1. To test for spelter , scratch the base of the piece. 2. The Kenricks also owned a spelter ( zinc ) works at nearby Copperas. 3. Bronze will appear as bright yellow while spelter will show a silvery scratch. 4. Spelter : zinc cast as less expensive, lighter figurines than those of bronze.5. Zinc is also referred to in nonscientific contexts as " spelter ". 6. Spelter is soft and breaks easily.7. Early twentieth-century Art Nouveau and Art Deco figures and lamps were often made of spelter . 8. The Welsh Crown Spelter Company went into voluntary liquidation, and it ceased operation in January 1905. 9. The stone statues were in 1870 replaced with spelter statues, and marble ( except for the top part with the capital ) replaced with limestone. 10. The Welsh Crown Spelter company still retained a few men on its books, to safeguard its assets, and a catalogue of these assets was prepared.
