![]() ![]() Two Germans, Jacob Monima and Daniel Demitreus, established a brass works in 1649 at Esher, Surrey, with an outlay of some £6000, but this had gone out of business before the turn of the eighteenth century. The first was to the Mines Royal Company for the mining and smelting of copper, and the second gave the Mineral and Battery Works the sole right to mine calamine and manufacture brass Schultz was a Saxon zinc miner and, in 1568, two monopolies were granted concerning the brass trade. He was described as a man “… of great cunnynge in ye mixed metal called latten or brass … and working ye same into all sortes of batterye wares, cast work and wyre”. ![]() These were sometimes referred to as “Flemish ware”.ĭuring the reign of Elizabeth I a patent was granted to Christopher Schutz for the exclusive right of getting the calamine stone and working brass. The latter was used to provide power to hammer the sheet brass into the finished items. The medieval industry developed there because of the availability of the two main resources for the manufacture of brass – calamine reserves and water. The earliest examples of brass to be found in England are monumental brasses dating from the fourteenth century – such as can be seen in Westminster Abbey, but these were made from brass imported from Flanders or Germany. From The Book of Trades, or Library of the Useful Arts, part III, third edition (London, Tabart and Co, 1805).īrass-making was known in Roman times where experiments took place to produce brass by heating calamine (zinc ore) and copper together. 17th century wills show that kitchen utensils were important items manufactured from brass during the early history of the industry. He made kettles, pails, candlesticks and kitchen utensils in brass. Caption: The brazier was one of the specialised workers in the brass trade. ![]()
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