In Demo Veritas

Silver and the knacker-man

So one way to get fairly pure silver to make jewelry from is to refine sterling silver. The process is fairly well documented on the web. Nitric acid to dissolve, water to dilute, ascorbic acid to reduce, wash copper solution from the silver curds several times with distilled water, dry and fuse.

Usually broken chains, or silver jewelry my mother no longer wants, judged undesirable by her daughters in law or grandchildren, all go in the flask. Sometimes a yard sale find.

This yard sale find seemed a bit too nice to knacker, so I looked up the hallmark. It seemed too complicated for an amateur effort. Once I got that the first letter was a Z and not an R, Google pointed me at the greek website of Zolotas.

Click the thumbnail to open their website:

Here are pictures of the front and back of the brooch/pendant. Nice.