Aimpon Jewellery/Jewelry - Five Metals - Madurai Jewellery

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My wife bought aimpon anklet from Madurai last time from a Madurai jewellery shop when we visited Madurai. Aimpon was very cheap and it was around Rs.200 to Rs.300 only approximately. It was completely gold in color, but it is not actually gold. It actually looked good. But, after couple of days of use - it lost its color and it is not even like the gold covering jewelry. The anklet became completely like dark copper metal now.

I became curious and was checking out what does this metal contain. Yes, as the name says - it is Five Metals composition. Gold, Silver, Copper, Brass and Here is the description -

ஐம்பொன (aimpon)

the five kinds of metals:

பொன் — gold
வெள்ளி — silver
செம்பு — copper
பித்தளை — brass
ஈயம் — lead

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LTTE logo designed by Madurai artist

Did you know LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam)'s logo was designed and prepared by a Madurai artist in the first place?

Yes, I was surprised too to know this.

The logo of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the flag of the putative independent state of Tamil Eelam in north-east Sri Lanka were conceived by the movement’s founder-leader Velupillai Prabhakaran. But it was an artist from Madurai in Tamil Nadu who gave concr­ete shape to them for the first time.

In 1976, Prabhakaran had sket­ched the LTTE emblem in his mind. While in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, he got an Indian artist to draw it. He told him his idea: the head of a roaring tiger, paws outstretched, with two rifles and 33 bullets set against a circle ringing the tiger’s head. When the artist showed him the sketch, Prabhakaran was happy and appro­ved it.

Madurai artist's contribution to LTTE excites me!

TamilNation.org, ExpressBuzz.com, IndianExpress.com and DailyMirror.com talks about it more.