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Newly Manufactured Brasses
Newly manufactured brasses are usually a result of casting because of the lower production cost. Nickel and German silver (brass with a little silver added) has also been used for making decorative pieces on harness. Modern brasses copying old designs are seldom so well finished as their earlier counterparts; neither does modern brass tend to hold its polish for so long. Although fakes do exist it would be true to say that most modern brasses do not pretend to be anything other than what they are.
Newly manufactured brasses are usually a result of casting because of the lower production cost. Nickel and German silver (brass with a little silver added) has also been used for making decorative pieces on harness. Modern brasses copying old designs are seldom so well finished as their earlier counterparts; neither does modern brass tend to hold its polish for so long. Although fakes do exist it would be true to say that most modern brasses do not pretend to be anything other than what they are.
