Germany, 1875

1875: 1 Troy Ounce Platinum (Mfg, Bulk) = ℳ  24.883 (USD$ )

Citation: Handbuch der chemischen Technologie: Neue Folge, Vol. 12;  Georges Lunge et al. (1903) p.785

Russia, 1875

DSQ



1875: Pt Yield = 94.185 Poud = 3,767.4 Funt = 49,602 Ozt.= 1,542.8 Kgs. 

France, 1875

Where the cost of refining was presumably ~Fr. 24./kg, 1 kg Pt = Fr. 1,094. - Fr 1,360
 
1875: 1 Troy Ounce platina (Paris, Retail) = Fr. 24.88
1875: 1 Troy Oz platina (Paris, Ret.) = Fr. 31.10

1875: 1 Troy Oz Pt (Paris: Intrinsic) = Fr. 33.265 - 41.582
1875: 1 Troy Oz Pt (Paris: Small Producer Cost) = Fr. 34.01 - 42.33
1875: 1 Troy Oz Pt (Paris: Small Producer Mfg) = Fr. 35.93 - 44.25


Per Kg: Fr 1,000 > Fr 938.35 > Fr 914.24 > Fr 683.85 > ~ Fr 445. - 513.

1875: 1 Troy Oz Platinum (Paris: Mfg, Bulk) = Fr. 31.10 
1875: 1 Troy Oz Platinum (Paris Net Mfg) = Fr. 29.19
1875: 1 Troy Oz platina (Paris: Intrinsic) = Fr. 28.44
1875: 1 Troy Oz platina (Paris: Ore: break-even) = Fr. 21.27
1875: 1 Troy Oz platina (Paris: Ore, Bulk) ~ Fr. 21.27

Citation: Bulletin de statistique et de législation comparée, Vol. 56 p.645

The Platinum Still which cost Fr 41,000 in 1872 cost Fr 50,000 in 1875: the reported price had risen 21.95% in three years.

Citation: Bulletin de la Société chimique de Paris, Annee 1876: 1er Semestre Tome XXV, p.



1875: 1 Troy Oz Platinum (Paris: Intrinsic, Bulk) = Fr. 31.10 



Citation: Le Moniteur scientifique du Doctor Quesneville: Journal ..., Vol. 39-40 G. A. Quesneville, p.664



1875: 1 Troy Ounce Platino-Iridium (Unique) = Fr. 101.98
1875: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (Unique) = Fr. 90
1875: 1 Troy Oz. Iridium (Unique) = Fr. 200

 
 


Where the assumed intrinsic value of Gold-plated "Platinum" counterfeit FF 20 (0.1866 Ozt Fine Au) was ~Fr. 4. with 5.26 g Fine Platinum (Counterfeit Alloy: 81.5% Pt, 18.5% Cu with a Specific Gravity of 17.3 matches the Napoleon) actual Platinum cost delivered is unknown.

1874/5?: 1 Troy Oz Platinum (Paris: Intrinsic, Scrap?) ~ Fr. 23.66

Citation: Documents Rélatifs À la Question Monétaire Recueillis Et Publiés en Fascicules (1877) 1/20/1876




In this way, on a large scale, and or over 6 years (since before 1870), Isabellines, Napoleons, Sovereigns have manufactured in Spain. A certain quantity of these coins was introduced to  France by both trade borders by Carlist refugees.  Back in 1870, one of us had the opportunity to review a collection of these fake currencies.  A new collection has been exhibited in the conference of 1876, and we've seen that the forgers had made very considerable progress and were clean their latest products to deceive the public. 
[...]
Manufacturing centers are mainly Valencia and Barcelona. The workshops are equipped with hydraulic presses with which were stamped noiselessly "blanks" of platinum. One workshop in Barcelona would have provided for a million and a half of counterfeit currency; another would work in much larger proportions. The workshops were very well equipted and serviced by qualified mechanics and engravers. The sheets are produced in various parts of Europe by industrialists whose address was communicated; these sheets, according to the witness, were all 25 cm long, 8.5 cm wide and 0.3 cm thick. 

