[Osmf-talk] Chairperson's Report for the AGM

[john whelan]

I think it depends on where you live.  Silver tarnishes when exposed to
some types of air pollution.  It has been used for coinage in the past but
realistically the $12 would come out of the ten year fee which means so
much less for OSMF.

A ten year membership fee? or perhaps a five year one?  Both of these I
would support they lower the cost of annual membership transaction fees on
both sides.

Cheerio John

On 10 December 2016 at 08:09, Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch>
wrote:

> On 10.12.16 12:00, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>
>
> 2016-12-10 9:09 GMT+01:00 Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch>:
>
>> I would also suggest to issue ten years membership card in pure silver
>> with a name of a member. There are companies which produce such metal
>> membership cards [2]. The current price of Sterling Silver is $14.18 per
>> Ounce (oz), or $0.5 Per Gram (g). Sterling silver is defined as 92.5% pure
>> silver (that is why there is a tiny stamp "925").
>>
>> One membership card from pure silver weighs 24 grams [3]. It means the
>> price of the precious metal itself for one card is only $ 12.00. On this
>> particular website a silver membership card costs really a lot, because it
>> is plated with white gold and rodium. Such a plating is not necessary in
>> our case.
>>
>
>
> I had a look into Osmium, unfortunately it is very, very expensive ;-)
> 30gr are around 22000 EUR.
>
> Depleted uranium on the other hand is very cheap but impressively dense,
> almost twice the density of lead, imagine how breathtaking it would be to
> issue hand engraved uranium membership cards, given the same size I'm sure
> they would feel incredibly heavy and precious. They could be delivered
> molten into a glass capsule in a nice lead containment, and could be passed
> on from generation to generation, surely a glimpse on eternity (given a
> half-life of 4.5 billion years). I haven't yet received the detailed prices
> for materials and production but at this point I am still confident it
> would be competible to your solution, and hardly beatable in uniqueness.
>
> Just some food for thought ;-)
>
> On an even more serious sidetrack: if we were to make "special" membership
> cards, what about a hologram with some map stuff? Those silver plates tend
> to oxidise ;-)
> And why limit them to 10 years?
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> Dear Martin,
>
> Osmium, let alone Uranium, are extremely toxic. But silver is used even in
> healthcare. It does not oxidize much. I just made a photo of a memorial
> medal with the maps of Düsseldorf and Odessa
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwIBJzM0u50qX3JhUTNVRGlTRmc . This
> medal, including engraved maps, is made from pure silver. I did not touch
> it for several years, and it is possible to see on the photo that it did
> not oxidize much. There is something about silver what makes it precious by
> look and feel, and it has been so for millenniums.
>
> I think the membership card should be of the usual card format: 85.5mm x
> 54.0mm (3.3″ x 2.1″), thickness (approx): 0.45mm. In my opinion, any
> plastic including a hologram, would just cheapen a pure silver card. But I
> may err, - a lot depends on a design, on the silversmith; perhaps a
> hologram may be included indeed.
>
> I would not call it "special" cards, but rather just ten years membership
> card. It would be obviously too difficult to pay for, issue, and distribute
> such a card each year.
>
> With best regards,
>
> Oleksiy
>
>
>
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