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From: Carol Wang
Date: Sat May 06 20:45:55 2006
 
     
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    I am very fond of metal beads, but as with all beads, even when
    buying items in bulk, good labelling is hard to come by. My question
    is: if it looks like brass, can you safely assume it's brass? Is
    there a cheaper alloy that looks like brass? 

    On a similar topic, silver coloured brass plated beads. If they are
    not labelled as silver plated, I would expect them to not be silver
    plated, so... would it be nickel? If you have a clearly bright nickel
    plated brass bead, what would the softer silver coloured one be
    plated with? 

    Lastly, is there a particular metal/finish that gives the gunmetal
    colour to a metal bead? 

Carol Wang
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