Nickel plated then brass plated and coated with lacquer to give these pins a shiny finish. The lacquer coating makes these pins tarnish resistant. These pins have a brushed gold finish, and are not as shiny as the gold pins listed above. These pins are less expensive to manufacture than the shiny gold pins. Gold wire is solid brass.
Silver wire is tinned copper.
Both are tarnish resistant and are much better quality than any imported wire that we have seen.