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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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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”.
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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 About 1840 the Electroplate process superseded Sheffielf Plate.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.
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.
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