| 1. | To test for spelter, scratch the base of the piece.
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| 2. | The Kenricks also owned a spelter ( zinc ) works at nearby Copperas.
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| 3. | Bronze will appear as bright yellow while spelter will show a silvery scratch.
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| 4. | Spelter : zinc cast as less expensive, lighter figurines than those of bronze.
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| 5. | Zinc is also referred to in nonscientific contexts as " spelter ".
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| 6. | Spelter is soft and breaks easily.
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| 7. | Early twentieth-century Art Nouveau and Art Deco figures and lamps were often made of spelter.
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| 8. | The Welsh Crown Spelter Company went into voluntary liquidation, and it ceased operation in January 1905.
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| 9. | The stone statues were in 1870 replaced with spelter statues, and marble ( except for the top part with the capital ) replaced with limestone.
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| 10. | The Welsh Crown Spelter company still retained a few men on its books, to safeguard its assets, and a catalogue of these assets was prepared.
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