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- Sheffield plate, in metalwork, articles made of copper coated with silver by fusion. The technique was discovered about 1742 by Thomas Boulsover, a Sheffield (Yorkshire, Eng.) cutler, who noted that the combination of fused silver and copper retained all the ductility possessed by both metals and acted as one in response to manipulation.
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Jul 14, 2009 · In 1742 a discovery credited to Thomas Boulsover of Sheffield led to the Sheffield plating business. Elegant Opaline glass & silverplated butter keeper, circa 1870, in Classical Taste by Joseph Rogers of Sheffield, England. Boulsover discovered that when sterling silver is fused to copper the two metals are identically malleable.
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Old Sheffield Plate (or OSP) is the name generally given to the material developed by Thomas Boulsover in the 1740s, a fusion of copper and silver which could be made into a range of items normally made in solid silver.
In Sheffield plate a sheet of silver is fused on to a thicker one of copper and the compound billet rolled, both metals expanding equally, become a thin sheet of copper coated with a layer of silver. About 1840 the Electroplate process superseded Sheffielf Plate. Its production ceased about 1860.
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Feb 16, 2014 · To determine if a piece is Old Sheffield Plate or silverplate there are many clues. If a piece has EPNS ( Electroplated Nickel Silver) or EP (Electroplate) marked on it, then it is definitely silverplate. If there is a maker’s mark on it, the maker can be identified by consulting a good “mark book”.
