Canadian Jewellers Association · Toronto : Maclean-Hunter Pub. Co · leaf 188
ily dififerentiate them from the othersshown. It is probable that Ulysses fastened his cloakwith one not unlike these. No. 18 deserves special mention for the fact that it isof slilver. There are two facts serving to explain thecomparative scarcity of silver relics from antiquity. Oneis that the… … 48 THE TRADER the divine metal by the Greeks, and was held in respectby ail the races that knew it. But its one-time scarcity asa commodity is not the only thing tending to make \i rarein relics. Silver is unfortunately subject to dissolutionby the action of time and the elements, and much has…
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