Important: Safety Warning
This page gives an alloy formula containing lead and antimony for jewellery worn against the skin. Both are toxic metals, and prolonged skin contact with lead-bearing alloys is unsafe.
This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon.
Imitation Silver
An alloy of metals for manufacturing articles of jewelry, etc., in artificial silver. An alloy having the same specific gravity as silver consists of: copper 11.71, platinum 2.4, silver 3.53. The following is a beautiful imitation silver that retains its brilliancy: Tin 4 1/2, bismuth 1/2, antimony 1/2, lead 1/2.
Many other alloys of this description are given under their respective heads. See SILVER ALLOYS; MOCK SILVER; GERMAN-SILVER; TOMBAC.