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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bruthajoe, post: 3903056, member: 108656&quot;]It does look very silvery,&nbsp; but nickles tend to be like that. In 1823 a German competition was held to perfect the production process: the goal was to develop an alloy that possessed the closest visual similarity to silver. The brothers Henniger in <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin" rel="nofollow">Berlin</a> and <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ernst_August_Geitner&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ernst_August_Geitner&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" rel="nofollow">Ernst August Geitner</a> in <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneeberg,_Saxony" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneeberg,_Saxony" rel="nofollow">Schneeberg</a> independently achieved this goal. The manufacturer Berndorf named the trademark brand <i>Alpacca</i>, which became widely known in northern Europe for nickel silver. In 1830 the German process of manufacture was introduced into England, while exports of paktong from China gradually stopped. In 1832, a form of German silver was also developed[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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