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Lapping - The process of bevelling gold joints
PHOTOGRAPHS
photograph (b+w)
Frank Butterworth Ltd
Europe: United Kingdom, England, Warwickshire, Birmingham
1920s-1930s
photographic paper; cardboard
overall: 111 mm x 166 mm

Black and white photographic print of a gold spectacle frame maker in the gold frame workshop at Frank Butterworth Ltd, Graham Street, Birmingham, showing the lapping process at a belt-driven wheel. White border. Mounted on stiff cardboard. Typewritten caption pasted over upper front surface of print.


2021.281

Gift of Mr Colin Butterworth, 2021



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