These alloys, also known as nickel silver, are difficult to melt.
Other individual metals and metal alloys such as nickel silver, copper, and scrap silver were less commonly used.
Sulfur is a harmful impurity in copper-nickel or nickel silver alloys.
Nearly all were made of electroplated brass, copper, or nickel silver (a white metal alloy).
Often the spoons were stored and displayed in special vaselike spoon holders called troncs de comptoir (literally, trunks for the counter of a bar), usually made of pewter or copper-plated nickel silver.
Definition of nickel silver in US English:
nickel silver
nounˈnikəl ˈsilvər
another term for German silver
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Sulfur is a harmful impurity in copper-nickel or nickel silver alloys.
Often the spoons were stored and displayed in special vaselike spoon holders called troncs de comptoir (literally, trunks for the counter of a bar), usually made of pewter or copper-plated nickel silver.
Other individual metals and metal alloys such as nickel silver, copper, and scrap silver were less commonly used.
Nearly all were made of electroplated brass, copper, or nickel silver (a white metal alloy).
These alloys, also known as nickel silver, are difficult to melt.