they have been in my collection for a while but I'm sure they have a variety of ages. I only added in the ones that I know to be sterling silver and not plated.
Oh... I only ask because I don't trust"sterling silver" from China. I bought a piece once, stamped and all and it was fake-well, silver-plated, but not solid sterling. I'm doing surveys like crazy trying to rack up some points for a ring...lol.
I certainly understand. Anything that is new and real cheap stamped 925 is probably just plated. Some of them are very pretty but they don't hold up as well as the vintage sterling silver ones that don't have the rhodium plating over it.