Show federal assay office employs no S salesmen our govern governments head gold buyer Is the federal assay office on the lower end of manhattan island islan 1 I new york it takes fakes the crude balth if gold got mines and the file gold that other lands send us its essays assays refines it and pays the sender its value in dollars also by check drawn on the federal treasury ry this office does a cash find and farry carry trade and seeks no customers those who would buy or sell gold must come to it bars nuggets dust and amalgam old jewelry or coins from abroad find a market at all federal assay offices is and mints some odd add abil interesting treasures have been packed up lip and tossed into our melting pots said the superintendent in lEi of the now new york office from fl a complete dinner set of gold including every dish used at a formal dinner we got worth of gold but bill all Is not gold that glitters even here to our testing laboratory came one day two bright yellow bricks for which a harlem earlem doctor paid when our assay showed they contained riot not one our ounce of gold the doctor collapsed frederick in the national geographic magazine |