The Encyclopedia of Founding

Twelve hundred entries from the golden age of cast metal — how bells are founded, why brass is not bronze, what a cupola melts and a core withstands — by Simpson Bolland, the trade's great teacher.

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Gold Alloy

An imitation resembling the pure metal in color and of about the same specific gravity is made by melting together in a crucible, well covered with charcoal-dust, copper 7, platinum 16, zinc 1. Mannheim gold, another beautiful imitation, is made in the same way from copper 16, zinc 4, tin 1. Gold 75, copper 25, and a little silver is a remarkable jewelry composition.

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