Silver goblets

Re: Not the right ones

Haven't seen the film yet as I'm in France at the moment. I'll remember to look closely when I do.

Fed up with anti fouling......it's calorifiers for me!

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Re: Silver at sea

"Self-destructing" is putting it too strongly but certainly salt laden damp sea air is bad for silver. I don't doubt that officers in Nelson's navy used silver spoons and forks (but the "Admiralty" pattern of flatware, Old English with a fouled anchor, is Victorian, not Georgian). Quite possibly they used other silverware too. But it would have done it no good.

Your wife's table lights might have been taken to sea and used occasionally for entertaining but I think it is more likely that they stayed ashore, and the nice box was an anti-servant precaution - silver often "walked" when a servant left a household.

Our ancestors took table silver very much more seriously than we do - a good set of silverware in say 1800 was the equivalent of a BMW in the drive today - and it was correspondingly more valuable. If you look at silver of the Napoleonic War era it is notably lighter and thinner (though often very well designed and made) than the silver of the mid-i8th century or the mid-19th, because Britain was in a financial stretch with the cost of fighting Napoleon.

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And aluminium

< Our ancestors took table silver very much more seriously than we do - a good set of silverware in say 1800 was the equivalent of a BMW in the drive today - and it was correspondingly more valuable.>

Queen Victoria had an aluminium dinner service - horrendously expensive to produce in the early days.

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Re: And aluminium

Think of the electrolysis with port and steak pie!! Horrendous!

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Re: Pewter warning

James
I think you have just answered a major question thats been bothering the rest of us for years. Now we know why so many yotties are going nuts,,,it's all that lead<s>.

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