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[Herewith you will receive 3 Coffee Pots and a Cream Jug, but the time was so short that we could not get them finished, except the old one: it would have taken a day or two more to have stoned the ground properly. Also I send you a silver Lion Candlestick, by which you may convince any reasonable impartial person of the utility of our Machines (Stamps, Dies, &c.), as the pair weigh only 36 oz. whereas a pair made of cast silver as the Londoners would have made them, would weigh 216 oz: for example, those made for Lord Kerry weighed 108 oz. 12 dwt. per pair, and the Branches for two Candles only, weighed 35 oz., but those of the same pattern we made for Sir Robert Murray Keith were only 17 oz. 13 dwt., whereas a pair made in London would weigh 108 oz., and at 5/9 per oz. is £31. 1. 0 and fashion at 2/6 per oz. is £13. 10. 0, total £33-11-0. Our price would be 38 oz. at 5/9, £10-18-6 plus fashion at 3/3, £6-3-6, total £17-2-0. Also I send you a Sugar Dish stamped from the Vine pattern Die, as another instance of the quantity of work we are capable of despatching in the same time, which the Londoners cannot do, and rendering it so much lighter than theirs, by the use of our Dies and Machines: the Sugar Dish weighs 5 oz. 17 dwts. and with a glass lining may be sold for 62/-. We likewise send you some impressions from several of our Dies for Ormoulu or silver Borders or Ornaments, which may perhaps serve to strengthen your argument in favour of the use of Dies. Also herewith the Copper Plate of the Manufactory with Eginton’s remarks, viz. that our [Printing] Press has not power enough, therefore the plates cannot be properly printed here. Mr. Val Green will direct you to a proper man to print them, but do not let him see the Plate. If you can readily find a ¾ print of Voltaire and a good likeness it may be worth while to buy it as Eginton thinks a drawing from his model will be a bastard of the fourth or fifth generation. I have sent you a few common Tortoise-Boxes and Toothpicks by way of samples for prices. Our Button orders increase.] |