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<p>[QUOTE="Fid, post: 655415, member: 7724"]aah okay. this "Professor" is a complete weirdo. he made up this list after he found out that his German was soooo brilliant, that he didn't need to know the history of WMF nor the basics about different metals.</p><p>two examples only. </p><p>I/O. this was first used by the old Werkmeister and simply means "in Ordnung"; what he mentions about 1 gram per decimeter of silver is (one of the) the official German standard for flatware.</p><p><br /></p><p>Britannia metal was not rare and is an alloy that some include into the pewter family, some don't. the big advantage is the possibility that you can polish it till it looks like silver (Oscar statuets etc.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Fid, post: 655415, member: 7724"]aah okay. this "Professor" is a complete weirdo. he made up this list after he found out that his German was soooo brilliant, that he didn't need to know the history of WMF nor the basics about different metals. two examples only. I/O. this was first used by the old Werkmeister and simply means "in Ordnung"; what he mentions about 1 gram per decimeter of silver is (one of the) the official German standard for flatware. Britannia metal was not rare and is an alloy that some include into the pewter family, some don't. the big advantage is the possibility that you can polish it till it looks like silver (Oscar statuets etc.)[/QUOTE]
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