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<p>[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 9567073, member: 111"]Have to say, after almost half a century of collecting, selling, and researching silver, flatware in particular (have a fairly extensive library, as well as thousands of period ads, catalogs, etc.), can't recall seeing manufacturers of silver tableware offering rhodium plated goods, though there may have been a few who dabbled with it early on in its use. While it was certainly done after market from the mid '30s ('Rhodanizing'), given the tendency for rhodium plating to wear, sometimes with chipping and peeling, in addition to the additional expense, wasting it on silver tableware, whether flatware or holloware, which typically incurs somewhat heavy usage, was and is pretty unlikely for the makers - and the bright shine not always desirable, also preventing the intentional oxidation for effect done on so much silver tableware. It was very much done on both silver and white gold jewelry from the 1930s on - and just as a note, for those who use 'magnet tests', probably shouldn't toss marked mid-20th century sterling jewelry as fake because it's magnetic, rhodium plating was (and often still is) typically underplated with nickel which is ferromagnetic, charms and light chains can often have a fairly strong pull...</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 9567073, member: 111"]Have to say, after almost half a century of collecting, selling, and researching silver, flatware in particular (have a fairly extensive library, as well as thousands of period ads, catalogs, etc.), can't recall seeing manufacturers of silver tableware offering rhodium plated goods, though there may have been a few who dabbled with it early on in its use. While it was certainly done after market from the mid '30s ('Rhodanizing'), given the tendency for rhodium plating to wear, sometimes with chipping and peeling, in addition to the additional expense, wasting it on silver tableware, whether flatware or holloware, which typically incurs somewhat heavy usage, was and is pretty unlikely for the makers - and the bright shine not always desirable, also preventing the intentional oxidation for effect done on so much silver tableware. It was very much done on both silver and white gold jewelry from the 1930s on - and just as a note, for those who use 'magnet tests', probably shouldn't toss marked mid-20th century sterling jewelry as fake because it's magnetic, rhodium plating was (and often still is) typically underplated with nickel which is ferromagnetic, charms and light chains can often have a fairly strong pull... ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]
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