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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bakersgma, post: 252527, member: 59&quot;]I assume you got the PGS=Plated German Silver from this site?</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.silvercollection.it/electroplatesilverNOPtre.html#PGS" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.silvercollection.it/electroplatesilverNOPtre.html#PGS" rel="nofollow">http://www.silvercollection.it/electroplatesilverNOPtre.html#PGS</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;German silver&quot; has nothing to do with Germany or a German maker. It&#039;s a generic term for a non-silver alloy (of various recipes) used as a substitute base metal for items to be plated or sometimes as a &quot;white metal&quot; without plating. Other terms include &quot;alpacca&quot; (mostly used in European countries and &quot;blanc metal&quot; (literally white metal) in France. </p><p><br /></p><p>Given that the crown and fleur de lis are not uncommon in the maker&#039;s marks of other British firms, so I have no reason to believe that this is not UK production.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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