Gold & Silver Plated Idols

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Gold and silver plated idols Our largest collection and the one most often bought as a gift. It is also the corner of the market with the loosest language, so this page explains exactly what a plated idol is before it tries to sell you one. If you came looking for a gold murti A great many people arrive here having searched for a gold idol or a gold Ganpati murti, meaning the metal rather than the colour, so it is worth answering that first and plainly. These are not solid gold. Nothing sold as a household murti in India realistically is. A solid gold idol of any size is a bullion object, priced by weight against the daily gold rate, and it lives in a bank locker or a temple treasury rather than on a mandir shelf. The same is true of solid silver at any meaningful size: it exists, it is sold by jewellers, it is priced by weight, and it is a different purchase from this one. What is here is real gold and real silver, laid down as a surface over a body made of something else. That is what lets a piece be sharply detailed, light enough to put on a wall shelf, and affordable enough to give away. If it is bullion you want, buy from a jeweller and expect to pay the metal price. If it is the look of gold on a well-made murti, this is the right page. What plating actually is Our plated pieces are built in three layers. A resin core, a layer of copper over that, then gold or silver electroplated on top, and on many pieces both. The copper is the part nobody mentions and it is the reason the rest works. Resin does not conduct electricity, so it cannot be electroplated directly; the copper is deposited first, and that is what the gold or silver keys onto. It is also what gives the surface its evenness. A plated finish that goes on unevenly is usually a plating job that skipped or rushed that step. We say resin plainly because much of this market does not, and it is common to find idols marketed in heavy precious-metal language where the substrate is disclosed in a spec field,

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