Economy-Crafts. Lettre Patentes du Roi, Portant... Lot 125

Economy-Crafts. Lettre Patentes du Roi, Portant liquidation a la somme de cent six mille livres pour les dix Offices d’Essayeurs, Controleurs & Marquers des ouvrages d’etain. 4to. 252x190 mm. Pages 4. Illustrated headpiece with Crown and Lilies of France. Good condition. First edition. The Paris offices of assayers, inspectors and markers of pewter works are suppressed, for two reasons: they have become harmful to the manufacture and trade of pewter and furthermore their exercise has become useless since these craftsmen have been reunited in the brotherhood of potters some pewter.