Sentence examples for German silver from inspiring English sources
noun
Cupronickel, nickel silver
The occasional bit of German silver kept the boys of Gautam Nagar in vada pav.
The prices fetched for his German silver collection, Mr. Porter said, were particularly strong.
A boldly designed Comanche bridle, circa 1860, makes use of German silver, an alloy of copper, nickel, and zinc.
After 1830 "German silver," nickel alloyed with copper and zinc, often replaced copper as the base metal.
The materials were used in impression trays made of Britannia metal, porcelain, German silver and sometimes silver and vulcanite.
But if there was one thing the titans of the last boom did not buy it was German silver.
There was a pointed quality to the movie being shown in the Kino International, the old East German, silver-curtained theater where high-ranking members of the GDR used to gather for screenings.
Then he died of German-silver fever.
In Rome, as a teen-ager, he pocketed "a piece of bone" from the catacombs, and for years, he later wrote in a memoir, he kept it "tenderly entombed in a tuft of cotton, cradled in a German-silver matchbox".
Lot 283 is a pair of German rococo silver and gilded metal mirrors from the mid-18th-century.
Commonwealth champion Murdoch finished his final three tenths of a second behind German world silver medallist Koch.
