Curved german silver hair pin

A beautiful and unique curved german silver hair pin. It is ideal to use as a hair holder for long hair or as hair jewelry accessory. German silver is not silver , it's an alloy of copper, zinc and nickel and has silver-white color. Available also in copper and brass. The wire has been shaped by hand. The edges have been filed round and sanded, so it has no sharp edges. Then it was highly polished and cleaned and lastly waxed so that the hair pin shines for a long time. Basic metals patinas...