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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 8494, member: 25&quot;]As an afterthought, Sheffield Plate (using the term correctly, now often called Old Sheffield Plate) was the same principle as rolled gold, copper and silver bonded together as thick sheet, then rolled out thin enough&nbsp; to use like sheet silver. This made possible a silver plate like result before electricity was available for electroplating. </p><p><br /></p><p>Obviously the pre-rolled material was made as a sandwich of silver/copper/silver as is most rolled gold, hence the &#039;gold filled&#039; term with &#039;sandwich&#039; dropped but implied.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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