Products – Assay Office

◊ Details include: Interior etched floor boards,

     additional window and door trim, removable

     roofs, extra interchangeable wall included for

     multiple building options, windows and doors

     can be positioned open or closed and include

     laser-cut glazing. Includes an optional front

     porch (shown to the right).

◊ Our trademark EASY to follow FULLY

     Illustrated step-by-step instructions make

     building easy!

◊ Precision Laser cut wood construction.

◊ Includes our laser-cut, realistic no-paint

     shake shingles (#_04) and tar paper roofing.

◊ Footprints

          Z = 1.2” x 1.8”

          N = 1.6” x 2.4”

          HO = 2.5" x 4.3"

          S = 3.4” x 6.2”

          O = 4.6” x 8.3”

◊ As with all of kits, we include some way for

     you to customize our structures right out of

     the box. This allows you to add you own

     personal touch to fit your layout. The Assay

     Office is no exception!

◊ This kit includes extra signs: Assay Office,

     Bank and Saloon. Z, N, HO and S scales

     include an extra wall for different window

     arrangements, and all versions now have

     an optional front porch roof included!

Features:

History:

The assay office, more importantly the assayer, was a very busy person in a booming mining camp. The assayer, a well-respected man in these camps, was the one that told a prospector of the fortunes of his ore, bonanza or bust.

Interior Detailing for an Assay Office

Though this model was designed as a one room assay office, another common layout for an assay office, would have been a three room layout in which there were three rooms in a row, each connecting to the next.

1. The first room would have been the office, with a desk, shelves and work tables.

2. The second room would have been the assayers laboratory, complete with a furnace, work tables, and plenty of shelves for chemical reagents.

3. The third room would be where the apprentice worked, crushing the ore samples to fine dust.

This model is a freelance designed false front building which draws from some of the common architectural elements and styles found on structures of the time. An assay office is just one of the many possibilities that this structure could be used as.