Artefacts
Macaw Trio on Branch
₹1,95,000
Three birds along a carved branch, one set apart from the other two. The composition is asymmetric and reads from one side.
- Metal
- Argentium 96096% silver. Sterling silver is 92.5%.
- Finish
- 18k gold vermeilRe-coated by the house for life.
- Stones
- Rose Quartz
- 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.
