USA, 1834/5: French Platinum Price ; Brown & Francis Catalogue (NYC, 1836)

1835: Troy Ounce Platinum (manufactured, retail) ~ $ 18.


December, 1835: Estimated Price for Construction Materials, Delaware Bay Lighthouse. Platina points were cheaper in New York City, in 1848.

Citation: Congressional Edition, Vol. 280  US Congress (1836) p. 89

Despite fluctuating market prices 1828-34, Russia's Platinum coinage is commonly believed to have preserved "an exact mean between Gold & Silver."

c.1834:

Citation: Railway locomotives and cars, Vol. 4, Part 1, April 1835 p.256

Boston: Two Claxton & Wightman Catalogues from 1835 are included in Joseph Brown's Advertiser of Philosophical & Astronomical Apparatus, Issued Quarterly at his Manufactory.... (Boston: Dutton & Wentworth, 1835.)  Both list "Platina Wire, Sponge and Foil" (p.11; p.3) but no prices are given.

c.1835: 1 Troy Ounce of Platinum (semi-mfg, sheet, mkt.) = USD$ 7.50

1834: 1 Troy Ounce of Platinum (refined, Paris retail)  = Fr 31.1 (USD$ )
1835: 1 Troy Ounce of Platinum (refined, Paris retail)  = Fr 31.1 (USD$ 5.82) 
1836:  1 Troy Ounce Platinum  = Fr 29.55 - 31.10 (USD$ 5.65 - 5.94)  
1836: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (semi-mfg, whols.)  = £ 1.20 - 1.75 (USD$ 5.83 - 8.51)

Citation: Supplement, An experimental guide to chemistry, By Edward Davy, 1836 (end pages; p.4)

 

1835: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (manufactured)  = £ 1.70 (USD$ 8.25)

Platinum-tipped forceps were sold from the Davy Catalogues at £ 0.30 (~USD$ 1.45) and in the Catalogue of philosophical and astronomical apparatus, manufactured by J. Brown, C.S. Francis, 252 Broadway, New-York (1836) for USD$ 1.50.

Other goods in the Brown & Francis Catalogue may not be imports, but US prices were probably near British catalogue prices.

1835: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (manufactured)  > USD$ 8.50



c.1833/4: 1 Troy Ounce of Platinum (refined, Paris whols.)  > Fr 20.32 (USD$ 3.76)
1834: 1 Troy Ounce Palladium (refined, Price Collapse) = Fr 28.44  (USD$ 5.22)   

Citation: Family magazine: or, Monthly abstract of general knowledge, Vol. 3 (1835-6) p.141