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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MrNate, post: 2065134, member: 5515&quot;]The determining factor that makes me certain everything except the item at the bottom of my listing is plated: the marks on everything suggest 84 purity silver, but the difference between a scratch test on a teapot compared to the real 84 bowl were like night and day. The acid test really doesn’t lie, if something was less than sterling, I would consistently see a nice red mark after continued scraping, albeit perhaps a bit smaller mark compared to higher purity silver. For everything except the bowl, the red mark is small, smaller and disappearing completely by the 3rd or 4th rubbing. So they have a heavy plate, but I believe now the base metal is brass.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can also notice the marks on the bowl are different so it’s clearly not from the same set even though it has the same general style of the rest. The acid test on that piece was consistently a large deep red: definitely real.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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