Artefacts
Balaji in Silver
₹2,25,000
A standing Balaji in dark stone, robed and crowned in silver and set with stones. It rests on a turned wooden plinth.
- Metal
- Argentium 96096% silver. Sterling silver is 92.5%.
- Stones
- Gemstone
- Mark
- Argentium-stamped.
- Availability
- By enquiry
Delivered worldwide. Everything leaves the bench through nine inspections.
The material
Argentium 960
96% silver
Sterling silver is 92.5%.
Argentium is a modern silver alloy: germanium in place of part of the copper that sterling uses. That substitution is the whole of the difference, and it is decided at the alloy rather than applied to the surface afterwards.
- The alloy
- Germanium in place of part of the copper.
- The source
- A UK supplier, and alloys in development with them.
- The mark
- Stamped Argentium on everything made in it.
