  The Story of Pinchbeck  [Editor's Note:  In 1912,  MacIver
Percival published a wonderful book "Chats on Old Jewellery and
Trinkets".  Among chapters on ancient,  Medieval and
contemporary jewelry was the following brief history of the
"curious and ingenious metal" of Christopher Pinchbeck.] Almost
every dealer who keeps antique jewellery as part of his stock, 
has a tray of various oddments in which we may count on finding
a fair number of pieces on which he bestows the name of
"Pinchbeck."  As a matter of fact,  as a rule the name is not
rightly applied to one-tenth of them;  but it has become almost
a general term for all jewellery made out of substitutes for
gold,  so I have followed the general custom and headed this
chapter with this title.  Under this generic name are included
all alloys which have had originally,  and preserve to a certain
extent,  a colour which bears a close resemblance to gold.  They
have been given at different times various fancy names,  such as
Tombac,  Prince's Metal and Mosa