| Title | Mint Machinery, 1807, 1842, 1851, 1856, 1858, 1859, 1863, 1865, 1866, 1870—1873, 1875, 1878, 1880, 1881, 1886, 1893 (47 items). |
| Description | 57. Mint Machinery. 1807, 1842, 1851, 1856, 1858, 1859, 1863, 1865, 1866, 1870-1873, 1875, 1878, 1880, 1881, 1886, 1893. 47 items.
Coining presses, laying-on apparatus, coin counting and sorting machines, moulds etc.
Calcutta Mint, India:
Plan and side view of milling machine, frame and pullies etc. - coloured drawing marked "duplicate" and reverse drawing marked "BM" [British Mint?], Nov. 1807.
General Drawings:
Laying on apparatus - coloured drawing, Aug. 1851 [?] (possibly made for an Indian mint).
Barclay & Rooke's Patent Coin Sorting Machine - 2 coloured drawings, Jul. 1866.
General arrangement of milling machine (System Jones'), Jun. 1886.
Machine for counting coin with feeding table attached, manufactured by James Watt & Co., not dated.
Portugese Mint:
Shears - 2 drawings, Aug. 1842.
William Baily & Sons:
Shears for coining press, Jul. 1856 (2 copies).
Calcutta New Mint, India:
Cutting out machine - coloured drawing marked "not adopted", Aug. 1858.
Sketch of laying-on lever for coining press, Apr. 1859.
Counting machine - coloured drawing marked "2 to this, Brown Shipley", Nov. 1865.
Lima Mint, Peru:
Transcript of contract between Don Frederico Pezet, Commissioner for the Governor of Peru and James Watt & Co., and specification of the mint machinery, Jun. 1863 (5 sheets).
Details of die dish and lever of coining press - tracing of drawing by C. Southwell, May 1870.
Main shaft for coining press, not dated.
Standard to carry outer end of main shaft for coining press - partially coloured drawing, Jul. 1871.
Details of bottom die dish, guides etc. - coloured drawing, Aug. 1871.
Plan of coining press - coloured drawing and coloured tracing, Mar. 1872.
Laying on shears for coining press - drawing, tracing and rough sketch, Apr. 1872.
Japan Mint:
Strip moulds - partially coloured reverse drawing, Apr. 1872.
Note of dimensions of cutting out press.
Siam Mint:
Strip moulds - coloured drawing, Sep. 1872.
Moulds for casting silver strips - partially coloured drawing, Jul. 1873.
Details of clamp etc. for silver pouring machine - coloured drawing, Jan. 1875.
Brown Shipley & Co.:
Filling table for coin counting machine - coloured drawing, May 1873.
Brass feeding tube for coin counting machine, Jun. 1873.
Lisbon Mint, Portugal:
Details of shear boxes - 4 drawings, Jul. 1875.
Details of shear legs, Jul. 1875.
Feeding gear for milling machine - partially coloured drawing, Sep. 1875.
R. R. Symon & Co., Culiacan, Mexico:
Memorandum "Mr. Symon's Coining Press", Nov. 1878 [see also Portfolio 6/76].
Zacatecas Mint, Mexico:
Steel shear slide for geared shears, Sep. 1880.
Bottom and holding down plates for punch beds, and take off plates for cutting out presses, Jan. 1881.
General arrangement of coining press - coloured drawing, not dated.
3 small sheets of pencil sketches and notes of various parts.
J. C. & W. Lord (Order No. 204):
Detail of lower die dish for lever coining press - partially coloured drawing, Mar. 1893.
Most of the drawings bear letter codes.
Miscellaneous Items:
Small pencil sketch of brass roller for a milling machine.
Memorandum "List of Mints for which machinery has been supplied."
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