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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 362971, member: 56"]There are reports of the Chinese producing fake silver items in the 18th C. The material they used was platinum, which at the time was considered of no value.</p><p><br /></p><p>That story comes from Kenneth Snowman's "18th Century Gold Boxes of Europe".</p><p><br /></p><p>(From the same source there are reports of 18th C European silver thimbles lined with platinum for the same reason.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 362971, member: 56"]There are reports of the Chinese producing fake silver items in the 18th C. The material they used was platinum, which at the time was considered of no value. That story comes from Kenneth Snowman's "18th Century Gold Boxes of Europe". (From the same source there are reports of 18th C European silver thimbles lined with platinum for the same reason.)[/QUOTE]
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