Modern East Midlands-style lace-making bobbins, also being small, are often made of ebony and look particularly decorative when bound with brass or silver wire.

The current mace is nearly four feet tall and is composed of 13 ebony rods tied together with silver strands criss-crossed over the length of the pole.

It is 12 inches in length and made of ebony decorated with a silver crown and three bands of silver engraved with the Royal Arms at the top.

Other examples are luxurious and expensive art pieces, with hand-carved ebony or bog wood hilts, sterling silver fittings and may have pommels set with genuine cairngorm stones.

It forms the silver head of the ebony mace of the College, hanging in the Master's Office as the symbol of authority.

The main altar --" The Silver Altar "-- is a wooden triptych with an ebony veneer with sculptured reliefs in silver in ascending order of the Last Supper on the predella ; a large depiction of the Crucifixion of Christ between silver statues of Moses and John the Baptist in niches with small silver columns on either side ; of the Burial of Christ ( between silver statues of the evangelists Matthew and Mark ; of Christ's Harrowing of Hell ( between statues of the evangelists John and Luke ; and on the pediment at top of the triptych, a silver statue of the Risen Christ between two reclining soldiers.

Albino twins with vulture-like features and taloned hands, their only difference was that Kelmain dressed in black and wielded an ebony and silver staff in his right hand, while Lhoigor wore gold with a golden staff in his left hand.

These were often mounted in brass and delicately inlaid, with knobs of ivory, ebony or silver.

For instance, the kingdom advantage " Secret Order ", which gives a bonus to spies, requires the following trade goods: columns, statues, silver and dyes and the following exotic goods: ebony and ivory.

Two famous 7th century silver and enamel plaques from the hoard, one shown above, have a " Z-rod ", one of the Pictish symbols, in a particularly well-preserved and elegant form ; unfortunately few comparable pieces have survived.

" The items illustrated on their website ( all with maritime associations ) include metal curtain ties, a " lacquered papier-maché tray ", tapestries, small boxes for tobacco, snuff, cosmetics and other purposes, cut-paper pictures ( découpage ), small silver items, miniature paintings, a " Gilt-brass clock finial ", ceramic plaques, statuettes, cigarette boxes, plaquettes, a painted tray, a horse brass, a metal " pipe tamper ", a small glass painting, a fan, a handle plate from furniture, and various other items.

The grip plaques are typically made from bone, ivory, horn or silver, and spread out in two ' wings ' or ' ears ' to either side at the pommel ( a feature which prevents the hilt slipping out of the hand when used to cut ).

* The appearance: e. g., purpuric ( typical of vasculitis and meningococcal disease ), fine and like sandpaper ( typical of scarlet fever ); circular lesions with a central depression are typical of molluscum contagiosum ( and in the past, small pox ); plaques with silver scales are typical of psoriasis.

These are two sets of ten plaques, one each of gold, of silver, of bronze, of faience, of sun-dried Nile mud, and five of opaque glass.

The series won two silver plaques in Chicago for the episodes Scarlet Cinema and The Sweetest Sting.

The symbols are found on some of the extremely rare survivals of Pictish jewellery, such as the pair of silver plaques from the Norrie's Law hoard found in Fife in the early 19th century,

The inscription, engraved on plain silver plaques, runs round the border and the spaces between cross and border have four engraved figures of the crucified Christ, Virgin and Child, a bishop making a blessing gesture, and a cleric holding a book ( possibly St John ).

The Celtiberian inscriptions were made on different object types ( silver and bronze coins, ceramic recipients, bronze plaques and tesseras, amphores, stones, spindle-whorls etc .).

The offerings to Senuna include silver plaques with gold highlights, seven gold plaques and a superb set of jewellery, including a brooch and cloak clasps.

Senile plaques as seen with a silver stain.

Senile plaques are visible in light microscopy after staining by silver, Congo red, Thioflavin, cresyl violet, PAS-reaction, and by fluorescence and immunofluorescence microscopy.

The Peiping Chinese were the only major silver seller in the world markets who stopped selling the metal on Monday morning, November 27, anticipating by two days the announcement of the U.S. Treasury that the pegged offering price will be removed.

" An aluminum identification tag, the size of a silver half dollar and of suitable thickness, stamped with the name, rank, company, regiment, or corps of the wearer, will be worn by each officer and enlisted man of the Army whenever the field kit is worn, the tag to be suspended from the neck, underneath the clothing, by a cord or thong passed through a small hole in the tab.

" But anyway, it's the kind of blue, I am told, that will match with silver.

While black-and-white film has no color temperature itself, the silver halide grains themselves tend to be slightly more responsive to blue light, and therefore will have daylight and tungsten speeds-e. g.

