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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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electroplate
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In 1842 George Elkington, a Birmingham manufacturer, patented a method for coating a cheaper metal with silver by electrolysis. He almost immediately ruined trade in the more expensive *Sheffield plate. Electroplating has remained the method for all silver plate since the 1850s, the cheaper underlying metal usually being the alloy known as nickel silver (copper, zinc and nickel).
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