BOOK TITLE: The Australia Times - Antiques magazine. Volume 1, issue 2
COMPANY NAME: THE AUSTRALIA TIMES
COMPANY URL: HTTP://WWW.THEAUSTRALIATIMES.COM
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ANTIQUES
Vol. 1 No. 2
June 2015
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ANTIQUES
WELCOME NOTE
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Welcome, everybody, to the second
edition of The Australia Times – ANTIQUES
magazine!
In this issue of TAT Antiques, we will be
covering one of the trickier elements of
antiques – gold and silver. How to identify
gold and silver, how to read marks, how
to distinguish gold and silver from similar-
looking metals, and how to discern what’s
real, what’s fake, and what the dierences
are between the various grades and levels of
gold, silver and types of imitations which are
to be found out there in the world.
The cover-image for this issue of TAT
Antiques is the entrance to the London
Silver Vaults, a vast, underground storage-
facility holding millions of pounds in sterling
silver tableware, jewellery and other items
made of silver.
We aim to inform, entertain, teach, encourage, educate and support the community at
large by facilitating communication between all Australians. By providing the opportunity
for all opinions to be shared on a single website.
What Are Gold and Silver? ....................................................8
Solid Gold and Solid Silver .....................................................10
All That Glisters is Not Gold (or silver!) .............................16
Making your Mark: Hallmarks of All Kinds ......................20
Collecting Antique Gold and Silver .................................... 26