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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 256560, member: 25&quot;]<i>And at one time, they were all silvered-</i></p><p><br /></p><p>But not silver plated, and I have my doubts about all silvered. Or originally silvered. </p><p>The only explanaition of the process I could readily find was in a French chemistry book of 1784, where is is described as an amalgam process with mercury that is rather more complicated than the fire gilding process. </p><p>I suspect the commonest silvering process was that used by clock makers to silver dials that were usually made in brass. Silvering the whole dial or just the chapter ring made them much easier to see. </p><p><a href="http://www.davewestclocks.co.uk/silvering_clock_dials.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.davewestclocks.co.uk/silvering_clock_dials.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.davewestclocks.co.uk/silvering_clock_dials.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This is quite a simple process for silvering any brass or bronze item. The silver finish is not all that resistant to handling and will tarnish over time. Polishing the tarnish will tend to remove the silvering which is a very, very thin layer. It is simpler to just re-silver.</p><p>It would not be hard to understand why the method quickly dies out.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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