gold-beating

Four principal operations constitute the art of gold beating.

I shall now describe some peculiarities of the French practice of gold beating.

In the city are canneries of vegetables and fruit, glass-works and a gold-beating establishment.

Even in the tombs at Beni-Hassan we find the process of gold-beating illustrated in full.

The ancient Romans were not ignorant of the process of gold-beating, although they did not carry it so far as we do.