Germany, 1860

"Gewicht, Zoll-Gewicht, 1 Pfund {500 g} = 30 Loth, 1 Loth = 10 Quentchen {16.6667 g.}"

1860: 1 Troy Ounce Platinum (Paris: Mfg, Intrinsic, Trade)  ~ Thlr. 9.82 (Fr. 37.32)
1860: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (Paris: Semi-Mfg, Sheet, Ret.) ~ Thlr. 10.64 (Fr. 40.44)

1860: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (UK: Intrinsic, Mkt) ~ Thlr. 8.86 (£ 1.35) 
1860: 1 Ozt. Platinum (UK: Semi-Mfg: Retail) ~ Thlr. 10.50 (£ 1.60)

1860:  1 Ozt. Platinum (USA: Mkt) ~ Thlr. 10.86 (USD $ 8.00)
1860: 1 Ozt. Platinum (USA: Semi-Mfg, Wire, Ret.) ~ Thlr. 16.28 (USD $ 12.00)
1860: 1 Ozt. Platinum (USA: Mfg,Mfg, Crucible, Ret.) ~ Thlr. 19.54 (USD $ 14.40) 

1860: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (Intrinsic, Ret) = Thl 11.20 (USD$ 8.25)
1860: 1 Ozt. Platinum (Semi-Mfg, Ret) = Thl 11.82 - 12.45 (USD$ 8.70 - 9.17)

1860: 1 Ozt. Platinum (Mfg, Ret.) = Thl 25.94 (USD$ 19.10)

1860: 1 Ozt. Silver (Mfg, Ret?) = Thl 2.50 (USD$ 1.83)

Citation: Preis-Verzeichniss d. Glashuettenwerke... so wie chemischer... medicinisch ...; Warmbrunn, Quilitz & Co (1860) pp.












Intrinsic price of Evaporating Basin at Thlr 6./ Zoll-Loth 16.67g

 

1860: Where the Loth of Chlor-Platinate should cost Thlr. 4.50

1860: 1 Ounce Chlor-Platin (Photo. Chemical, Ret.) = Thlr. 9.72 
   
1860: 1 Troy Ozt. Platinum Chloride (Chemist's, Ret.) = Thlr. 3.73/ 4.26 ($ 2.79; $3.14 )


Citation: Photographisches Lexicon: ein Alphabetisches Nachschlage-Buch;  Julius Schnauss (1860) p. xvi






1862:

Where the Loth was 14.40 g., the Quentchen ~1.6g.


1862: 1 Ounce Chlor-Gold (Photo. Chemical, Retail) = Thlr. 25.9196
1862: 1 Ounce Chlor-Platin (Photo. Chemical, Ret.) = Thlr. 9.72 

France, 1848

c.1848/9: 1 Troy Ounce Platinum (SPb: Russian Ingot) = Fr 26.355 (6.8357 руб Kr)

c.1848/9: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (NYC: Imported Ingot, Fine?) = (USD$ 7.50 - 8.33)
c.1848: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (NYC: Semi-Mfg, Retail) ~ Fr 56.72 - 57.33 ($ 11.)

c.1848/9: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (Paris: Semi-Mfg, Retail) = Fr. 37.324 (~$ 7.18)
c.1848/9: 1 Troy Oz. Pt Chloride (Paris: PtCl₂, Ret.) = Fr. 31.104 (~$ 5.98)

As indicated, in 1848:
"Mr. Germer Bailliere believes it's useful to readers to insert at the end of this new edition a program of products and utensils necessary to repeat the experiments described therein. He was sent this by a House by honorably known for the purity of its products and dealing especially with everything that relates to the study of chemistry and physics." 

Citation: Chimie élémentaire avec ses principales applications aux arts... Apollinaire Bouchardat (1848) p.595


 
The 1849 Catalogue is identical, as above. (Whereas the 2nd French Edition was translated from the 10th English Edition, the 3rd French Edition was translated from the 18th English Edition.)

Citation: Manipulations électrotypiques ou Traité de galvanoplastie;  Charles V. Walker (1849) p.148




Citation: Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale (1848)





 



1834-(1848)



1845-1850: SPb price



c. 1848/9: Demidoff gives platina nugget to Bruxelles (Belgium.)

Weight: 163.47 g. (~38.3 zolotnik)

France, 1904

Suspect US prices

1904: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum = Fr 99.53 - 107.31

Citation: Revue de métallurgie, Vol. 4 (1907) p.347


1904: 1 Troy Ounce platina (Ore, 83%)= Fr 71.54 - 77.76 (USD$ 13.86 - 15.07)
1904: 1 Troy Oz. Pt (Ru Ore, .999) = Fr 86.19 - 93.69 (USD$ 16.70 - 18.16)
1904: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum = Fr 87.09 - 96.42 (USD$ 16.88 - 18.68)

Citation: Bulletin de statistique et de législation comparée, Vol. 28, # 2. Ministère de l'économie et des finances (1904) p.646

Citation: Angewandte Chemie: Vol. 21 - Page 2597



1904: 1 Troy Ounce Palladium  (Market) = Fr 155.50  (USD$ 30.37)

Citation: La Force motrice de demain: Les piles à gaz et les accumulateurs légers; A. Berthier (1905) p.12

