Russia, 1907

1907: 1 Troy Ounce platina (Ural Mkt, 82% Ore) = 46.7898 руб (USD$ 23.)
1907: 1 Troy Oz. Pt (Ural Ore, @ .999) = 57.0607 руб (USD$ 28.05) 

1907: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (NYC, Ingot) = 61.7342 руб (USD$ 30.3510)

1907	руб/Poud (82%)	руб/Ozt. (82%)	руб/Ozt. (.999)	руб-$/Ozt. (.999)	USD$/Ozt (Ingot)
Jan	30,000.0	56.9644	69.4688	$34.15	$38.000
Feb	29,000.0	55.0656	67.1532	$33.02	$38.000
Mar	28,000.0	53.1668	64.8375	$31.88	$37.000
Apr	27,000.0	51.2680	62.5219	$30.74	$32.500
May	24,507.7	46.5355	56.7506	$27.90	$29.500
Jun	21,766.2	41.3299	50.4023	$24.78	$26.200
Jul	22,223.1	42.1975	51.4603	$25.30	$26.750
Aug	23,365.4	44.3665	54.1055	$26.30	$28.125
Sep	23,843.1	45.2736	55.2116	$27.14	$28.700
Oct	22,534.6	42.7890	52.1817	$25.65	$27.125
Nov	21,859.2	41.5065	50.6177	$24.89	$26.312
Dec	21,600.0	41.0144	50.0175	$24.59	$26.000

June? 1907: 1 Troy Oz. platina (Ural Mkt, 82% Ore) = 45.94 руб (USD$ 22.58)
June? 1907: 1 Troy Oz. Pt (Ural Ore, .999) = 56.02 руб (USD$ 27.54)
 
 

Russian miner wages:

UK, 1911

Australia produced 184 Ozt platina valued at £ 989.

1911: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (Australia: Mkt) = £ 5.375 (USD$ 26.12)

June 1911: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (New York Mkt) ~ £ 8.80 (USD$ 42.75)

August 1911: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (New York Mkt) ~ £ 9.16 (USD$ 44.50)


January 1911: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (London Mkt) = £ 8.33 (USD$ )
February? 1911: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (London Mkt) = £ 8.78 (USD$ )
May 1911: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (London Mkt) = £ 8.95 (USD$ 43.50)
June 1911: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (London Mkt) = £ 9.06 (USD$ )

Citation: The Chemical world, Vol. 1 (Oct. 1912) p. 354


 


Citation: The Economic World, Vol. 87 (6/17/191) p. 20

English Apothecary Weight

Symbols:

UK, 1881

1881: 1 Troy Ounce platina (Est.: SPb mkt, bulk 75%) ~ £ 0.4604 (USD$ 2.24)
1881: 1 Troy Ounce Pt (SPb mkt, .999) = £ 0.6139 (USD$ 2.98)
1881: 1 Troy Oz. platina (Est.: London, bulk 75%) ~ £ 1.02 (USD$ 4.96)
1881: 1 Troy Oz. platina (London: ore@ .999?) ~ £ 1.36 (USD$ 6.58) 

1881: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (Paris: Ingot, .999) ~ £ 1.60 (USD$ 7.785)

1881/2: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (UK: Sheet, retail) = £ 2.00 (USD$ 9.72)

1881: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (USA: Coin, Scrap rate) ~ £ 1.45 (USD$ 7.05)
1881: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (USA: Semi-Mfg, Retail) = ~ £ 2.468 (USD$ 12.)  
1881: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (USA: European Mfg., Retail) ~ £ 2.542 (USD$ 12.36)

1881: 1 Troy Oz. platina (London, bulk) ~ £ 1.36 (USD$ 6.58)
 

Citation: The Electrical Engineer, Vol. 15, No. 254, 3/15/1893 p.268

Suspect dated price information.

Citation: Amateur Work, Illustrated, Vol. 2 (1883)
The platinum foil costs about 30s. an ounce, but this quantity is not necessarily expended in one cell.

Germany, 1883

10/83: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (UK: Mfg, Bulk) ~ℳ 31.80 (£ 1.5381) 
1883: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (UK: Semi-Mfg, Ret.) ~ ℳ  37.17 (USD$ 9.29)

1883: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (Paris: Whols. Mkt, intrinsic) ~ ℳ  19. (USD$ 4.51)
1883: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (USA?: Trade, intrinsic) ~ ℳ  22. (USD$ 5.23)
1883: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (NYC: imported, Unmfg) ~ ℳ  27.20 (USD$ 6.46)
1883: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (NYC: Wire, Whols.) ~ ℳ  29.40 (USD$ 6.98)
1883: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (NYC: US Mfg., Trade) ~ ℳ  44.15 (USD$ 10.50)

