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BASE METAL
Base metal refers to non-precious metals. Base metals include copper, zinc, tin, and lead.

Base Metal
Non-precious metals used as a core for plating and gold-filled items. Brass and nickel are common base metals in jewelry.
Beveled
An angled part or surface, usually an angle other than a right angle.

Base Metals
Base metals are found in great abundance throughout the earth's crust. Base metals include: aluminum, copper, lead, mercury, nickle, tin, and zinc.
Light Metals ...

Base metal: Any non-precious metal.
Beryl: A lightly colored mineral which when transparent and dark green is called emerald, and when blue in color, aquamarine.
Cabochon: A domed gemstone. Highly polished curved surface without faceting.

Base Metal: The collective term for any and all non-precious metals.
Basket: A fancy setting with a lacy or basket-looking appearance due to numerous holes pierced in the side.

Base metal - Any non-precious metal

Basket - A fancy setting with numerous side piercings to provide a lacy or basket-look appearance

Bead - A stone cut in the shape of a small sphere
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Base metal, pot metal, white metal
Any combination of alloys of non-precious metals.
Belle Epoque ...

Base Metal - a collective term used to refer to all nonprecious metals.

Base Metals
Base Metals are non-precious metals.
Basket Setting
Basket Setting is a type of setting that has holes in the sides similar to a basket weave.

Base Metal - Any combination of alloys of non-precious metals.
Belle Epoque - Another name for the Edwardian period.

Base Metal: The collective term for any and all non-precious metals often used in jewelry making and coated with another metal e.g. silver plating, gold plating etc.

Base metals are cheaper than the precious metals and have a distinct look of their own. Electroplating, gilting, and other techniques are often applied to coat the base-metal beads with gold and silver.

Base Metal
A collective term for all non-precious metals or alloys with a low intrinsic value.

Base metal
Main metal used on products
Beads
A 3 dimension shaped objects (metal, stone, pearl, wood, bone ect.), can be round or elongated must be drilled from one end to the other, that it can be fit on a string.

Base metal: A non-precious metal.
Bezel: Rim of metal that surrounds and secures a stone.
Box chain: A chain with wide, square links that form boxes.

Base Metal - Base metal is a mixture of non precious metals. Typically a metal from the group; copper, aluminum, nickel, tin, zinc and lead. It is frequently used as a base for gold-filled, gold plated or rolled gold plate coverings.

BASE METAL Any non-precious metal other than the "Noble Metals": which are Gold, Silver, and the Platinum group metals.

Base Metal: Any non precious metal.
Basket Setting: A fancy setting of various shapes with numerous side piercings that provide a basket work or lacy appearance.

Base metal wire which retains a coiled shape.
Millifiori
In Italian it means "thousand flowers". It is the proper name for "mosaic" beads. The pattern goes back to the Byzantine era.

Base Metal: Non-precious metals such as steel, zinc, lead, tin and copper. Used as the core for plating.
Basket Setting: A lacy looking setting that has holes in the side and is similar to the basket weave.

Base metal is a common and inexpensive metal, like Copper, Nickel, Brass and Zinc as opposed to precious metals mainly Gold and Silver.
basket setting ...

Base Metal - Any non-porous metal.
Plated -The process of covering one metal with another metal using electricity.
Solid - Entirely of one metal or containing the minimum alloy necessary to impart hardness.

A base metal upon which a thin plating of gold has been deposited by electrolysis
Hardness
The resistance a gemstone has to scratches and abrasions ...

The base metal was usually an alloy of copper with either tin, zinc or nickel.

Most base metals (copper, lead, zinc, nickel) are traded internationally on the London Metal Exchange, ...

Small base metal finding, resembling a key ring.
Sterling Silver
Silver that is at least 92.5 percent pure with 7.5 parts of another metal, usually copper, to make the piece harder.

Gold-Plate - Base metal which has been electro-chemically bonded with at least 0.0025 mm of gold.
Gold Washed - Extremely thin layerered gold, (less than .175 microns thick), applied by either dipping or burnishing the metal, but not plated.

gold filled - Base metal or silver that has a layer of high karat gold bonded by heat and pressure, not electroplated, over its surface.

Base metal covered with a very thin layer of gold. Usually done by electroplating, where the piece is immersed in electrolyte solution containing gold particles, and then electric current is sent through the solution.

Gold-Plated: Base metal which has been bonded with at least 0.0025 mm of gold. Not as durable as alloyed gold or gold-fill.

An item made of a base metal such as brass or copper, to which a sheet of gold is bonded by pressure or other means. To qualify as gold filled, an article of jewelry must have a layer of gold at least 1/20th, or 5% of the weight of the entire article.

