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Sterling silver

An alloy of silver that, when used for jewelry in Great Britain, usually has a fineness of 0,925 parts of silver and 0,075 parts copper. In the USA it is 0,921 parts silver.

From: An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry, autor: Harold Newman, publishers: Thames and Hudson