Whois & Analysis for montanasilversmiths.com

Montana Silversmiths is a jewelry and silver products seller located in Columbus, Montana.

They produce the hand-engraved trophy belt buckles that are awarded to the winners of the National Finals Rodeo each year.

The silver standard is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of silver.

The silver specie standard was widespread from the fall of the Byzantine Empire until the 19th century.

Following the discovery in the 16th century of large deposits of silver at the Cerro Rico in Potosí, Bolivia, an international silver standard came into existence in conjunction with the Spanish pieces of eight.

These silver dollar coins played the role of an international trading currency for nearly four hundred years.

Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it.

The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing images on paper as prints or illustrations; these images are also called engravings.

Wood engraving is a form of relief printing and is not covered in this article.

The Western world or the West is a term usually referring to different nations, depending on the context, most often including at least part of Europe.

There are many accepted definitions about what they all have in common.

The Western world is also known as the Occident (from Latin: occidens "sunset, West", as contrasted with Orient).

Jewellery or jewelry consists of small decorative items worn for personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, and bracelets.

Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes, and the term is restricted to durable ornaments, excluding flowers for example.

For many centuries metal, often combined with gemstones, has been the normal material for jewellery, but other materials such as shells and other plant materials may be used.

It is one of the oldest type of archaeological artefact – with 100,000-year-old beads made from Nassarius shells thought to be the oldest known jewellery.

The basic forms of jewellery vary between cultures but are often extremely long-lived; in European cultures the most common forms of jewellery listed above have persisted since ancient times, while other forms such as adornments for the nose or ankle, important in other cultures, are much less common.

Historically, the most widespread influence on jewellery in terms of design and style have come from Asia.