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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;drg642, post: 508500, member: 74&quot;]That set is outstanding.</p><p><br /></p><p>I used to sell my scrap silver to a guy who bought tons of it.&nbsp; He taught me the 18K acid test described here, and also taught me that to really confirm silver, a second test could be used.&nbsp; That test is to rub an edge fairly hard on the testing stone, hard enough to get through any plating, and then dip the edge in a drop of 14K acid.&nbsp; If it turns a grayish color that can be polished back to silver, it is silver.&nbsp; If it is not silver, you can look under a loupe and see it bubbling, and maybe turning green.&nbsp; This test can be destructive to items that are not silver.</p><p>When I first learned this from him I did a bunch of tests on know silver and silverplate, and I did find some silverplate flatware that gave a nice milky white result with the 18K test.</p><p><br /></p><p>That all said, I would have no doubt that your set is silver, and over the years of testing, I can&#039;t really remember any jewelry that tested silver with 18K acid but not the 14K acid.&nbsp; There has been some flatware though that passed the 18K test but not he 14K test.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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