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See also: electroplating industry in See also: England, was See also: born in See also: Birmingham on the 17th of See also: October 18o1, the son of a spectacle manufacturer
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Apprenticed to his uncles, See also: silver platers in Birmingham, he became, on their See also: death, See also: sole proprietor of the business, but subsequently took his See also: cousin, See also: Henry Elkington, into partnership
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The science of
See also: electrometallurgy was then in its See also: infancy, but the Elkingtons were See also: quick to recognize its possibilities
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They had already taken out certain See also: patents for the application of See also: electricity to metals when, in 1840, See also: John
See also: Wright, a Birmingham surgeon, discovered the valuable properties of a solution of See also: cyanide of silver in cyanide of potassium for electroplating purposes
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The Elkingtons See also: purchased and patented Wright's See also: process, subsequently acquiring the rights of other processes and improvements
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Large new See also: works for electroplating and electrogilding were opened in Birmingham in 1841, and in the following See also: year Josiah See also: Mason became a partner in the See also: firm
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See also: George See also: Richards Elkington died on the 22nd of See also: September 1865, and Henry Elkington on the 26th of October 1852
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this is not a comment but a question so I may not get an answer. I recently purchased a silver mechanical pencil with the letters GRE embossed, the only GRE I could come up with is George Richards Elkington, who is famous as the pioneer of electroplating but there is no mention of him being a pencil maker, the pencil is obviously from the 1860s, anyone out there that could kindly shed any light on this, Kind Regards Les
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