Nathan Robinson wrote: |
I think he's asking what the "silver" hilts are made from. They're made from silver. :) |
Ahh confusing me, 'eh ......
Yes, these hilts would be silver .... how pure I am uncertain ?
I remember reading how at one time they suspected the Lochiel silver hilt, by Walter Allan & Goldsmith Colin Mitchell, of being silvered iron .... but with testing it turned out to be just good 'ol silver !
( * "thus rescuing Mitchell from the suspicion that he marked metal other than silver or gold" ).
*Stuart Maxwell,"Letters from Walter Allan, Armourer in Stirling, to Colin Mitchell,Goldsmith in Canongate,1741-1750.
Mac
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