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Show "Solid Gold." Commercially speaking, the term "solid gold" la a misnomer, since such gold has not been used for many, many years. Some of the ancient Roman Ro-man jewelry and some of that f the Renaissance period was. Indeed, made of pure gold, worked up by hand lth the crudest of tools, but since Hie old days there Las been a constantly Increasing In-creasing employment of alloys, for the reason that jewelers found that the harder the gold waa rendered by goo! alloys the greater its wearing qualities quali-ties and the more secure, therefore, was the setting of the gen s It contained. con-tained. Nowadays jewelry la of 18, 14 or 10 carats, according to the design de-sign and character of the article, and It Is much more frequently ten than eighteen carats. |