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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 35141, member: 25&quot;]I have a couple of pieces of silver marked &#039;filled&#039; 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 &#039;filled&#039;. </p><p><br /></p><p>The nearest you will get in silver to the typical &#039;goldfilled&#039;, 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. </p><p><br /></p><p>The silver to copper ratio of old Sheffield plate was similar to the continuing values for rolled gold, what you call &#039;goldfilled&#039;, but nowadays after a couple of hundred years the silver on OSP has usually worn very thin to nothing at all, leaving copper showing.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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