L. Bros. Canadian Vintage Silverplate Serving Dish

This Shell Shaped Vintage Silverplate Serving Dish was manufactured by L. Bros., Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is stamped "Old English Reproduction." It measures 11 1/2'' Length by 10 1/2'' Width by 2 3/4" Depth or Height and dates circa 1940.

COMMENT: This Open Vegetable Serving Dish is Great Quality Silverplate!. It has nice weight and is electroplated on a copper base which is the best base for silverplate items. It has a simple gadrooned edge with three Lions feet.

PHOTOGRAPHY NOTE: The bottom photos are lightened up in order to show detail of feet.

CONDITION: This silverplate serving dish is in very fine condition.

SILVERPLATE CONDITION NOTE:

Some minor conditional problems that are a common occurrence or commonplace with "antique and vintage" silverplate pieces which are considered acceptable and by general standards considered as "patina" are minor or light surface scratching and slight wear or minor bleeding of the base metal which is generally copper, brass or Britannica metal.

• Teapots, Coffee pots and Jugs generally show some interior discoloration and pitting due to the chemical interaction of the tea, coffee or other beverages with the various base metals if left sitting for long time periods and not properly cleaned after each usage. Teapots almost always have discoloration on the "interior" bottom.
  
• Trays normally have light surface scratching and bleeding of the base metal. Antique and Vintage Trays almost always show surface wear on the reverse side (back side).
• Flatware, for example forks, knives, spoons, etc., because of their usage, will on many occasions exhibit some light surface scratching.
• Candlesticks, at the insert top section, sometimes will exhibit slight discoloration where the candle burns too low; also sometimes on the underneath side of the base, wear will show.

"Antique and Vintage Silverplate" are not "new" items and therefore will almost always exhibit slight wear (bleeding) and light surface scratching.

Many Victorian Art Nouveau and Edwardian pieces of silverplate will almost always show bleeding and sometimes need re-silvering. Re-silvering is frowned upon and is not always recommended by purists, especially when it comes to Georgian and Early Victorian silverplate. Re-silvering of really early pieces, Georgian to Mid-Victorian, can devalue pieces. Generally speaking, "re-silvering" is a personal matter of choice.