What is paste?

While diamonds last forever, they are expensive and relatively hard to come by, especially at greater sizes. The same goes for most other natural gemstones; they are demanding to find, and even if the quality […]

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Is there lead in my antique jewellery?

Lead can be present in most if not all older alloys (including gold!), as people in ye olden days simply didn’t know how dangerous it was. Old paste jewellery will also contain lead (just like […]

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