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Terms vs Paktong - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and paktong

is that terms is while paktong is an alloy of zinc, copper and nickel, closely resembling silver, of chinese origin; any of a number of similar alloys developed in imitation of the chinese product.

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  • An alloy of zinc, copper and nickel, closely resembling silver, of Chinese origin; any of a number of similar alloys developed in imitation of the Chinese product.
  • * 1980 , James Thomas Herbert Baily, The Connoisseur: an Illustrated Magazine for Collectors , Volume 205, page 108,
    • Chinese export metalwork consists almost entirely of three categories: silverware; pewterware; and paktong , an alloy of zinc, copper and nickel, closely resembling silver, which the Chinese also described as tutenague, and which was probably worked by white metalsmiths also making pewter.
  • * 1928 , The Metal industry , Volume 31, page 227,
    • Many German-silver paktongs were soon flourishing under a variety of trade names,
  • * 1995 , Duncan R. Hook, David R. M. Gaimster, British Museum. Dept. of Scientific Research, Trade and Discovery: The Scientific Study of Artefacts from Post-Medieval Europe and Beyond , page 265,
    • From the surviving descriptions it seems likely that during the later eighteenth century most paktong items were sold (in England at least) misleadingly under the name tutenag.