Rolled Gold: A base metal alloy bonded to a "veneer" of precious metal.
Rope: A style of chain in which the links are intertwined to resemble a length of rope.

Base Metal:A non-porous metal that is the primary metal in an alloy. A base metal oxidizes when heated and can be melded or plated.

A metal product where a layer of gold has been bonded over the top of a base metal like brass. The layer of gold in gold fill is much thicker than that of gold plate.

: gold over a base metal) Emerald cut Rectangular shaped stone with mitered corners which is elongated and octagonal Enamel Process of fusing powdered colored glass to a surface by means of high heat Engine-turning Decorated metal surface ...

Base MetalsNon-precious metals such as copper, zinc, nickel, etc. CastingThe method of duplicating an object by pouring metal into a hollow mold formed by the original object.

Gold filled - describing a process of gold plating base metal for jewelry.
Girdle - the circumference portion of the stone; the part that divides the crown from the pavilion.
Grain - 1.

Electroplate: A technique invented in 1840, whereby gold is adhered to base metal. Electroplating allowed gold to be stretched a long way.

Gold Filled: (Also "Goldfilled", or "gold-filled", abbreviated g.f.) A piece of jewelry with a layer of gold mechanically applied to the surface of a base metal, (like brass or copper), ...

There is not so much surviving base metal jewelry from medieval times. There is lots of little buckles and so on, the London Museum is full of items they found on the banks of the river Thames for instance, ...

(Also "Goldfilled", or "gold-filled", abbreviated g.f.) A piece of jewelry with a layer of gold mechanically applied to the surface of a base metal, (like brass or copper), ...

Gold will alloy with nearly all base metals (Cu, Pb, Ni, etc.); different colors of gold are produced by alloying with different base metals. Common alloys are Ni and Cu.
Specific Gravity for pure gold is 19.3.

Gold-filled is a product of the process of physically combining a thin alloy of gold with a gold-tone base metal. The base metal adds strength and is fabricated so that it is on the inside of the wire or sheet metal.

The name speaks for itself: Goldfilled is gold, filled with base metal. The result material is base metal in the metal interior and gold on the exterior.

Gold Filled - Gold filled is where a layer of gold is permanently bonded to a core of base metal using heat and pressure.

Metal tags: These come in a variety of metals such as plated base metals and sterling. They can be purchased blank, and then you can mark them with a stamp. Another option is to buy the tags already marked.

Copper provides good conductivity and forms an excellent protective barrier between the base metal and the plate.

Gold filled jewellery is a solid layer of gold bonded with heat and pressure to a base metal such as brass. Gold filled jewellery is a great cost effective alternative to solid gold jewellery.

Gold-plating of base metals such as Brass or Bronze are sometimes erroneously referred to as Vermeil. When base metals are plated with thin layers of Gold, they should be referred to as Gold plated, not Vermeil. (Pronounced: ver-may) ...

Silver plated is where a base metal usually copper is coated with a layer of silver to stop it from corroding, also known as electroplating or EPNS.

Gold Plating (Electroplating) - When a base metal is covered with a thin layer of gold using the process of electroplating. The thin layer normally wears away more quickly than gold in a gold-filled item. The layer of gold must be at least .

Items made in this manner have a base metal such as brass or steel.
An electroplated application of gold or silver is applied to the metal to give it a gold or silver color.

Gold Electroplated (GEP): A layer of gold at least 7mils (7/1,000,000 of an inch) thick is electrically deposited onto the base metal by immersion in a liquid containing chemically bound gold molecules.

The jewelry is not actually filled, but is made of base metal (usually brass or copper) covered by sheets of gold in a mechanical bonding process.
Gold Plated
A thin coating of electroplated or mechanically plated gold on top of a base metal.

The fluids secreted by a healing piercing cause corrosion of the base metals in the gold. Once a piercing is fully healed, Gold can be worn, although best for limited periods of time as it can tarnish when in contact with bodily fluids.

(6) Use of the terms "Gold Plate," "Gold Plated," "Gold Filled," "Rolled Gold Plate," "Rolled Gold Plated," "Gold Overlay,'' or any abbreviation to describe a product in which the layer of gold plating has been covered with a base metal (such as ...

Silver Plate A fine silver film deposited on a base metal by electrolysis, in the same kind of electrically-charged bath used to make gold electroplate. The film can be as thin as seven millionths of an inch.

A fine silver film deposited on a base metal through electroplating. Base metal may be nickel, silver, copper, or brass.
simulated pearl
Glass beads coated in the ground-up iridescent nacre from fish scales.

Gilding (gilt) is a process of plating a die-stamped piece of base metal to give it a real or pseudo gold or silver color. Most often, and more abundant, are gold color ornaments which have been gilded, rather than silver-color gilt.

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