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Weighing the alloy constituents (gold, silver,
copper, platinum)
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2. |
Melting and casting the molten alloy into ingots
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3. |
Rolling the ingots down to a ribbon
‘thinness’ of 0.015 mm
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Rolling the ingots
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4. |
Cutting the rolled ribbon into 32 x 32 mm
squares
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5. |
Interleaving the squares in the first beating
mould (known in German as "Lot"= cutch)
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6. |
Beating the "Lot" mould with an
automatic machine down to a leaf thinness of 0.002 mm
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7. |
Quartering the gold sheets and interleaving them
in the second mould known in German as a "Form" = mould
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8. |
Beating the "Form" with an automatic
machine to produce a super-fine gold leaf no more than 0.00015 mm thin!
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9. |
Trimming the fine gold leaves and interleaving
them with tissue paper in books for sale
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Trimming the fine gold leaves
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