4,000 Year Old Industry Continues in London. Industry of gold-beating which was carried on in the time of ancient Egypt of 4,000 years ago, is still to be seen in London, the only change being that the hammers employed are now of iron and not of bronze. A skilled workman can produce a leaf of the thickness of 1/250,000 part of an inch, or a hundred time thinners than a cigarette paper. In one gold-beating workshop in Bloomsbury, may be seen workmen of ages ranging form 20 to 70 years, who daily weald their 20 lb. iron headed hammers, in the gold-beating industry. Girls are employed in the making of gold-leaf books. O.P.S. Some of the beaters of all ages photographed at their Bloomsbury workshop.

Keystone View Company · [ca. October 1927]

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