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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Silver Alloys

For silver-plate and medals--silver 95, copper 5. Silver solder for jewellers--silver 19 dwts., copper 1 dwt., brass 10 dwts. A hard silver solder is composed of silver 6, brass 2; the one most common, and which is softer than the last, has silver 4, brass 2. See IMITATION SILVER; MOCK SILVER; GERMAN-SILVER; BRASS.

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