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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 396996, member: 2844"]You always have to look at it in daylight, a flash changes the colour. I always look at the drop sideways, in front of a window.</p><p>But it changed colour from yellow to red, so it is silver, as it says on the bottle.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> And as I would expect from an item like this.</p><p>If it was blood red in daylight it is sterling (.925) or close to it. Lower finenesses can give a brownish red. Older Libyan silver, and old Berber silver in general, is usually .800-.900 fineness.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 396996, member: 2844"]You always have to look at it in daylight, a flash changes the colour. I always look at the drop sideways, in front of a window. But it changed colour from yellow to red, so it is silver, as it says on the bottle.;) And as I would expect from an item like this. If it was blood red in daylight it is sterling (.925) or close to it. Lower finenesses can give a brownish red. Older Libyan silver, and old Berber silver in general, is usually .800-.900 fineness.[/QUOTE]
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