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Sheffield plate


Sheffield plate
Sheffield plated soup tureen (c. 1815)
Articles made from silver plated on copper by a method of fusion involving heat and pressure, discovered about 1743 by a Sheffield culer, Thomas Boulsover. This method was widely used before the advent of electroplating.


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