| 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 |