Gold tinted flatware spoons, D S in a Diamond mark, Diamond Silver Company?

[916bulldogs123]

I couldn't find this pattern under their mark and these look like gold plated?

any help will be much appreciated.

Mike

[707susang]

Without the added words like SILVER PLATE, EPNS or DIAMOND PLATE, it could be gilt stainless?.  The R site shows a few stainless patterns.  I couldn't find this one.

[bakersgma]

I couldn't find it either. I doubt there's any gold there - and little to no value even if there were.

[spirit-of-shiloh]

Sometimes tarnish looks gold. Clean them with Wrights paste. I have cleaned gold plated flatware and the gold does not come off.If yours cleans to silver then most likely plated.

[deepseashadow]

Without the added words like SILVER PLATE, EPNS or DIAMOND PLATE, it could be gilt stainless?.  The R site shows a few stainless patterns.  I couldn't find this one.

that doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

[deepseashadow]

Sometimes tarnish looks gold. Clean them with Wrights paste. I have cleaned gold plated flatware and the gold does not come off.If yours cleans to silver then most likely plated.

tarnish never looks like gold but rather the color of the metal oxide, but even then, tarnish looks more like a fungus and do not know of any metal on earth  were the oxidized metal looks like gold, that's the bad new,

now the good news, my goose lays gold eggs.

[spirit-of-shiloh]

Deep,over the MANY years of handling sterling and silver plate I have seen various shades of tarnish in various stages. So get off yout HIGH HORSE and learn something!

[deepseashadow]

I couldn't find this pattern under their mark and these look like gold plated?

any help will be much appreciated.

Mike

looks to me like somebody might have started to polish them, rubbed off a very thin plate, exposed the brass under the plate, and polished the brass which now mimickes a gold color, very common thing that happens when dealing with thin plate,

[spirit-of-shiloh]

Per this site could be nickle silver ?

Top Spoon is marked DS in a diamond Alpaca Silver.

http://silverandsilverplate.blogspot.com/2010/04/nickel-silver-german-silver-alpacca.html

[deepseashadow]

Per this site could be nickle silver ?

Top Spoon is marked DS in a diamond Alpaca Silver.

http://silverandsilverplate.blogspot.com/2010/04/nickel-silver-german-silver-alpacca.html

nickel silver does not turn gold

[silverthwait]

Dream on, Shiloh!  

Just as a fun postscript to this, one November, I realized that all the silver -- three shelves of it -- in my corner cupboard, needed to be polished.  Well, one thing and another, Christmas coming, children, stuff, etc., and I kept putting off the task.  

A few days before the holiday, we had a dinner party.  No time to polish.  I lit the candles in the dining room, vaguely comforted about my sin of omission by the fact that our friends were not going to white glove the picture frames...or comment about the silver.

But they did.  In the candlelight (and even in the next morning's sunlight), everything in the corner cupboard had turned Gold.  ??!!??  

Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, I added some evergreen branches, and little red glass balls.  Talk about serendipity!

[deepseashadow]

For those self professed sliver smith one would assume that they should know their metals, fact of the matter is they don't and that says volumes about their professed expertise

[916bulldogs123]

I cleaned the three times with my Wrights cream, usually only takes once. they are still gold. a little lighter, a lot more shiny, But still gold.

Mike

[secessionist2]

Not sure you got an answer to this one - The mark was used by Diamond Silver co, Lambertville,NJ 1930's-1940's

I have similar pieces that also tarnished  with a gold sheen  from them,with the same sole DS in diamond mark, which I would have to say is EPNS-(nickel silver plated ) they will shine back to silverplate color , and as with many companies -especially these small ones -a lot of patterns are not attributed or named  to them

[deepseashadow]

you might be looking at brass rather then gold, but there is a remote chance that it is gold.