| SilverMine |
System requirements |
Download Instructions |
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The information and graphics on this site are taken from SilverMine.
Åntidata is pleased to offer the original SilverMine© program
to our visitors. SilverMine is a standalone hypertext book (©Åntidata
1996/7/8/9/2000) Standalone means that the program is completely self-contained
with it's own integral browser. 
The
program is extremely easy to set up and use as a left mouse click takes you
"through" a hypertext link and a single right mouse click brings you back.
Once you have mastered this, hypertext navigation becomes very easy, even
in a document as large as SilverMine as there are on-screen buttons to take
you to anywhere you wish to go.SilverMine was started in 1995 as an aid in
the identification and study of the marks on silver. In the intervening time,
the project has grown to over 2500 pages with 8000 hypertext links and 650
separate graphics depicting thousands of individual marks. SilverMine also
contains many biographical notes for the more important makers, a glossary
of terms connected with the silver trade, brief details of over 500 American
makers marks,a bibliography, a full text search system, a notepad, print options
, on-line help and user defined colours. The document covers the Assay Offices
of
- London,
- Edinburgh
- Birmingham
- Sheffield
- Chester
- Exeter
- Glasgow
- Newcastle
- Norwich
- York
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All the main Assay towns are covered in detail with historical data, detailed text and graphics lists of date letter sequences and makers marks. Where the graphical representation of a makers mark is not available, there is a detailed description.
The Date Letter Finder
This was the original "core" of Silvermine. The user is presented with
either an uppercase or lowercase alphabet in each of the Assay towns.
Click on the date letter of your silver item and SilverMine returns the
dates relevant to that letter. This makes the dating of quantities of
silver (such as "job lots" from auction) very quick for the collector
or dealer.
The program is is in a self extracting
"zip" file. Download this file (silvermine.exe file size = 1.8Mb)
to a directory or folder of your choice (C:\Silver..?) and run it. It will
then decompress itself to two files: HALLMARK.EXE and GRAPHICS.EXE. Click
on these in turn to run them and they will extract themselves to around 6MB.
You may then delete (or archive) silvermine.exe, hallmark.exe and graphics.exe
to make more room on your hard drive To run the program run the file: silver.exe
The PKZIP utility it is available for download from: http://www.pkware.com/
| DOS 3.1 or better (Win 3.x /95/98) |
| 540k free memory |
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VGA or better |
| 6.0Mb (approx) free disk space |
| Mouse |