According to White House and Congressional Budget Office figures, the maximum share of income that enrollees would have to pay for the " silver " healthcare plan would vary depending on their income relative to the federal poverty level, as follows: for families with income 133 – 150 % of FPL will be 3-4 % of income, for families with income of 150 – 200 % of FPL will be 4-6. 3 % of income, for families with income 200 – 250 % of FPL will be 6. 3-8. 05 % of income, for families with income 250-300 % of FPL will be 8. 05-9. 5 % of income, for families with income from 300 to 400 % of FPL will be 9. 5 % of income.

Britain ’ s exports are harder to detect archaeologically, but will have included metals, such as silver and gold and some lead, iron and copper.

The tin ( II ) chloride is applied because silver will not bond with the glass.

Historically this has led to its use for plating metals such as iron and brass, to its use for chemical apparatus, and its use in certain alloys that will retain a high silvery polish, such as German silver.

Petrarch's will ( dated April 4, 1370 ) leaves 50 florins to Boccaccio " to buy a warm winter dressing gown "; various legacies ( a horse, a silver cup, a lute, a Madonna ) to his brother and his friends ; his house in Vaucluse to its caretaker ; for his soul, and for the poor ; and the bulk of his estate to his son-in-law, Francescuolo da Brossano, who is to give half of it to " the person to whom, as he knows, I wish it to go "; presumably his daughter, Francesca, Brossano's wife.

However, it is widely agreed that there is no " silver bullet " ― that is, no single approach that will prevent project overruns and failures in all cases.

The Kohen will often give those silver coins back as a gift for the child to inherit.

This negative reaction to silver is sometimes so strong that the mere touch of the metal on a werewolf's skin will cause burns.

This occasion marks the beginning of the Spanish silver trade to China that will trump that of the Portuguese, the latter of whom acted as an intermediary between the silver mines of Japan and the luxury items in China to be purchased with that silver.

* From this year until 1650, sixteen million kilograms of silver and 185, 000 kilograms of gold will enter the port of Seville.

* 1287 – The Altar of St. James at the Cathedral of San Zeno in Pistoia, Italy — a masterwork of the silversmithing trade containing nearly a ton of silver — is begun ; it will not be completed for nearly 200 years.

The name silver mirror test arises because this reaction will produce a precipitate of silver whose presence can be used to test for the presence of an aldehyde.

In their search for what turned out to be the right breakfast china but the wrong table silver, they opened every cupboard door in the kitchen and pantry.

He pondered for a moment as to why a plate of silver coins would be out in the desert where no one else travels.

The 4th century BC writer Theopompus, quoted by Strabo, describes how heating earth from Andeira in Turkey produced " droplets of false silver ", probably metallic zinc, which could be used to turn copper into oreichalkos.

This resulted in a number of years during which sterling silver costume jewelry was produced and some can still be found in today's vintage jewelry marketplace.

For example, Panama and El Salvador have declared U. S. currency to be legal tender, and from 1791 – 1857, Spanish silver coins were legal tender in the United States.

The two sides of each vane must be thermally insulated to some degree so that the silver or white side does not immediately reach the temperature of the black side.

Some people also prefer to have the information on their tags transferred to a smaller, sometimes golden or silver tag by a jeweler, as the original tag can be considered too large and bulky by some.

During the Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 ), the Chinese used a silver canister where written lots could be drawn that designated which player had to drink and specifically how much ; for example, from 1, 5, 7, or 10 measures of drink that the youngest player, or the last player to join the game, or the most talkative player, or the host, or the player with the greatest alcohol tolerance, etc.

" Being therefore the offspring of God, we must not suppose the divinity to be like unto gold, or silver, or stone, the graving of art, and device of man.

In difficult cases, the silver carboxylate may be used, since the silver ion coordinates to the halide aiding its departure and improving the reaction rate.

This second kind of elf cross one was worn as a pendant in a necklace and in order to have sufficient magic it had to be forged during three evenings with silver from nine different sources of inherited silver.

His home is Glitnir, its name, meaning " shining ," referring to its silver ceiling and golden pillars, which radiated light that could be seen from a great distance.

This was the point at which the silver and gold treasure of Peru had to be landed and sent overland to the Caribbean Sea, where galleons from Spain would pick it up at the town of Nombre de Dios.

Common colored gold alloys such as rose gold can be created by the addition of various amounts of copper and silver, as indicated in the triangular diagram to the left.

One of the most volatile issues of the 1880s was whether the currency should be backed by gold and silver, or by gold alone.

DNA may be visualized using ethidium bromide which, when intercalated into DNA, fluoresce under ultraviolet light, while protein may be visualised using silver stain or Coomassie Brilliant Blue dye.