Question: What was the thickness of each gold plate?


Question: What was the thickness of each gold plate?

Each plate was as thick as thick paper, parchment or tin

  • "of the thickness of tin" - Oliver Cowdery [1]
  • "of the thickness of plates of tin"[2] —Martin Harris
  • "thin leaves of gold"[3] - Martin Harris
  • "about as thick as parchment"[4] — David Whitmer
  • "[We] could raise the leaves this way (raising a few leaves of the Bible before him)."[5] — William Smith
  • "They seemed to be pliable like thick paper, and would rustle with a metalic [sic] sound when the edges were moved by the thumb, as one does sometimes thumb the edges of a book."[6] — Emma Smith
  • "each as thick as a pane of glass" - Critical newspaper[7]
  • "the plates themselves were about as thick as window glass, or common tin" - Critical newspaper [8]
  • "thickness of tin plates" - Citing David Whitmer [9]
  • "being about the thickness of common tin" - Parley P. Pratt [10]
  • "as thick as common tin" - [11]
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  1. ↑ A.S., “The Golden Bible, or, Campbellism Improved,” Observer and Telegraph. Religious, Political, and Literary, Hudson, Ohio (18 November 1830): 3, quoting Cowdery. off-site
  2. ↑ Martin Harris interview, Tiffany's Monthly, May 1859, 165.
  3. ↑ Martin Harris interview, Iowa State Register, August 1870, as quoted in Backman, Eyewitness Accounts, 226.
  4. ↑ Martin Harris interview, Iowa State Register, August 1870, as quoted in Backman, Eyewitness Accounts, 226.
  5. ↑ William Smith, The Saints' Herald, 4 October 1884, 644.
  6. ↑ Emma Smith interview, The Saints' Herald, 1 October 1879.
  7. ↑ “Mormonism,” Fredonia Censor (New York) (7 March 1832). Reprinted from the Franklin Democrat (Pennsylvania) circa March 1832. off-site
  8. ↑ “The Orators of Mormon,” Catholic Telegraph (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1 (14 April 1832): 204–5. Reprinted from Mercer Press (Pennsylvania), circa April 1832. off-site
  9. ↑ ED Howe, Mormonism Unvailed, 15; attributed to David Whitmer off-site
  10. ↑ Parley P. Pratt, "Discovery of an Ancient Record in America," Millennial Star 1 no. 2 (June 1840), 30–37. off-site
  11. ↑ W. I. Appleby, A Dissertation of Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream... (Brown, Bicking & Guilbert, 1844), 1–24. Full title
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