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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;J Dagger, post: 2336298, member: 10944&quot;]Nice looking mug! To me this doesn’t look overtly plated. It looks like it could go either way to me. However it’s VERY heavy for a cup. I’ve never had a silver mug but all the silver drinking vessels I’ve come across are usually quite light in weight. I’ve never seen one even close to that heavy. My experience isn’t incredible but it sounds very heavy to me for being silver. That would be my biggest concern. I didn’t know you could use 18k Acid to test silver, interesting and good to know if true. I haven’t acid tested silver much but when I have I don’t have good luck on a stone. Gold works great on a stone but unfortunately with silver on the piece itself seems to work better. Some plated goods, especially the older ones have a pretty substantial layer of silver. You really have to file into them to get a clean reading. Otherwise you can get a false positive. Leaving the acid on for a long time will eventually eat through plating too. I once got a positive for a quite a while until the acid finally got down past the heavy plating to the base metal. Good luck! Hope it’s the real McCoy. Nothing better than cheap silver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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