He sets the items on a three-tiered silver plate, with finger sandwiches on the bottom and the top two layers with sweets.

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"Chrysler took a silver plate and gave it to them, " says Erkut Uludag, a partner in the Detroit office of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, referring to the latest deal.

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In exchange, each individual presenting a luxury item would receive a piece of engraved silver plate (typically in the form of cups, bowls and spoons), which because it came from the queen herself, had a "value" far beyond its intrinsic worth.

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He became fascinated with photography and wondered: Wasn't there an easier way to do it than with heavy, glass-plate negatives that had to be dipped in silver nitrate and processed on the spot?

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