[Jewelry making - Article 00185] - Re: [Orchid] Sterling Silver and Nickel

[Amery]

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>     My guess is that your caster didn't mix "sterling grain with
>     nickle" but instead used base metal with silver plating. Many
>     Inexpensive "SILVER" items aren't silver at all!!! 

    Yikes! I am positive that I haven't been selling plated items for
    the past few years! 

    I have watched him take the castings out of the tumbler and polish
    them on a wheel and sometimes I get the raw castings and tumble
    finish or polish them myself. 

    If I had been selling plated base metal I don't think I'd still be in
    business. Something like that could really tarnish (pun intended) a
    girl's reputation. 

    If any of my accounts are out there reading this, I speak with
    absolute certainty that my designs are not plated! 

Amery
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