Badcock, William. A New Touch-Stone for Gold and Silver Wares. Praeger 1970 Hardcover in DJ. Good/Good Octavo About 200 pp Facsimile reprint of the 1679 edition

"Directing All Buyers of Large Plate, Or Small Works, (as Silver Or Gold Hilts, Buckles, Watch-cases, Pins and Studs in Watch-cases, Money-boxes, Tobacco-boxes, Bells and Sockets for Corals, Buttons and Tags for Garments, Chirurgeons-instruments, Rings, Chains, Lockets, Or Other Goldsmiths Works) how to Know Whether They Buy Or Wear Such as are of the Lawful Standard-allay, Or Adulterated and Unlawful : and how to Recover Recompence Against the Offenders : and Also Discovering the Principal Matters of the Goldsmiths and Cutlers (and Material Things of All Other Manual) Trades : to which is Added, the Useful and Easie Tables of Mr. John Reynolds, of the Mint, (with a Key to the Same) Plainly Shewing how to Cast Up and Make All Sorts of Gold and Silver True Standard"