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This silver container (creamer?) has the marks of JR & S which is for John Round and Son Sheffield but there's no indication (in the listed JR & S marks) if this creamer is sterling silver or silver plate.Could anybody help identify this as sterling or plate?

Thanks

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Hi,

The image with the marks is embedded.
You are right about the maker. It is silver-plate because there are NO well established marks for solid silver
(Assay office, lion passant or Britannia standard and date letter).
(Mr. Round has incorporated his name into trade mark very ingeniously by adding the globe and the meaning would be ``All Round the World``).
Hard soldering warranted was probably unnecessary unless soft tin-lead solder was used elsewhere, which is doubtful because an object left on the oven would fall apart.
Their advertisement can be seen here.
http://www.925-1000.com/forum/search.ph ... N&start=20

Best wishes

Thank you for your very knowledgeable answer!