[Jewelry making - Article 01299] - Re: [Orchid] Sterling or Nickel

[Pam Chott]

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>        <snip> --- but I made the actual pin, the stabby part that goes
>     through your shirt, out of spring hardened steel. <snip>   . . .
>     Still, I stamped the pc "Sterling." I was wrong?!? Like I said, my
>     mind is completely blown. The Spring hardened Steel is the only
>     metal that made the pin function as a pin. 
 
Hi Marya.
 
I don't think you should worry. 

    This is from the April 2001 revision of the Federal Trade
    Commission's "Guides for the Jewelry, Precious Metals, and Pewter
    Industries": 

    (c)  Exemptions recognized in the industry and not to be considered
    in any assay for quality of a silver industry product include screws,
    rivets, springs, spring pins for wrist watch straps; posts and
    separable backs of lapel buttons; wire pegs, posts, and nuts used
    for applying mountings or other ornaments, which mountings or
    ornaments shall be of the quality marked; pin stems (e.g., of badges,
    brooches, emblem pins, hat pins, and scarf pins, etc.); levers for
    belt buckles; blades and skeletons of pocket knives; field pieces and
    bezels for lockets; bracelet and necklace snap tongues; any other
    joints, catches, or screws; and metallic parts completely and
    permanently encased in a nonmetallic covering. 

    The exemptions listed are similar for items made of gold as well as
    for silver in combination with gold.  These exemptions are not listed
    in the table of contents but appear in the Guide's appendix. 

    The complete text can be found at this URL:
    http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/guides/jewel-gd.pdf 

HTH 
Pam Chott 
www.songofthephoenix.com

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