You can expect to pay about $30-40 for a dinner fork, salad fork, knife and spoon making a place setting for 4 (16 Pieces) about $125 or so if you shop around...
It is silver plate flatware. The pattern came out in 1953.
The Oneida is a company that creates Silver Holloware & Flatware. I actually have a fork from the onedia community, so I know they specialize in Silver Plates Flatware and Holloware. So I would think par plate would mean Silver Plate.
If it is marked "STERLING" OR "925" on the back of it, it means the silver is about 92.5% of the total weight of that piece. Otherwise the piece of silver plate flatware contains very insignificant amount of silver.
Oh, dude, Wm Rogers reinforced plate AA IS on flatware means it's silverplate made by the William Rogers Manufacturing Company. The "AA" stands for the quality of the silver plating, and "IS" likely refers to the International Silver Company, which acquired Rogers in the 1890s. So, like, it's just fancy talk for saying your flatware is silver plated and probably pretty old school.
How much is it worth
International Silver Company, founded in 1898 from a number of smaller silver manufacturers that specialized in silver plated tableware.
IS stands for the International Silver Co. and unless it says sterling or 925/1000 it is silver plate.
Gold flatware can be purchased in luxurious shops that specialize in cutlery equipment. Such stores can range from 'West Elm' to 'Neiman Marcus'. Used sets of gold flatware can also be purchased on websites such as eBay.
They did both genuine sterling and sterling plate, the genuine flatware and dishes will be marked Sterling.
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.
The word "plate" is the answer. Community Plate is silver plated and has no silver value but many of the patterns have a collectible value. There is a link in the related links with a list of some of the more popuular Community patterns with links to replacement values.
simeon l. & george h rogers company oneida ltd gardenia pattern 1941 silver plate flatware