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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 1572259, member: 59"]Never plated over steel. The older US plated wares had a base metal of an alloy called "german silver" (which contained no silver at all.) It was also called names like "white metal." By the time of WWI the name was changed by many makers to "nickel silver."</p><p><br /></p><p>In Europe similar alloys are often called "alpacca." </p><p><br /></p><p>A nice benefit of using this "white alloy" as the base is that as the plating started to wear down, the wear spots were not as obvious.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some lower end lines of flatware were made completely of this alloy as a "silver substitute" and were not plated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 1572259, member: 59"]Never plated over steel. The older US plated wares had a base metal of an alloy called "german silver" (which contained no silver at all.) It was also called names like "white metal." By the time of WWI the name was changed by many makers to "nickel silver." In Europe similar alloys are often called "alpacca." A nice benefit of using this "white alloy" as the base is that as the plating started to wear down, the wear spots were not as obvious. Some lower end lines of flatware were made completely of this alloy as a "silver substitute" and were not plated.[/QUOTE]
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