Solid 'silver' Tulwar hilt for comment

[indiablade]

ITS NICKEL. I TOLD YOU THAT WHEN YOU BOUGHT IT.

[Atlantia]

Originally Posted by indiablade

ITS NICKEL. I TOLD YOU THAT WHEN YOU BOUGHT IT.

Hi Ray,

Try the Caps lock.

Pure Nickel would be nice, but it's more likely an alloy (that possibly includes Nickel).
Cupronickel, 'white copper' etc. One of the family of 'white metals' used to simulate Silver at lesser cost. Like Alpacca (white copper) is often called 'German Silver'.
If memory serves, pure Nickel is actually magnetic, so that would also suggest that this is an alloy.

[Jim McDougall]

Originally Posted by indiablade

ITS NICKEL. I TOLD YOU THAT WHEN YOU BOUGHT IT.

How eloquent and emphatically noted in capitals in such courtesy! It seems to me that Gene's question was fairly placed, and not just asking for the material used, but for more on the potential history of the weapon. This is actually the kind of questions I always look forward to seeing, and dont really think publically chastizing Gene is really warranted. As Gene has noted, German silver is indeed a cheaper form of material using nickel as an alloy base as I understand, and indeed was used a great deal in military type weapons in the 19th century, again adding to my suggestion in earlier post.