In the mid-1700s, silver was fused to copper and called Sheffield plate. An invention of Thomas Boulsover (1705-88), Sheffield plate was born by accident. While Boulsover was busy repairing a ...

The Old Park silver rolling mill was established in the early 1760s, although a corn mill existed on the site even earlier than that. It was the first mill to roll Sheffield plate, a combination ...

39.5 x 71 cm. (15.6 x 28 in.) ...

His business was established in 1760 to recycle items made from a sandwich of silver and copper, invented in the city by Thomas Boulsover in around 1742 and called Sheffield Plate. Annealing ...

it was inferred that the plating had normally been effected by a fusion process analogous to that by which Sheffield plate was later made. Examples are, however, reported in which a silver solder ...