| Description | Includes: - a brochure relating to The Mint, Birmingham, Ltd, giving brief details of company and tables of weights and specifications for rolled metals, copper tubes and wire gauge. No date [post-1919] - typed note of information obtained from the 'Boulton & Watt Collection' Birmingham Reference Library 're. Matthew F.R.S. (1728-1809)' by 'A.W.T.' April 1947, with attached newspaper cutting titled 'Making Money in Birmingham' - Typed note: 'Coins struck at the Royal Mint only 1945-1949', No date - Typescript: 'Notes on the various operations connected with the Coinage of Gold', March 1903
Newspaper cuttings: - Full page article from the Birmingham Weekly Post' titled 'Many-sided Activities of Birmingham's Mint, 4 May 1951 - Article from 'The Moneymakers, The Birmingham Post', 15 September 1967 - The Birmingham Post 'Midland Magazine' with the headline and article 'How the five Ralph Heaton's made money by the ton', 8 July 1967 - Article from 'The Birmingham Post' with the headline 'New tube drawbench to speed output', 12 May 1949 [equipment demonstrated at the Birmingham Mint] - Article in 'The Birmingham Post' with the headline 'Lord Mayor visits Birmingham Mint', 5 June 1947 - A copy of the 'Illustrated Times' which includes illustrations of Ralph Heaton's Mint, 10 May 1862
Journal articles: - Copy of 'The Metal Industry: A Journal for the Non-Ferrous Metal Trades', including 'A short account of the Birmingham Brass Trade', June 1910 - Photocopy of an article: 'Industrial Birmingham – Its Origins, Its Developments and Its Achievements' from The Birmingham Chamber of Commerce Journal, September 1953 - An article on 'Messrs. Ralph Heaton & Sons, Birmingham' reprinted from the 'Royal Album of Arts and Industries' (Fragile) - Article 'The Mint Birmingham Limited' by D.J. Rogers' including descriptions of the Casting and Hot Rolling departments and tube manufacture. Reprinted from 'Metal Industry', 19 September 1958 - Article 'The Mint, Birmingham, Brass and Copper Strip and Tube' by N.H. Moseley reprinted from 'Metal Industry', 13 May 1949 - Article from 'The Numismatic Circular' titled 'A bit of Bakshish with the brass', by J.H. Walker, Sultanate of Oman, April 1981 - A three part article 'Records of The Birmingham Mint Limited' by Antony Gunstone, from 'Spink's Numismatic Circular' December 1977, February 1978 and October 1978 - An article from 'Edgbastonia' December 1886 on Mr. Ralph Heaton J.P [1827 - 1891] - An article from 'World Coin News' with the headline 'Collector finds varieties of Bulgaria 1 and 2 Levs' by Bruce W. Smith (coins bearing the 'H' mintmark' for Ralph Heaton and Sons), 1 February 1977 - An article from 'Coin World' on Russian coin including coins struck by the Birmingham Mint between 1896 and 1899, 28 May 1980 - An article from 'The Numismatic Circular' with the title 'The 1/4 Anna Coins of Muscat and Oman A.H. 1312 - 1316' by P.H. Vernon, May 1977 - An article from 'Coin World International' titled 'Many Mints struck coins for use in modern Egypt' by Samuel Lachman Haifa, 31 August 1977 - An article 'Matthew Boulton and the Soho Mint' by F. Marcus Arman - An article in Dutch with english translation titled 'New Coins' concerning South African coins, from 'de Muntkoerier' January 1975 - An extract from L. Forrer's 'Biographical Dictionary of Medallists' 1904 Vol. 2 showing an entry relating to Ralph Heaton and Sons. - 'Birmingham Coinage' by Ralph Heaton - a chapter from 'Industrial History of Birmingham and the Midland Hardware District' (ed. Timmins), 1866 |