A nice Chinese silver, this one has reasonably thick wires,
one of which is connecting two separate pieces of matrix. Really cheap for what it is! Dimensions are
from the tip of the longest wire, to the bottom point of the matrix.
I’m always weary of fake silver, I try to find specimens with wires running through/ frozen in their matrixes (preferably NOT acanthite because the wire growth can be induced—though natural ones do exist) or with random bits or rock clinging to the wires—preferably thicker and with some sedimentation and/or oxidation as this is harder to fake. As an example of why, at the shop a couple doors down from where I purchased this one, I was shown another two specimens with bright curly wires, on a suspiciously heavy and silver-rich matrix ….. I’d be willing to bet that was just a “sculpture,” real as it may have looked.