Historical Techniques: Cold Gilding

Abstract

An historal technique of goldplating, described in 18th century literature, was reproduced. This cold-plating technique uses salts of gold, produced by dissolving gold in aqua regia. these salts are then rubbed onto a silver surfaces. Test prove that with this technique a thin goldlayer can be created on silver, though due to the small thickness it can not stand much wear.

Keywords

• gold
• metallurgy
• newer era
• newest era
• the netherlands