0 metal with a thin covering of silver:
Most experts will be able to tell the difference between solid silver and silver plate just by handling the item.
We had silver plate on our helmets, buttons, whistles, and chain.
He amassed about 2,000 pieces of gold and silver plate, much of it studded with jewels.
In each corner of the room you would erect "stages" - buffet or sideboards - on which you would put stupendous quantities of gold and silver plate.
It was indeed only practical to tax silver plate whilst its use was restricted.
The bullionist policy also included export encouragements, embargo powers, a bank, and the collection of gold and silver plate from individuals to coin into money.
While in solution, the excised brain was cut in half along the midline axis, glued to a silver plate, and placed into a well of a temperature-controlled recording chamber.
At that examination it was found that there was no silver plate in the man's head.
To some extent, in cash terms, but not quality terms, we are now talking about the silver plate.
But do not let us hand it to them on a silver plate.
When it was set up, we likened it, to paraphrase the words of a famous politician of the past, to the silver plate on a coffin.
In addition, the crown and scepters are decorated with ribbons of white, and mounted on a silver plate with a tall rest.