Meaning of Hardwares | Babel Free

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Pluriel de hardware.

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“That it is one and two thirds per cent. upon all ſorts of leather, ſkins, and wax from the Levant, looſe cotton from Malta, Alquitran, cochinille, campeche, wood, copperas, lead, gunpowder, pitch, and tin oar; and upon all goods made of ſilk, hair and wool, eleven and two thirds per cent. and the ſame upon all fiſh, ſalt beef, thread, dyed ſilk, ribbons of all ſorts, ſtockings, hats, hardwares, iron, ſteel and copper unwrought, pipe ſtaves, dried fruits, all ſorts of apothecary’s drugs, and other ſmall articles, ſheep, hogs, mules, &c. and though there be charged about 52 per cent. in the ſaid cuſtom houſes out of Barcelona, upon all ſorts of goods made up, or worked with the needle for wearing apparel, tin manufactured, and other materials wrought up in any ſhape, as alſo cotton ſpun or in the ſkeyn brought from the Levant, ſo few are the ſaid commodities, that are brought in and entred upon account of the high duty, that they can very little reduce thoſe of the fifteen per cent. that ſhall be charged, nay the product will be rather augmented by a reduction of the duty, as we ſhall prevent the frauds, that are uſually committed in this merchandiſe for the reaſons abovementioned.”

“Hardwares are also manufactured with success in the Prussian states. Nuremberg is celebrated for toys, and Augsburg, Wurzburg, Munich, and other places in Bavaria produce common hardwares and tools. Würtemberg manufactures jewellery, cutlery, and common hardwares. Saxony has several manufactures of hardwares, &c.”

“Exporters of hardwares, earthenwares, glasswares, rubber goods, piece goods, braids, brushes, buttons, corns, dyes, celluloid goods, electrics, […]”

“It is worth noting that, in this section, we try to be as general as possible and not to focus on specific hardwares, softwares, mechanisms or technologies.”

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