Plated silver, also called “hotel silver ... though sterling flatware is less and less popular among younger people. Scrap silver — a silver buyer mostly like wants to melt down sterling ...

Metal thieves have stolen 25 tonnes of silver-plated brass taps, which have been valued at £70,000, from a scrap yard in Devon. The taps were stolen on Sunday from Gorman Metals, in Newton Abbot.

“If we must melt the piece, then we will at least pay a very high scrap ... Oneida Silver, Silver Plate, Silver Soldered’ or other hallmarks usually means they are just silver plated and ...

scrap dealers and the public — markets W Silver stopped serving about a decade ago, Gaddy said. "We'll run this as a separate operation" and use it as a platform to do similar operations at ...

However, if silver is stored properly and cleaned occasionally, it rarely requires polishing. Here’s how to clean and care for plated or sterling silver (whether it’s flatware, jewelry ...