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Pressing forks and spoons from sheets of nickel silver

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Pressing forks and spoons from sheets of nickel silver
Sheffield
Cutlery Research Council
Cutlery Research Council

Spoons and forks are usually pressed in the flat from sheets of nickel silver (an alloy of nickel, copper, zinc and steel). As this arrangement of the shapes obtained from one sheet demonstrates, little of the metal is wasted.

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