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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ownedbybear, post: 3628903, member: 29&quot;]That&#039;s a rather shallow exposition on that site, sadly. Whilst there might have been wee bits of platinum used earlier&nbsp; on, it really didn&#039;t get going as a setting till the 20th. Silver was the usual setting, then white gold as [USER=2844]@Any Jewelry[/USER] said. </p><p><br /></p><p>My chemistry brain agrees with [USER=14649]@MaJa[/USER] that until ultra high temperature smelters and torches were available it was a pig to work platinum. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is an excellent and scholarly article:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.langantiques.com/university/platinum-2/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.langantiques.com/university/platinum-2/" rel="nofollow">https://www.langantiques.com/university/platinum-2/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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