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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 509945, member: 2844"]Nice tea glass holders, Lucille. I love filigree.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It can be confusing. In Europe Melchior used to be a cover all term for several base alloys which include German silver. The name was first coined in Italy, but the alloys are of French origin.</p><p>Melchior is mostly used in Russia, where it is a copper alloy with some nickel, manganese and iron.</p><p>German silver (alpaca, nickel silver) is copper, zinc and nickel. The copper percentage is not as high as in Melchior.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 509945, member: 2844"]Nice tea glass holders, Lucille. I love filigree.:) It can be confusing. In Europe Melchior used to be a cover all term for several base alloys which include German silver. The name was first coined in Italy, but the alloys are of French origin. Melchior is mostly used in Russia, where it is a copper alloy with some nickel, manganese and iron. German silver (alpaca, nickel silver) is copper, zinc and nickel. The copper percentage is not as high as in Melchior.[/QUOTE]
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