Talmi gold

Description

A metal composed of a thin sheet of gold rolled on brass. It is used in making costume jewelry. The name was originally called Tallois half-gold when it was invented in Paris about 1865.

Synonyms and Related Terms

Tallois half-gold; Abyssinian gold; counterfeit gold; Talmi (Deut.)

Authority

• G.S.Brady, G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 216

• Random House, Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997

• The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998