1913: The Scientific Side of the Assay Office at New York - Buying and Selling Silver and Gold
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I was just researching the unique gold U.S. Mint medal for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Expo and came across this interesting article by H.J. Slaker, employee of the Assay Office and at the Mint Exhibit.
It looks like H. J. Slaker may be Harrison Joseph Slaker of The Cove, Ossining, Westchester, New York (links in above thread).
This article is from the Scientific American in 1913:
Buying and Selling Silver and Gold: The Scientific Side of the Assay Office at New York
- https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/625056 (update)
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/buying-and-selling-silver-and-gold/
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/26020186
Update: images updated from NNP, originally from JSTOR.
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There is a whole string of numismatic content in Scientific American:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/publisherdetail/525611
That's awesome @Coinosaurus! Looks like there's a lot of content over many years.
How does NNP identify which articles to include? The article above by H. J. Slaker is in the August 23, 1913 edition of Scientific American, but the NNP doesn't seem to have 1913.
I believe this would be covered in-depth in Roger Burdette's From Mine To Mint (FMTM).
It does now
Agree, but it's also nice to read first-hand, period material. Here, in addition to the first-hand account in the article, the author H. J. Slaker appears to have been an U.S. Assay Office employee and worked at the U.S. Mint Exhibit at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Expo.
Wow! Fast and with very high resolution as well! That's insanely awesome!
Thanks!
@Zoins ... Thanks for another great period article. Very interesting. Cheers, RickO