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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 361843, member: 111&quot;]A recently acquired late 19th-early 20th century Danish mother-of-pearl bowl spoon with a silverplate handle - it would certainly be worth more if silver, but frankly I like this one because of the Dragestil engraving, and even the honest wear to brass base metal isn&#039;t unattractive to my eye.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]123645[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]123646[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Have seen several posts here recently dismissing silverplate as worthless, and thought it might be useful to point out that silverplate can often have considerable value.&nbsp; There will always be silver snobs who thumb their noses at anything less than sterling (even lower standard silver), but anyone who truly appreciates silver will understand value is also in design, quality and desirability.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There is varying, and sometimes quite good value in silverplate - for example, in American silver, the extravagant and novelty Victorian pieces can bring very good prices, small figural pieces like napkin rings can sell in the hundreds, while later 20th century novelty cocktail shakers can bring thousands.&nbsp; Grape pattern flatware still brings good prices though not as high as they used to, and the often unmarked 1909 &#039;Antique Egyptian&#039; (Scarab) pattern sells very well, especially if marked &#039;Cafe Opéra&#039; for the restaurant E.H.H. Smith originally had the pattern designed for (recent sales: service of 47 pcs,/$2200.00, single spoon/$122.50), other hotelware/serviceware can also bring in decent prices, depending on piece and the establishment where used (I once sold a dozen fairly modern Anheuser Busch forks for almost $200.)</p><p><br /></p><p>High quality French silverplate by Christofle, Ercuis, etc. often brings better prices than some comparable sterling by other manufacturers; silverplate pieces by the German WMF and the Austrian Wiener Werkstätte bring excellent prices, based on the beautiful design work, as with the British silverplate designs of Christopher Dresser;and Old Sheffield Plate (fused plate) continues to maintain a very good value.&nbsp; Given a choice of the same item in solid silver or silverplate, would certainly prefer the silver, but while there is definitely a good amount of silverplate that has very little value, to just denigrate an item because it&#039;s &#039;only plated&#039; isn&#039;t necessarily a good idea...</p><p><br /></p><p>Silverplate aesthetic era pitcher by Tufts, sold for $2200:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]123648[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Silverplate Jugendstil champagne cooler by WMF, sold for $4495:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]123649[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Silverplate Secessionist basket by Wiener Werkstätte, sold for $2981:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]123651[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Silverplate Christopher Dresser designed egg cup stand by Hukin &amp; Heath, sold for $5935:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]123652[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And this silverplate Christopher Dresser coffee pot that sold for in 2014 for £97,250:&nbsp; <a href="https://www.lyonandturnbull.com/news-article/auction-result-unique-christopher-dresser-coffee-pot-reaches-%C2%A397250" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.lyonandturnbull.com/news-article/auction-result-unique-christopher-dresser-coffee-pot-reaches-%C2%A397250" rel="nofollow">https://www.lyonandturnbull.com/news-article/auction-result-unique-christopher-dresser-coffee-pot-reaches-£97250</a></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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