Book description
This is a complete guide to collecting copper and brass, beginning with
the composition and properties and how it is treated for manufacture. It
includes descriptions of brass, bronze, ormulu, pinchbeck, Muntz's
metal, gunmetal and bell metal, and how these are made into useful
articles or ornaments. Copper and brass have been used during many
centuries all over the world, and this book includes products in the
metals from Europe, India and the Orient and Africa. There are notes on
repairs and preservation and hints on collecting and display. The book
describes a list ranging alphabetically from ale and spirit measures to
wax jacks and weights and measures it also discusses such things as
aquamaniles, buttons, ormulu mounts and mortars, armory and much else.
Contents Include COPPER AND ITS ALLOYS: Mining and Manufacture Alloys,
Composition and Uses Countries in Which Copper Alloys Have Been Used A
DICTIONARY OF ARTICLES MADE FROM COPPER AND ITS ALLOYS: Fakes Cleaning
