Original Silver Plating

ORIGINAL COLONIAL ERA MUG SILVER PLATE Ca. 1740-1760

ORIGINAL COLONIAL ERA MUG SILVER PLATE Ca. 1740-1760
ORIGINAL COLONIAL ERA MUG SILVER PLATE Ca. 1740-1760
ORIGINAL COLONIAL ERA MUG SILVER PLATE Ca. 1740-1760
ORIGINAL COLONIAL ERA MUG SILVER PLATE Ca. 1740-1760
ORIGINAL COLONIAL ERA MUG SILVER PLATE Ca. 1740-1760
ORIGINAL COLONIAL ERA MUG SILVER PLATE Ca. 1740-1760
ORIGINAL COLONIAL ERA MUG SILVER PLATE Ca. 1740-1760

ORIGINAL COLONIAL ERA MUG SILVER PLATE Ca. 1740-1760

ORIGINAL COLONIAL ERA MUG SILVER PLATE Ca. 5 1/4 INCHES FROM BASE TO TOP OF HANDLE. 3 3/4 INCH DIAMETER BASE. EXTERIOR BASE (SHOWN) IS INSERTED.

INTERIOR BASE IS SILVER PLATE. SURFACE IS TARNISHED--AND MAY SHINE WITH POLISH.

SEEMS UNLIKELY AND IS NOT GUARANTEED. EXPOSED AREAS OF COPPER BENEATH SILVER PLATE APPEAR IN FEW. AND MINUTE SPOTS ON THE EXTERIOR. THE INTERIOR MAY HAVE BEEN. SUBJECT TO CONSIDERABLE USE, AND THE SILVER IS WORN THIN.

SHOWING THE COPPER IN A VISIBLE PATCH. THE ABOVE PHOTOS INCLUDE TWO WHICH SHOW COLONIAL PURE SILVER MUGS. THEY REPRESENT THE STYLE WHICH ATTESTS THE COLONIAL DATE. LATER MUGS WERE PLATED IN ONE COAT BY ELECTROLYSIS, A PROCESS. BEGINNING IN THE MID-1800'S. THE STYLE OF LATER MUGS WAS ALSO. DIFFERENT, AND THEY DID NOT HAVE WOODEN BOTTOMS.

IS THIS MUG A SHEFFIELD PLATE? COPPER BETWEEN TWO SHEETS OF SILVER AND FUSING THEM. A TECHNIQUE INVENTED IN BRITAIN, WITH COLONIAL PIECES FREQUENTLY. SHEFFIELD PIECES DID NOT HAVE MARKINGS, AND THEY ARE VERY RARE. NOTE: THE PHOTOS OF THE SILVER MUGS COME FROM.

"THE AMERICAN HERITAGE HISTORY OF COLONIAL ANTIQUES, ".
ORIGINAL COLONIAL ERA MUG SILVER PLATE Ca. 1740-1760