Talk:Plated ware

Weighted Sterling and other plating and leafing
Very very common for of Sterling. Needs some discussion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.11.27.48 (talk) 02:32, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Weighted sterling is currently a dead-end/orphan/stub and would probably be best as part of Sterling's article, since it's in a way a "form" or alloy or silver. I don't see weighted sterling as much of a topic in and of itself. Other option could be to merge weighted sterling into an article about metal plating and/or false precious metals. Lexprod (talk) 15:04, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
 * The parent article, Plated ware, is also an orphan and it might be useful to merge those two. There is also Sheffield plate, the patterns of which were made to mimic sterling ware, but that article is better developed than the other two. --Old Moonraker (talk) 16:59, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Plating also has its own article, but seems strictly to cover modern chemical and electrical plating techniques. I'm going to have to admit ignorance about methods used before electroplating, which I assume was how weighted sterling was made, but it seems that those methods are in need of some larger article (metal leaf could even be bundled in as well, another orphan.) I'm going to paste this discussion on plated ware's discussion page as it seems more relevant there than here now. Lexprod (talk) 00:01, 3 December 2011 (UTC)