{"id":7341,"date":"2014-02-03T17:04:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T01:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/?p=7341"},"modified":"2023-02-22T14:36:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T22:36:23","slug":"mystery-guest-answers-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/03\/mystery-guest-answers-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Guest &#8211; Answers and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the answers to my recent <a href=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/01\/who-is-the-mystery-guest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mystery Guest<\/a> posting:<\/p>\n<p>In group 1: The mystery metal is the square on the top left in the first photo; on the far right in the second photo. The rest are silver.<\/p>\n<p>In group 2: The mystery metal is the two trillion-shaped lentils (top two in the first photo). The other two are silver.<\/p>\n<p>In group 3: The mystery metal is the triangular-shaped hollow form. The rock is White Bronze. The rest are silver.<\/p>\n<p>In group 4: The mystery metal is the one on top in photo 1 and the one on the bottom in photo 2. The piece with the windows is White Bronze. The third piece is silver.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend I made molds from two pieces that I made from silver a few years ago. I pressed the mystery metals against the molds and fired them. They shrank about 30%, just like the original PMC.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the pieces, photographed on a gray card, side by side (the bigger one is silver):<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7342\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/t-15.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/t-15-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"1\" title=\"1\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7342\" srcset=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/t-15-300x179.jpg 300w, http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/t-15.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7343\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/t-15a.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/t-15a-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"2\" title=\"2\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7343\" srcset=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/t-15a-300x167.jpg 300w, http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/t-15a.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7344\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/t-19a.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/t-19a-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"3\" title=\"3\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7344\" srcset=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/t-19a-300x237.jpg 300w, http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/t-19a.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7345\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/t-19.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/t-19-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"4\" title=\"4\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7345\" srcset=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/t-19-300x233.jpg 300w, http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/t-19.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Then I photographed a mystery metal piece next to a steel piece:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7346\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/t-18.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/t-18-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"5\" title=\"5\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7346\" srcset=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/t-18-300x171.jpg 300w, http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/t-18.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7347\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/t-18a.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/t-18a-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"6\" title=\"6\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7347\" srcset=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/t-18a-300x160.jpg 300w, http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/t-18a.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the answers to my recent Mystery Guest posting: In group 1: The mystery metal is the square on the top left in the first photo; on the far right in the second photo. The rest are silver. In group 2: The mystery metal is the two trillion-shaped lentils (top two in the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7341"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9366,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7341\/revisions\/9366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}