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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 381675, member: 2844&quot;]Very useful, [USER=7724]@alors[/USER]. Those German/Central European terms can be confusing, and there are so many of them.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>&#039;Amerikaner&#039; refers to a technique of heavy goldplating developed in the Austro-Hungarian empire, but used a lot in the US after the Civil War, when gold for jewellery was hard to come by. It was more durable than existing goldplating techniques, like the early 19th century English invention of rolled gold, and made a jewel look like real gold.</p><p>But it meant that any gold that came out of the US at the time was not solid gold but &#039;American gold&#039;, in German: Amerikaner Gold (Doublé, Union, Metall, etc. etc.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/confused.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" />).</p><p><br /></p><p>Amerikaner Metall is not just any old metal, it is goldplated.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>K&amp;L used good quality, and I think their Amerikaner &#039;whatever&#039; is close to, or maybe equal to goldfilled. They also made gold items.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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