No its silver plate. EPNS stands for Electro Plated Nickel Silver.
The stamp SP should appear on most silver plated jewelry. Its designation may be hard to read without magnification tools.
electro plated copper 269 parts silver
plated sterling silver
Generally, pure silver is much heavier than a silver plated object. Pure silver objects such as spoons will also have a stamp somewhere on it that will say "925" or "925/1000." This shows you that the spoon has a silver content of 92.5 percent. Silver plated objects will not have this stamp.
Yes. The 925 indicates that the piece is 92.5% sterling silver.
Nothing its plated
EPS=Electro-Plated-Silver, also the stamp EPNS=Electro-Plated-Nickel-Silver. This is a base metal unfortunately, beneath a silvery skin.
Metal that is plated in gold can not have the stamp.
Plated. 1847 is the year Rogers Bros. was founded and is part their hallmark; it is not the year your flatware was manufactured. The IS (International Silver) stamp indicates you have silver plated flatware manufactured after 1898. Silverplate has no scrap value. For more information see Related Questions, below.
it is zinc plated in silver
Sheridan silver is copper plated with silver.