Silver tips to plated forks

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Heamatite
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Silver tips to plated forks

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Has anybody seen an example/ examples of close plated forks with silver points? A few retailers describe them from c 1817 and as practical way of overcoming disfiguring wear the process must have had some advantage . The silver tips were presumably hard soldered and then hammered hard again prior to the application of the silver foil. Was this patented and were only a few makers undertaking it. Bradbury, p336, describes Sheffield plate examples he dated to 1760.

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