Ornate Silver Pen Tray, Birmingham 1901

• Sterling Silver - Sterling silver is a mixture of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% of another metal, usually copper. Fine silver is 99.9% pure silver, and is relatively soft and the addition of the very small amount of copper gives the metal enough strength and hardness to be worked into jewellery, decorative and household objects.

This item has been included into following indexes:

• trays, silver
  • silver, 20th century 355
  • silver, Edwardian 92
  • silver, Victorian 172