The silver bowl

This handmade silver bowl was brought back from a trip to SE Asia. I watched the artisan that created it. It's one of my favorite souvenirs. The design reminds me of the beautiful temples I saw all over Northern Thailand and Laos.

 

For those of you who like facts, I found these interesting:

-Silver kills bacteria by chemically affecting the cell membranes, breaking them down. Bacteria do not develop resistance to Silver, as they do to many antibiotics.

-In the United States, gold coins ceased to circulate as money with Roosevelt's 1933 call-in. However, the U.S. Mint continued to turn out silver coins until 1965.

-More than 95% of annual silver consumption is from industrial and decorative uses; photography, jewelry and silverware.

-In the earliest Egyptian records, Silver was considered more precious than Gold.

-Recent research shows that silver also promotes the production of new cells, increasing the rate of healing in wounds and bone. The regeneration of whole areas of lost skin is being accomplished by the use of silver treatment. Curad bandages, is marketing a line of wound-care products using silver as a natural antibacterial: Curad Silver.

-Argentina was named from Argentum, the element of Silver's Latin name.

 

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