Copper

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Copper is a soft, salmon-pink coloured metal, commonly used for water piping. It is extremely conductive and it is alloyed with zinc to make brass, and with tin and other metals to make bronze. Copper is one of the seven 'metals of antiquity', along with gold, silver, tin, lead, iron and mercury. These were the metals that humans were known to have used in prehistoric times. 

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Copper and silver abstract sculpture by Nan Nan Liu

Copper and silver abstract sculpture by Nan Nan Liu
£11,000
'The Water Carrier', Orientalist bronze sculpture by Debut

'The Water Carrier', Orientalist bronze sculpture by Debut
£8,500
Engraved gilt copper and ivory antique Italian casket

Engraved gilt copper and ivory antique Italian casket
£22,000
18th Century Ottoman gilt copper ewer and basin

18th Century Ottoman gilt copper ewer and basin
£28,000
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