Buy a little bottle of silver test from a jeweller's supply house, it is cheap, it lasts forever, you only need a tiny drop for testing, & it can prevent costly error.
Other names for mamas are paktong, p'aitun, it is a nickel + copper + zinc alloy, Chinese in origin.
Similar, or maybe even the same as alpaka/albata, nickel silver, argentum, german silver, mailechort.
There has been a real lot of "silver" ornamented weaponry from Indonesia & SE Asia in general that has been sold into the Western World that is in fact ornamented with mamas.
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