Talk:antique brass

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A colour, apparently. Equinox ◑ 15:51, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

I had a look on Google Books, and the best I found were:

• 1929 Metal industry, Metal Industry Pub. Co., Volume 24, p158

  Most parts are hammered sheet brass and all require antique brass color.

• 1950 American builder, Volume 72, Simmons-Boardman Pub. Corp., p64

  [...] r alloy, rustproof and finished in antique brass color.

• 1998 Desire Smith, Fashionable clothing from the Sears catalogs: early 1970s, Schiffer Pub. Ltd., p82

  Leather belt with double row of holes all around. Antique brass-color buckle with double hooks.

Ackatsis 07:00, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

I don't think the 1998 quote is talking about something that is antique brass coloured, just an antique that is brass-coloured.

1. • 2007, J. G. Weddie, 97 Evergreen West‎^[1], AuthorHouse, →ISBN, Chapter 18, page 212:

     It was antique brass in color, and had the logo and unite designation on one side, and a helicopter relief of the same make and model we had just flown on the reverse.

I think that one fits the bill though. Thryduulf (talk) 09:48, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

"Antique brass color" does not imply that "antique brass" is a colour, only that it has a colour. A book calling something "sky colour" does not imply the existence of a colour called "sky". Equinox ◑ 16:30, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Right. The Weddie quote works, though, no?​—msh210℠ (talk) 16:08, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Yes, it does. I also think some of the this at google books:"black and antique brass" are good, though it's hard to be certain that they mean antique brass color. They certainly don't mean literal antique brass, but they might mean brass that's made to look antique (as here), in which I'm not sure if that counts.
Regardless, there is some idiomatic sense here, unless we're missing a sense at [[antique]].
—Ruakh_TALK 22:25, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

So, (barely) RFV-pass? - -sche (discuss) 03:58, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

How could we tell whether the color in the color patch was the color being referred to? Was it the same in 1929 as in 1998? The same in all contexts? It's hard enough with the definitions of words using other words in contexts of words. Aren't we dependent on color theorists, color scholars, and color historians to a far greater extent than we depend on the comparable word professionals? DCDuring TALK

Can we at least say that it is similar to brass, but darker? — Pingku^dimmi 08:48, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

I have removed the patch and added ", but darker" to the definitions. - -sche (discuss) 02:59, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

I am going to call this RFV-passed as cited, with its new, vague definition. - -sche (discuss) 00:37, 18 August 2011 (UTC)