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<p>[QUOTE="MrNate, post: 440270, member: 5515"]Bakers, good question, that's just the reflection, the tone/color throughout the inside of both items is uniform. I took a very deep scrape on both items using an edge of the lip of the ring. I've found this to be a very good method to confirm it's silver, as by the second scrape on my testing stone with plated items all the silver layer is gone exposing a base metal which shows very little red on the acid. For both of these items, the second scrape looked great; deep red.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="MrNate, post: 440270, member: 5515"]Bakers, good question, that's just the reflection, the tone/color throughout the inside of both items is uniform. I took a very deep scrape on both items using an edge of the lip of the ring. I've found this to be a very good method to confirm it's silver, as by the second scrape on my testing stone with plated items all the silver layer is gone exposing a base metal which shows very little red on the acid. For both of these items, the second scrape looked great; deep red.[/QUOTE]
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