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An old silver-plated cigarette case

Price: 4 000₽

18+
Antiques XX century
Old silver-plated cigarette case or business card holder, Alpacca
Strict classical chisel ornament decorates the lower and upper sashes
Dimensions 6.5×9 cm
A great solution for storing valuables
For collection and intended use
“ALPACCA” is a metal . In 1823, German chemist Dr. Ernst August Geitner (1783-1852) developed a new alloy, very similar in appearance to silver, but much cheaper. He therefore named this alloy “Argentan”. It consisted of 20% nickel, 55% copper and 25% zinc.The new silver-imitation alloy soon became very popular. Foundryman Henninger Brothers (Gebruder Henninger) in Berlin offered a similar alloy (5-30% nickel, 45-70% copper and 8-45% zinc) in 1854, which was called “Neusilber”. Then both Argentan and Neusilber were used in Germany and Austria-Hungary under the trade name Alpacca, which corresponds to the name of a grazing animal in the South American Andes of Chile, Bolivia and Peru, alpaca is a transcription of the pronunciation in English

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SKU: 01384 Categories: Accessories, cigarette case, Silvering Tags: Antiques, Collector's item, Perfect for a gift, Perfect for the collection

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You can get the goods FREE of charge self-carriage in our antique store: Moscow, Ulitsa Pluschiha, 9 st2.
Delivery within Moscow (within the MKAD): 500₽.
Outside the MKAD (up to 10 km /800p. Over 10 km 800₽ + 50₽ km): 800₽.
Possible delivery to any region of Russia, transportation companies SDEK, PEC, Delovye Lines. The cost of delivery is calculated according to the tariffs of transportation companies.

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