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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 2264065, member: 59"]Since you are in the UK and the spoon has a "registration number" it is likely to also be a UK product. But that also means that it is plated at best. If it were solid silver it would have the usual British marks - which are nowhere to be seen. </p><p><br /></p><p>Just because something is not magnetic does not mean that it is solid silver. The base metal for electroplated wares is often nickel silver - which contains neither silver nor a ferrous metal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 2264065, member: 59"]Since you are in the UK and the spoon has a "registration number" it is likely to also be a UK product. But that also means that it is plated at best. If it were solid silver it would have the usual British marks - which are nowhere to be seen. Just because something is not magnetic does not mean that it is solid silver. The base metal for electroplated wares is often nickel silver - which contains neither silver nor a ferrous metal.[/QUOTE]
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