The American Watchmaker and Jeweler

Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Watchmaker and Jeweler: A Full and Comprehensive Exposition of All the Latest and Most Approved Secrets of the Trade, Embracing Watch and Clock Cleaning and Repairing, Tempering in All Its Grades, Making Tools, Compounding Metals, Soldering, Plating, Etc To make cleaning solution for brass To makeand apply solution for frosting silver articles. Polishing powder for gold articles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.