Silver Marks on Fork

Q: I have a silver fork with these marks, but I don’t know how to find out what they mean. Can you help? A: This mark on your silver plated fork was used by Levesley Brothers. The company was founded by Charles, Thomas, and William Levesley in Sheffield, England, about 1863. William Lloyd joined the […]

Victorian English Silver Plate

Silver plate made in the late 18th and early 19th centuries was made by fusing a thin layer of silver onto a sheet of copper. By the Victorian era, the last half of the 19th century, silver was plated differently—it was electroplated. A method of electroplating metal was discovered by Luigi Brugnatelli, an Italian chemist, […]