Back in tinsel's early days, 17th-century German artisans would hammer real silver into thin sheets and then cut into strips for sparkling metallic garlands. The silver was beautiful but tarnished very easily. Not quite the same as your modern-day polyvinyl chloride film coated with a metallic finish. But if this wreath was real silver, it would be one valuable Round and probably not hanging on the fence outside.

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