Alloy: 95% Pt, 5% Cu

Citation: Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons;  Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (1877) p.31



BELGIUM:

1875: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (London: Intrinsic) = Fr 32.66

In reply, (to Ignatz Sroof, Direcrtor of the Griesheim Works near Hoechst/Frankfurt, Bavaria) Gustav Delplace of Namur Belgium cited Belgian prices for Platinum acquired from Johnson Matthey:

In the past 5 years, the price for 1 kg refined platinum fluctuated between Fr. 1,050 and Fr. 1,200  depending on the market price for the ore. {...} For the past 5 years, my apparatuses are from the platinum manufacturers Johnson Matthey & Company (Hatton Garden) made ​​in London.

Citation: Chemie-Arbeit in Werk und Labor, Vol. 3 1/1880 p.11
 


c.1875 Lightning Rod Tip often Lead, not pure Platinum

In Platinum, Chapuis Lightning Rod Tip weighed 10.627 Grams (~0.342 Ozt)

USA,1875: McKesson & Robbins Catalogue; Platinum Still Cost

1874: 1 Troy Ounce of Platinum (market) = USD$ 8.71
1874: 1 Troy Ounce of Platinum (retail) = USD$ 14.40  

1876: 1 Troy Ounce of Platinum Alloy (dental: semi-mfg, whols.) = USD$ 8.50

McKesson and Robbins, Inc. Prices current of drugs and druggists’ articles, chemical and pharmaceutical preparations, (1875) p.31

Platinum Foil 1/8th oz., $1.50 - 1.60

Platinum Wire 1/8th oz., $1.25 - 1.35

1875: 1 Troy Ounce Platinum (semi-mfg) = $ 10. - 12.80 (USD$ 11.49 - 14.71)

1875: 1 Troy Ounce Palladium (semi-mfg) = $120. -  134.40 (~USD$ 155. -165.)

1875:  Platinum Still Cost

From The Scientific American, August 8 1874:
Q. What Is the coat of a strip of platinum, such as Is used in a Grove battery? 

A. It depends upon the size of cell. Platinum Is worth about 28 cents per gramme, or between 2 and 3 cents a grain.

1874: 1 Troy Ounce of Platinum (market) = USD$ 8.71
1874: 1 Troy Ounce of Platinum (retail) = USD$ 14.40 

A major vendor of Platinum, S.S. White Co. had a (specie) price reduction in 1875, then another to currency rates (Greenbacks) in 1876.  

1875: 1 Troy Ounce of Platinum (semi-mfg, sheet, whols.) = USD$ 8.50 / $9.77

1875: 1 Troy Ounce of Silver (pure, whols.) = USD$ 2. / $2.30

1875: 1 Troy Ounce of Gold (pure, whols.) = USD$ 22.40 / $ 25.74

Citation: The Dental Cosmos, A Monthly Record of Dental Science,  By James A. White (1874) p.690
 

Citation: The Dental Cosmos, A Monthly Record of Dental Science,  By James A. White (1876) p. 709

Citation: Samuel S. White Catalogue of Dental Instruments and Equipment,  By Samuel Stockton White, Audrey B. Davis (1876) p. 269

 

US Imports:

USA, 1868-75: Investogation of Chemical Markups

The retail charge to University of Michigan students was 40-60% over currency rates, but as high as 300% for some rarer chemicals & reagents.  It is entirely reasonable to assume that Platinum (among the rarest elements) was also subject to the high mark-ups.  


Clearly, the retail price charged was much, much higher than wholesale catalogue prices.

