Well then if you feel that way , don't just be negative ....correct it !! ( or get a mod to delete the whole thread.........)
Like Bakersgma, I've never encountered filled silver. Phil Silvers yes, but not filled silver. However, there maybe one to two things of which I am not yet aware. Of course there are a zillion variations on that original diagram, but I think the basic point is made.
Hi, When I hear silver filled it is usually a heavier desposit on wear areas, like the bottom of a spoon where it touches the table. greg
I have a couple of pieces of silver marked 'filled' but in the case of silver it means that the item is filled in the base (usually) with some substance to stabilise and strengthen it, commonly found in candlestick bases although I have a reproduction of a Donatello bronze plaque in silver where the backing is 'filled'. The nearest you will get in silver to the typical 'goldfilled', the metals fused and rolled, is in Old Sheffield Plate, produced in the early 19th C. before electroplating was invented. Not to be confused with the later use of Sheffield plate which often means only electroplated in Sheffield. You will not find old Sheffield plate, as silver bonded to copper after about 1840-1850. The silver to copper ratio of old Sheffield plate was similar to the continuing values for rolled gold, what you call 'goldfilled', but nowadays after a couple of hundred years the silver on OSP has usually worn very thin to nothing at all, leaving copper showing. The initial post is broadly speaking correct, except really only gold is offered this way now. The distinction between solid, filled and plated is correct.
Why Yes....I was.....but I see the error in my ways. So I would like to apologize to Terry and anyone else whom I may have offended with my rude and uncalled for comments. I was more interested in the sterling make up and posted the pic without checking the source . I won't do that again either. Once again , I fell short of being a good community member & I'm sorry if my comments were hurtful , or overly stern to the point of insulting or harming in any way , any member on this site ! Yours, Komokwa
af, I've a modern silver Comyns owl which is marked as filled and also marked as silver. I think it's the same technique as the older Edwardian candlesticks, for example.
An electrotype is indeed a different animal but I think the 'candlestick' reference by owned is to filled bases and interiors like knife handles, and other thin but hallmarkable wares, not OSP.
Yup, spot on, af. Those candlesticks, knife handles and such that are filled with plaster, or whatever. People peel off the silver and scrap it.
Geez - it's just a little chart a chain-mail jewelry-maker put on her site to illustrate the new wire she's using. Personally, the only place I can recall running across 'silver-filled' (as in 'gold-filled') in reference to regular silver production was in some old Canadian publications... ~Cheryl http://invincibleart.com/materials-techniques/introducing-sterling-filled-wire/
I don't know anything about silver or gold.... but I do appreciate the politeness and openness of all the posters here!
