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From: Steelybone
Date: Fri Jul 11 23:28:27 2003
 
     
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    Just exactly what is Bali silver?  I just came back from this
    weekend's International Gem Show (Marlboro MA), and again, I'm
    confused about the silver beads and findings currently on offer.  

    Sterling silver ("bright" or "white") looks like pickled polished
    sterling.  But a lot of this "Bali" stuff is much darker even though
    highly polished, and if you look at it closely, the dark stuff in
    the crevices is NOT polishing compound or patination - it chips off
    like some kind of lacquer.  And all of a sudden this stuff is .30 -
    .35/gram, rather than the .60 - .80 it was recently. WHAT is this? 
    Is it a different alloy?  Non-silver?  Plated?  Does anybody out
    there know what I mean??  

    Help, please - I'm going back tomorrow and I need findings! 

    Tas <-- grumpy, because she used to know EVERYthing 



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