UK, 187?-7: Various Catalogue Prices

1871: Undetermined Platinum (mfg: Gramme Weight Set) = £ 1.50 (USD$ 8.19)

 

1870 - Undated Mottershead &Co. Manchester England Catalogue, "Market St." address prior to 1874

1873?: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (semi-mfg.& mfg.) = £ 1.60

1874:

1873?: Undetermined Platinum (mfg: Gramme Weight Set) = £ 1.50

1875:

Grove's Battery Price

UK, 1875: Johnson & Matthey Still

1875:

1874/5: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (39% ore at purity) £ 1.00 - 1.05 (USD$ 5.59)

Citation: Report on the Geology & Gold Fields of Otago;  Frederick Wollaston Hutton, George H. F. Ulrich, J. G. Black, James McKerrow (1875)




1875:  1 Troy  Oz. Platinum  (semi-mfg., retail)  = £ 2.00  (USD$ 11.18)

Citation: Introduction to experimental physics, theoretical and practical: including ... Adolf Ferdinand Weinhold, Benjamin Loewy, George Carey Foster (1875) addendum advert 









1875:  1 Troy  Oz. Platinum  (mfg., whols.)  = £ 2.55 - 3.75  (USD$ 14. - 21)

c.1875

1876: April 1876 Swindle, with counterfeit Gold Coins

Citation: Reports from Her Majesty's consuls on the manufactures, commerce ..., Vol. 19, Foreign Office p.1621


1872:


1875 Oertling's Decimal Avoirdupois Grain Weights (~8,210+10 grains avd.) not in excess of 17.125 Ozt (532.65 g.)



Prof. Edward Divers, responsible for the chemical laboratory at Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo, Japan, ordered Platinumware from London.

USA, 1873/1875/1900: Metal Prices, Compared

Given the well-known price of silver was falling sharply, with strong likelihood that Silver the most accurate quotation,  a stated silver price of $1.29 a troy ounce specifies 1873.  (Some other metals price data might be somewhat earlier, not later.)

These types of estimations are broad, inexact and not market prices. For example, at the same time, Johnson, Matthey & Co's 1873 Vienna Catalogue cited Ruthenium for 3x as much.

c.1873: 1 Troy Ounce of Ruthenium = $96.

c.1873: 1 Troy Ounce of Rhodium = $ 48.

c.1873: 1 Troy Ounce of Palladium = $ 44.79

c.1873: 1 Troy Ounce of Osmium= $ 22.30

c.1873: 1 Troy Ounce of Platinum = $ 7.90 

Citation: Catechism of money: a hand-book on finance, in the interest of honest money ...By Joseph P. Root (1876) p.236


This list was published in 1875 from earlier sources and with dubious forex, perhaps 1871/2?

Citation: The chemist's manual: a practical treatise on chemistry, qualitative and ...  By Henry Augustus Mott

Circa 1875:

1875: 1 Troy Ounce of Ruthenium = $89.50

1875: 1 Troy Ounce of Rhodium = $ 70.84

1875: 1 Troy Ounce of Palladium = $ 34.18

1875: 1 Troy Ounce of Osmium= $ 44.74

1875: 1 Troy Ounce of Platinum = $ 8.39

Citation:  The universal assistant, and complete mechanic: containing over one million ...  By Richard Moore (1882) p.123

In the last quarter of the 19th C., the cost of importation from chemical & apparatus producers was "more than half the European price," according to contemporary US government sources.

1876:

Citation:  The universal assistant, and complete mechanic: containing over one million ...  By Richard Moore (1882) p.123

Circa 1883: The spot price for Silver was $1.12, nowhere near the $1.37 suggested.  Presumably, these are retail prices!

1883: 1 Troy Ounce of Ruthenium = $ 164.61

1883: 1 Troy Ounce of Rhodium = $157.75

1883: 1 Troy Ounce of Palladium = $96.

1883: 1 Troy Ounce of Osmium= $ 89.16

1883: 1 Troy Ounce of Platinum = $ 10.29

Citation:  J.A. Berly's universal electrical directory and advertiser By Jules Albert Berly (1884), p.5





Circa 1900:

1900: 1 Troy Ounce of Ruthenium = $ 102.88

1900: 1 Troy Ounce of Rhodium = $68.59

1900: 1 Troy Ounce of Palladium = $41.15

1900: 1 Troy Ounce of Osmium= $ 0.82

1900: 1 Troy Ounce of Platinum = $ 17.50