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Some legislature trivia on provincial government budget day! Why does the legislature have a mace and where did it come from?
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The @NSLeg mace was donated anonymously to the House on March 5, 1930 but the donor's name - Chief Justice Robert Edward Harris - was released after his death in 1931.
It is gilded sterling silver - #silver with a thin layer of #gold - four feet tall and weighs 18 pounds.
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It is gilded sterling silver - #silver with a thin layer of #gold - four feet tall and weighs 18 pounds.
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The mace was made in England by Elkington and Co. which pioneered electroplating in the 1830s, a process that bonds thin layers of a metal to the surface of another metal at the molecular level. Plating is often done to dress up a cheaper metal or to make it more durable.
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