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"text": "1703, Richard Neve (pseudonym T. N. Philomath), The City and Countrey Purchaser, and Builder’s Dictionary, London: J. Sprint et al., title page,\nThe Customs, and Methods of Measuring of all Artificers Work, concern’d in Building; together with the City and Countrey Prices, not only of Workmanship, but of Materials also: The which will be extraordinary useful in making of Bargains, or Contracts betwixt the Workmaster and Workman; and likewise in computing the Value (or Charge of Erecting) of any Fabrick, great or small."
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"ref": "1994, Augustin Krämer, The Samoa Islands: Material Culture, page 79",
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"text": "It was determined upon the day at Spires, on the ninth day of April, in the year, counting from God's birth, 1464 that the workmaster, JOST DOTZINGER, of Worms, workmaster of the high chapter at Strasburg, shall have an assembly of craftsmen in his district, when three or four masters shall be taken and chosen, to come together on a certain day, as they may agree, and what is there determined on by a majority of those who are so congregated in chapters, and who are then present, and how they may decrease or increase some articles, that shall be kept throughout the whole faternity.",
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"ref": "1989, Alexander Von Solodkoff, Christopher Forbes, Masterpieces from the House of Fabergé, page 155",
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"ref": "1980, Hermione Waterfield, Christopher Forbes, Peter Carl Fabergé, Fabergé imperial eggs and other fantasies, page 135",
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"ref": "2012, Anna M. Miller, Illustrated Guide to Jewelry Appraising: Antique, Period, and Modern",
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"ref": "2014, Gerald A. Browne, Hot Siberian",
"text": "A nephrite-and-diamond imperial presentation box bearing the monogram of Czar Nicholas II, made by Fabergé workmaster Henrik Wigstron, St. Petersburg, 1900.",
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