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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 108070, member: 111&quot;]I am not saying that the torchmark means anything other than &#039;silverplated&#039;, could be on any material, but it makes little sense to me that Denmark would be using brass and copper as their primary base for electroplated wares, especially flatware, while other European countries, as well as the U.S. and Canada, used primarily nickel silver as the base, for the very simple reason that worn plating wasn&#039;t as evident on the white metal.&nbsp; Brass and nickel silver are both copper-based alloys, usually with a similar percentage of copper, can&#039;t see any reason to brassplate nickel silver before plating it with silver - copperplating before the silver might be used on steel, or other metals that don&#039;t take as well to silverplating (have also seen it on silverplated resin/plastic), but there wouldn&#039;t really be any reason to do so on nickel silver and it would pretty much negate the reason for using a white metal in the first place.</p><p><br /></p><p>Looking forward to seeing your brass-base pieces, more examples for my reference files...</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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