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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 106771, member: 111&quot;]Not in the area of production like you, but there is actually a good deal of Scandinavian silver found here in the U.S., and it&#039;s been a completely different experience for me - probably have a couple of hundred pieces of late 19th to mid 20th century Scandinavian silver in my collection, both solid silver and plated, and have sold even more over the years, and while I&#039;ve never taken steel wool to any piece, can&#039;t recall any of those with plating wear showing anything other than nickel silver base metal.&nbsp; Just as a note, copper is the source of the antibacterial qualities of both brass and nickel silver, and there isn&#039;t usually much difference in the amount of copper found in those alloys - silver, also typically alloyed with copper for working, has its own antibacterial qualities, including use in colloidal form as an antibiotic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kronesølv-Fabrikerne offered their solid silver and silverplated wares to the public, without a middleman, they were a manufacturer, also offering special orders on request.&nbsp; &#039;English Plate&#039; was just a marketing term, there are different classic Danish patterns like &#039;Dobbeltriflet&#039; and &#039;Empire&#039; on the page referenced - and the items in the catalog are of Danish manufacture.&nbsp; I have seen the two-tower mark on foreign-made flatware bearing an assumed retailer mark &#039;TB&#039;, a piece in my collection is German, not marked as such, but identifiable by pattern, the same &#039;TB&#039; and two-tower mark was found on a set of American silverplate flatware, the pattern introduced in 1911.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Empire pattern from the same 1914 catalog, offered as three-tower solid silver, or as plate on Nysølv, offering 15, 20, or 25 year warranties, depending on the quality of plating:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]26904[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Below is a circa 1930 Cohr silverplate on nickel silver cigarette box (not mine, wish it was), marked with their &#039;ATLA&#039; trademark, the two-towers, &#039;ALP&#039; for alpacca, the &#039;FDG&#039; trade association torch-mark for silverplate, and the &#039;Danske Arbejde&#039; mark.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]26905[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]26906[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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