Silver plated copper

pjost....I have some of the solder coat wire that I was stripping tonight. It's older wire with a tarry kind of cloth insulation. I believe the coating on it is a tin solder. The bus bars I've seen have mostly been silver plated, but they do make both silver and tin plated.

Bigburtchino....Immulmen.....yes, I sure wasn't advocating selling them your #2 copper at that price, just giving the info that they are trying to buy it now. The rest of the story is that I found some steel platters that were silver plated and took them in to sell for $1 per lb. I told them up front that they were steel and they told me they were after the silver anyway so it was good.

Hurrikane.... Yes, as snapperhead said, German silver tableware is made of an alloy usually of copper and nickel (and some other stuff). You're right that it doesn't actually have silver in it and has caused lots of confusion. I think CraigRets has some tableware that actually is copper or copper alloy that's silver plated. It usually says "silver plate" on those.