Material used for decoration, could it be mamas?

thomas hauschild · 2nd March 2024, 06:48 PM

I’m wondering where mamas comes from. An alloy made of nickel ( and others) seems not to be easy to be produced / melted.
Silver will be availiable from coins or traded billets It can be hammered to thin metal sheets if its needed.

Zinc and tin (?) Will be common to use it for an alloy but nickel ? Modern coins are made of nickel and copper with 75% copper and 25% nickel. Is there a different usage for mamas to use it mainly for different pieces than our weapons.

A. G. Maisey · 2nd March 2024, 11:03 PM

See post #5:-

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...412#post288412

A little more in depth info:-

https://journals.openedition.org/artefact/1996

EDIT

there is another material that is sometimes used in ornamentation in SE Asia, & that is tin, we often find it used in seluts, where it is nearly always mistaken for silver --- until the little bottle of test fluid gets opened.

milandro · 3rd March 2024, 01:13 PM

So I have my answer from the last comment

Tin it is! The difference with aluminum is pretty easy to assess and that is that tin is magnetic whilst aluminum isn't.

I tested with a magnet and , lo and behold, it is attracting the decoration plates.

https://sciencing.com/change-color-m...s-8584080.html

2nd March 2024, 11:03 PM	#2
A. G. Maisey Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 6,730	See post #5:- http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...412#post288412 A little more in depth info:- https://journals.openedition.org/artefact/1996 EDIT there is another material that is sometimes used in ornamentation in SE Asia, & that is tin, we often find it used in seluts, where it is nearly always mistaken for silver --- until the little bottle of test fluid gets opened. Last edited by A. G. Maisey; 2nd March 2024 at 11:23 PM. Reason: Afterthought

2nd March 2024, 06:48 PM	#1
thomas hauschild Member Join Date: May 2017 Location: Germany Posts: 139	I’m wondering where mamas comes from. An alloy made of nickel ( and others) seems not to be easy to be produced / melted. Silver will be availiable from coins or traded billets It can be hammered to thin metal sheets if its needed. Zinc and tin (?) Will be common to use it for an alloy but nickel ? Modern coins are made of nickel and copper with 75% copper and 25% nickel. Is there a different usage for mamas to use it mainly for different pieces than our weapons.

3rd March 2024, 01:13 PM	#3
milandro Member Join Date: Jan 2022 Location: Netherlands Posts: 421	So I have my answer from the last comment Tin it is! The difference with aluminum is pretty easy to assess and that is that tin is magnetic whilst aluminum isn't. I tested with a magnet and , lo and behold, it is attracting the decoration plates. https://sciencing.com/change-color-m...s-8584080.html