Avg. 1883: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (Germ.: Semi-Mfg, Bulk) = ℳ 27.90 ($ 6.62)
Avg. 1883: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (Germany: Mfg, Bulk) = ℳ 29.455 ($ 7.)
Avg. 1883: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (Germ.: Mfg, Ret.) = ℳ 31.08 ($ 7.38)

On 10/28/83, a large crucible weighing 10.48 Ozt (containing ~235 cc.?) was billed at ℳ 1,058.28/kg
 
Concerning the cost of platinumware, on 28th October 1883, Abbe wrote to Schott : “found here on my desk a platinum crucible from Heraeus (326 Grams billed at 345 Mark). Apparently quite close to the specification, only it looks thicker (scrap platinum at 800 Mark per kilo taken back). Was told from London by 26th (as mailed): crucible 716 Grams, stirrer 1,098 Grams = 1,814 Grams comes to Fr. 2,267.5 {£ 89.70 or £ 1.538/Ozt; Fr. 38.8794/Ozt = $ 7.504}...”

Priced in London in 'French money' (coin) the assumed value in Gold rather than merchant bill or credit. Where a US Double Eagle was then worth £ 4.10, a Fr. 20 was worth £ 0.7912.

Where weight is by Metric Gram, 1 Kilogram German Platinumware cost ℳ 1,058.30 (~£ 51.81; USD$ 251.75) whereas UK Platinumware cost Fr 1,250./kg (ℳ 1,000.; ~£ 49.50) although it's likely that shipping, insurance and any customs duty would have raised that expense. Unmanufactured Platinum in large bulk then cost ℳ 900./kg.  Platinumware was 28.25% more expensive than it had been in 1865.

1865: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (Germ. Prod.: Crucible, Ret. Discount) = ℳ 25.665
1865: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (Germ. Scrap, Prod. BID) = ℳ 14.

1869: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (Germ. Mfg: Crucible, Ret.) =  ℳ  30.78
   
Oct. 1883: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (Germany: Mfg, Ret.) = ℳ 32.9163 (USD$ 7.82)
Oct. 1883: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (Scrap: Prod. Bid) = ℳ 24.883 (USD$ 5.91)
10/83: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (Germ.: Mfg, Whol.) = ℳ 31.1035 (USD$ 7.39)  
10/83: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (Germ.: Semi-Mfg, Whol.) = ℳ 29.55 (USD$ 7.02)  


10/83: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (UK: Mfg, Bulk) =ℳ 31.1035 ("Fr. 38.88" / £ 1.5381)
(18.5 d./dwt.?) ................................ (USD$ 7.50)




Robert Hasenclever's February 1892 original table for Platinum still prices, per kg:

Avg. 1883: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (Germany: Mfg, Bulk)= ℳ 29.455 (USD$ 7.00)

Avg. 1883: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (Germ.: Semi-Mfg, Bulk)=ℳ 27.89 (USD$ 6.62) 

10/83: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (Germ.: Mfg, Whol.) = ℳ 31.1035 (USD$ 7.39)

Citation: Die Chemische Industrie, 1892 Vol. 15 (1892) p.70



German Export of 'Dental Pt' to Russia? 

Germany, 1812

To outfit a scientific glass laboratory at Jena, Goethe gave a summary of the supplies and purchases for the year 1812.  Item six on this list relates to platinum equipment costing a total of Rthlr 113.0626 ~ Fr. 412., which presumably included transport/handling costs.


1810/1: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (Paris: Mfg, Ret.) ~ Rthlr 10.04 (Fr 36.6)

Finally he transferred the responsibility for the Dobereiner laboratory to his son Julius August Walter von Goethe (1789-1830), who had studied law at Heidelberg and Jena, and who became an indispensable assistant to his father. Part of the detailed instructions written to the son on 28th April, 1812, states:

“If the equipment arrives from Paris, the Court commissioner Ullmann has orders to send them to Prof. Dobereiner in Jena and hand the bill for them - which may be near 70 Rthlr [Reichsthaler] - to His Excellency der Geheime Rath von Voigt asking him to be so kind as to authorise it with the addition of the separate account.”
 
In a report to the main control agency dated November 22nd, Goethe gives a summary of the supplies and purchases for the year 1812. Item six on this list relates to platinum equipment costing a total of 113 Reichsthaler, 2 Groschen and 8 Denar, a Denar being equivalent to a Pfennig.

c.1812:  Platinum is manufactured in Germany

Citation: Allgemeine Handlungs-Zeitung: mit den neuesten Erfindungen und ..., Vol. 20 (1813) p.670


Herr Frick, Arkanift the Porcelain Manufactory in Berlin, has entered a new mode of proceeding to present the cleaned platinum in solid pieces. He says the same about the following:

If you have cleaned the crude platinum by dissolution in aqua regia and precipitating with ammonia, so it was difficult until now of the annealed Platinaniederschlag melted into a continuous whole or welded together to represent.

 

Baden Tariff