Gold, Platinum, Palladium, Silver - How to Test, Select, Care for Them

A full-colour guide for lay people and professionals about gold, platinum, palladium, silver, copper, bronze, brass, iron, titanium, niobium, aluminium, stainless steel, Damascus steel, tungsten carbide and cobalt chrome. This book explains how to test, buy, sell, and care for jewellery with precious and alternative metals. High-quality colour photographs show how these metals are creatively used in jewellery. Besides providing an historical perspective and interesting facts about the metals, this book discusses jewellery manufacturing methods, plating and responsible mining & business practices. You will learn: How to read the stamps on jewellery mountings; How to identify jewellery metals; How to determine the gold content in jewellery; How and where to sell your unwanted jewellery; How to spot a fair consignment contract; How to select refiners and prepare shipments to them; How to prevent and remove silver tarnish; How to clean metal jewellery.

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Diamond Select - Star Trek TOS Replica 2-Pack Gold Handle Phaser & Communicator E

'Enterprise, this is Kirk.' Get ready for the ultimate Star Trek adventure with this EE Exclusive Star Trek Original Series Classic Gold Phaser and Communicator set! With sound effects and clips from the groundbreaking sci-fi series, each of these limited edition collectibles features audio from the classic episodes and deluxe window-box packaging. These exclusive, life-size replicas aren't like anything else on the market today! The communicator has a glossy paint base and an actual metal antenna, while the phaser comes in an exclusive gold-handle version. Don't get caught on your next away mission without these handy lifesavers. Order yours and live the dream of owning your own Starfleet armory!

Along with beeping sounds, there are 9 different voice phrases on the communicator:

- 'Enterprise, this is Kirk.' (Captain Kirk)
- 'Spock here, Captain.' (Spock)
- 'Bridge here, Captain.'
- 'Transporter room ready to beam up.'
- 'Bridge, this is the captain.' (Captain Kirk)
- 'Enterprise to Mr. Spock.'
- 'Captain, shall I beam down an armed party?' (Spock, plays during call-back mode only)
- 'Scotty here, Captain.' (Scotty)
- EE exclusive bonus phrase! 'Your signal is very weak. can you turn up your gain?' (Spock)

Special functions include:

- Cycle through all 9 phrases! To play all the sayings from Kirk, Spock, Scotty, and Uhura, just press and hold the button under the blue light for 3 seconds.
- Be hailed by the Enterprise! Hold down the button under the red light for 5 seconds, and quickly close the communicator. A few seconds later, your communicator will start to beep and once you open it, Spock will ask if he can beam down an armed landing party.
- Quick flip-open activation! A motor inside the communicator will start spinning and an activation sequence will play when you flip open the gold communicator lid.

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