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<p>[QUOTE="Houseful, post: 868982, member: 1067"]The last pic was taken before it was cleaned. It has a few scratches but no bubbling raised corrosion or black marks that wouldn’t clean off.</p><p>Presumably testing 900 or 800 silver gives the same red mark after testing? It feels thin enough not to be plate but I’m not 100% sure, I will do more tests as Marie suggests. I hadn’t thought about Asian, thank you, I’ll look into that.</p><p>I took a little chance on it for £4 so I think I got a good bargain whatever it turns out to be.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Houseful, post: 868982, member: 1067"]The last pic was taken before it was cleaned. It has a few scratches but no bubbling raised corrosion or black marks that wouldn’t clean off. Presumably testing 900 or 800 silver gives the same red mark after testing? It feels thin enough not to be plate but I’m not 100% sure, I will do more tests as Marie suggests. I hadn’t thought about Asian, thank you, I’ll look into that. I took a little chance on it for £4 so I think I got a good bargain whatever it turns out to be.[/QUOTE]
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