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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bluemoon, post: 256415, member: 1296&quot;]&quot;And at one time, they were all silvered--the silver has been polished off over the centuries, but traces of it remain on the bottoms.&quot;</p><p>- <a href="http://mjhdesignarts.blogspot.fi/2014/12/18th-c-french-louis-xiv-and-louis-xv.html?m=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://mjhdesignarts.blogspot.fi/2014/12/18th-c-french-louis-xiv-and-louis-xv.html?m=1" rel="nofollow">http://mjhdesignarts.blogspot.fi/2014/12/18th-c-french-louis-xiv-and-louis-xv.html?m=1</a> on some 18th century candlesticks.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was also a silver plating technique called &#039;argent haché&#039; that was invented in the early 1700&#039;s and dissapeared around 1800. A lot of the (french) 18th century candlesticks I&#039;ve seen were described as that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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