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THAT'S how you identify silver?

Postby cesariojpn » Sat Apr 02, 2011 3:26 am

http://www.aetv.com/storage-wars/video/ ... 0614025001

The guy in the clip (1:45) claims that you can distinguish Silver and Silver-Plate by smell. Silver smells "sweet" while Silver-plate has a "sulfur/sour" smell.

So.....truth, or false?
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Re: THAT'S how you identify silver?

Postby Luoganta » Sat Apr 02, 2011 12:22 pm

I'm going to go ahead and call bull on that one. If you roll a spoon in crap it's going to smell like crap.
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Re: THAT'S how you identify silver?

Postby blackrabbit » Sat Apr 02, 2011 12:36 pm

So I sniffed some silver plated items I have and some sterling stuff. I can't tell the difference. I can't think of why a plated object would smell any different than a solid silver item. I think when you plate something it is in pure silver and solid sterling has 7.5 % copper in it, but I know that pure silver does not smell like sulfur. I would not bring items to that fellow for appraisal.
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Re: THAT'S how you identify silver?

Postby cesariojpn » Sat Apr 02, 2011 7:07 pm

blackrabbit wrote:So I sniffed some silver plated items I have and some sterling stuff. I can't tell the difference. I can't think of why a plated object would smell any different than a solid silver item. I think when you plate something it is in pure silver and solid sterling has 7.5 % copper in it, but I know that pure silver does not smell like sulfur. I would not bring items to that fellow for appraisal.


Can wee blame it on chemical cleaners?
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Re: THAT'S how you identify silver?

Postby hejira11 » Sat Apr 02, 2011 7:41 pm

I'd like to drag some 1mill coated copper bars through confectioners sugar and see if he can tell. :D
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Re: THAT'S how you identify silver?

Postby scrapper2010 » Sat Apr 02, 2011 8:15 pm

I know that I couldn't tell a difference but....this gives me an idea. I'm quite sure that I could train my dog to sniff out the good stuff if there is even a faint hint of a difference.
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Re: THAT'S how you identify silver?

Postby shinnosuke » Sun Apr 03, 2011 12:40 am

cesariojpn wrote:
blackrabbit wrote:So I sniffed some silver plated items I have and some sterling stuff. I can't tell the difference. I can't think of why a plated object would smell any different than a solid silver item. I think when you plate something it is in pure silver and solid sterling has 7.5 % copper in it, but I know that pure silver does not smell like sulfur. I would not bring items to that fellow for appraisal.


Can wee blame it on chemical cleaners?


Are you asking if the guy in the video has been sniffing too many chemicals?
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