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The silversmith's handbook : containing full instructions for the alloying and working of silver, including the different modes of refining and melting the metal; its solders; the preparation of imitation alloys... (1921)

Gee, George E. (George Edward) · London : Crosby Lockwood and Son · leaf 163

An illustration from The silversmith's handbook : containing full instructions for the alloying and working of silver, including the different modes of refining and melting the metal; its solders; the preparation of imitation alloys..., 1921, leaf 163
zinc that the outersurface appeared entirely of silver, and a portionof the inner surface was made to show the zinconly, which was quite sufficient for the purpose re-quired. When the ring was put on the finger thezinc, in conjunction with the silver, touched theflesh of the wearer, and was thus… … I30 ON THE WORKING OF SILVER. lasted only for a while, when something else hadto be brought to the front in the silver trade. Themode of the preparation of the wire was as follows:—A bar of silver would be rolled out until a certainthinness was attained, occasionally annealing it during the…

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