver must be stampt in
the die before it is plated on the white metal, and then moulded in sand, and
the white metal melted and cast or poured upon it. In case iron or steel is the
metal plated upon, it will be necessary to stamp the plated metal when red
hot, in any other case it may be stampt cold. Each part having thus received
the impression of the die must have the superfluous edges cut off, and then,
with a file, cach piece must be levelled on the edge, till it perfectly matches

page_text: with or fits the part to which it is to be joined. The different parts must then
be bound together with wire, and each seam or joining soldered either with
silver or tin solder. All the different parts of the candlestick being thus joined
and soldered together, the candlestick must be cleaned off, which may be done
by boiling it, if plated on iron or steel, in spirits of vitriol and water; if on
any of the other white metals, in pearl ashes and water; and then each
seam or joining must be repaired with a file or burnisher; it is then ready
to receive the polish, which may be given either with brushes or with
burnishers, in the manner used with respect to candlesticks plated on
copper.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Second
day of February, in the thirtieth year of the reign of our Sovereign
Lord George the Third, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain,
France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the
year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety.
SAMUEL (L.S.) ROBERTS, JUNE.
Signed, sealed and delivered by the within-
named Samuel Roberts the younger,
the presence of us,
younger, in
GEO* CADMAN.
W. HOYLE.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Second day of February, in the
year above written, the aforesaid Samuel Roberts the younger came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
And also
and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written.
the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the Statute in
that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Tenth day of February, in the year above mentioned.