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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 107185, member: 59"]Thanks, Susan.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just to expand on what "plating indicator" meant - In the early days of electroplating in the US, some makers stamped flatware with a number that was supposed to represent the quantity of silver used in plating a large quantity of pieces of the same type - so many troy ounces or so many "dwt" (meaning "pennyweights") of silver per gross of teaspoons (for example.) Since pieces vary in size, different amounts of silver would be needed to achieve the same theoretical thickness of plating. This indicator eventually morphed into designations such as "double plate," "triple plate" etc. Since none of this was independently regulated, it was mostly marketing hype.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 107185, member: 59"]Thanks, Susan. Just to expand on what "plating indicator" meant - In the early days of electroplating in the US, some makers stamped flatware with a number that was supposed to represent the quantity of silver used in plating a large quantity of pieces of the same type - so many troy ounces or so many "dwt" (meaning "pennyweights") of silver per gross of teaspoons (for example.) Since pieces vary in size, different amounts of silver would be needed to achieve the same theoretical thickness of plating. This indicator eventually morphed into designations such as "double plate," "triple plate" etc. Since none of this was independently regulated, it was mostly marketing hype.[/QUOTE]
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