View Single Post
Old 23rd January 2011, 06:31 PM   #7
Battara
EAAF Staff
 
Battara's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Louisville, KY
Posts: 7,272
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by CharlesS
Don't get too excited Battara, it's a very low grade silver, but makes sense for this sort of use. I'd imagine that sheets of better silver would be in shreds on these. You can even see a few places where the silver sleeves have been repaired with an overlapping sleeve of 1-4 inches. One spear has three such places.
Well not surprising. Often done since precious metals are expensive (and insanely so now with gold above $1300/oz!).
Battara is offline   Reply With Quote