Looking for Silver Information?

One of the best resources on the web is the Association of Small Collectors of Antique Silver.


This site is filled with articles on almost everything silver related.

http://www.ascasonline.org/

They cover care, marks, history, submitted questions and pretty much everything else. I regularly turn to them when I am searching for information and some of their members run silver related sites that are institutions in their own right.

For example Giorgio B. in Venice Italy created a site to highlight his collection and it has blossomed into a massive resource that contains marks, a dictionary, pictures of his collection, and much more.

Even with all this information available for free I constantly come across pieces of silverplate sold as sterling, chrome and pewter sold as silver, and quadruple plate being "dipped" more times than "single" plate. On one of my favourite sources for silver this comes up with remarkable regularity. I suppose this should not be surprising. How can anyone know everything?