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Antique Sheffield silver plate wine bottle coasters.  Ornately decorated with an applied floral border on a vertically lobed base with turned hardwood bases.  The copper base metal is showing on the high points; what Sheffield enthusiasts refer to as “bleeding”.

6 1/2” (16.5cm) diameter, 2” (5.1cm) high.

$995 for the pair.

Sheffield Plate, often called Old Sheffield Plate, is a historical material and technique created by fusing a thin sheet of sterling silver onto a base metal, usually copper. Discovered in the 1740s in Sheffield, England, it provided an affordable alternative to solid sterling silver.

More information on the full history of Sheffield Plate is available on wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Sheffield_Plate