 
1903/4: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum Chloride (PtCl2, Retail) = Fr 15.55  (USD$ 3.04)
 

USA, 1867: SS White Dental Catalogue Prices

1867: 1 Troy Ounce Pt (Paris: SPb Refined, Bulk .980) = $ 4.41 (USD$ 6.11) 
1867: 1 Ozt. Pt (NYC: Import Cost by Mail, Bulk .980) ~ $ 4.63 (USD$ 6.41) 
1867: 1 Ozt. Pt (NYC: Import, Bulk Rate +25%) ~ $ 5.79 (USD$ 8.01)

1866: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (UK: Semi-Mfg, Retail) = $ 8.05 (Au) ; USD$ 11.35 (£ 1.65)
1867:  1 Ozt. Platinum (UK: Scrap, Sold) ~ $4.90 (USD$ 6.77)

1867: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (Germany: Semi-Mfg, Ret.) ~$ 6.72; USD$ 9.29 (Thl 9.33)
1867: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (NYC: Ger. Imp: Semi-Mfg, Retail Rate) ~$ 10.27 (USD$ 14.22)
 
1867: 1 Ozt. Platinum (Sponge: Trade) = $ 10.86 (USD$ 15.)
1867: 1 Ozt. Platinum (Plate: Trade) ~ $ 11.40 (USD$ 15.75)    

The Russian Price at Paris, quoted by Demidoff, was for a Poud-weight (~526 Ozt.)

1867: 1 Troy Ounce Platinum (Paris: Bulk, Ru Pt .98) ~$ 4.41 (USD$ 6.107) 
1868: 1 Ozt. Platinum (Paris: Bulk, Ru Pt .98) = $4.50 (USD$ 5.98)

Citation: Economic geology of the United States: with briefer mention of foreign ... Ralph Stockman Tarr (1905), p.178

McAllister's Philadelphia Catalogue price is about 100% higher than the bulk importer's cost.  Prices presumably in currency. See Catalogue of Optical & Philosophical Instruments, for Sale Wholesale and Retail, William Y. McAllister (1867) p.116:
http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/trade-literature/scientific-instruments/files/51739/imagepages/image116.htm  

May, 1867: 1 Ozt. Platinum (Foil & Wire) = USD $24. ($ 17.52)
 
S.S. White's Catalogue of Dental Materials, Furniture & Instruments, Etc. (1867) records a wholesale price familiar to pre-War years, but sold at a Gold Premium (p.28.)

1867: 1 Troy Ounce Silver (Trade: .999) = $ 2. (USD$ 2.763)
1867: 1 Ozt. Silver (Trade: Mfg .999) = $ 3. (USD$ 4.145)

July 1866?: 1 Ozt. Platinum (USA: Trade, Sponge) ~ $ 9.89 (USD$ 15.00)
July 1866?: 1 Ozt. Pt (USA: Remelting Cost) = $ 0.53 (USD$ 0.80) 

1867: 1 Ozt. "Platinum" (Trade: 60/40? Ag/Pt Alloy, Plate) = $ 6. (USD$ 8.29)

1867: 1 Ozt. "Platinum" (Trade: 40%? Pt Alloy, Cut) = $7. (USD$ 9.67)
1867: 1 Ozt. Platinum (Pt .999, Plate) = $ 10.50 (USD$ 14.51)

 
Citation: Catalogue of Dental Materials, Furniture, Instruments, etc. ;  Samuel S. White (January 1, 1867) p.28

1867: 1 Troy Oz. Gold (Trade: 20k) = $20. (USD$ 27.63)



Likely correct.

1867: 1 Ozt. Platinum (Sponge: Trade) = $ 10.86 (USD$ 15.)
1867: 1 Ozt. Platinum (Plate: Trade) = $ 11.40 (USD$ 15.75)  

 

1867 valuation: Gold 'twice the price of' (manfactured retail) Platinum

Citation: A manual of inorganic chemistry: arranged to facilitate the experimental ... ;Charles W. Eliot, Frank H. Storer (1867)


US Imports of Platinum: $ 91,157
"Indirect Trade"
UK: Unmfg, $47,917 ; Mfg, $ 53,266; Other Mfg, $291.
France: Unmfg, $1,310; Mfg, $11,045.
Germany (Hesse-Darmstadt): Unmfg, $978




December, 1867: Detroit pharmacist price, "Cash" (in Gold) selling chemicals and "the first trituration of platina"

1867: 1 Fluid Oz. Platinum Chloride (PtCl₂, Ret.) = $3.50 (USD$ 4.84)
1867: 1 Troy Ounce Homeopathic solution? (whols., unknown purity) = $ 6. (USD$ 8.29) 

Citation: American Observer Medical Monthly, Vol. 4, 1867; p.516

 

Bulk Shipping Coin (New York to London, ~243 Kgs) c.1866/7:  $ 0.023/Ozt

In the USA, 10,000 Mexican Dollars weighed a total of 8,660 Ozt; 7,815.65 Ozt (243.1 Kg) Fine Silver. The total cost of purchase, shipping, interest charged to England was $ 199.
 
1867: 1 Ozt. Silver .999 (New York, Bulk) = $1.175
1867: 1 Ozt. Silver .999 (London, Bulk, NY Shipped, Interest) = $1.1979

 

Freight, NYC-Brest:

1 Ozt = $ 0.21943