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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Circus, post: 2781247, member: 51195&quot;]With the wear on the high spots and only copper close to the raised arts I would thing it was a plating job. Could be a flash plating job with the kits they use to sell at the hobby stores.</p><p>There is no such thing as a brass and copper mix of metals that would look like that.</p><p>There are 100&#039;s of alloys of brass and bronze Brass is copper and zinc of various per cent-ages, Bronzes are copper and tin mixes there are a lot of recognized alloys for both But due to the melting points of the melts and the way it behaves in a crucible it would be brass or bronze color through out. There are a number of alloys that were used back in Victorian times called and used for plating for cheap jewelry gilders metal and pinchbeck metal that have a more golden color, Now it is called Nu-gold[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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