Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Year 1938
Date 16-Jun
Volume 78
Issue 1,936
Page 558
Category In the Glow of the Forge
Part
Title English Gold Leaf
Author "Phantom Pen"
Notes Gold leaf making in London, gold-beating and gold beaters, Works Manager Cecil Whiley, varieties of gold leaf, rolling a gold ribbon, cutch shoder and mould, a crucial stage of beating, booking gold leaves, leaves are not touched by hand, a very ancient industry, hand beating leaf gold, it is not a monotonous occupation, production by machine method, a connection with model engineering, cutting gold leaves to size, old vellum sheets, weights of gold beaters' hammers