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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Very large Persian damascened copper and tin bucket

Very large Persian damascened copper and tin bucket
£9,500
Copper mounted veneered wood Chinese box with bone plaques

Copper mounted veneered wood Chinese box with bone plaques
£7,500
18th Century Ottoman gilt copper ewer and basin

18th Century Ottoman gilt copper ewer and basin
£28,000
Three large religious-themed patinated copper relief panels

Three large religious-themed patinated copper relief panels
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