Abstract
For thousands of years gold was employed in the form of beaten gold leaf for purposes of decoration and embellishment. The fragility and the costs of production and application of the metal in this form were major obstacles to its more widespread use for much of this time. The development of transferable gold coatings produced by vacuum deposition revolutionised what was pre-eminently a hand craft.
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