Found this silver spoon that I almost passed up...on second thought decided to look up what 835 means...just in case. (I only knew the 925 mark). Learned something new today!! Nice.
I've always heard stories about people finding Sterling silver in thrift stores but I've never seen any in all my years of thrifting until today. About $450 melt worth for a little over 3 bucks. woohoo! Haven't checked yet if any might be worth more as actual silverware. (estimating weight on...
I found this little Ohio "badge" today among some old brass buttons and other small trinkets at a local thrift shop. I would really like to know the age and use of this piece if anyone could help me! Thanks!
P.S. The word on the back that's hard to read is "bronze".
So in my neighborhood they use an old closed off to cars but not people parking lot, they are only there Friday through Sunday. During the week sometimes I go and look throughout the parking lot.. last week I found two gold necklace and a bunch of junk. Today I found a diamond earring, a Fitbit...
Picked this necklace up in a jar of jewelry at Goodwill over the weekend. Each link is a riveted spiral. Looks like it says MNW (I think), .925, a pineapple stamp (maybe?), some sort of script looking stamp, and A11. All I know is that it's sterling and the A11 means it was made in Sweden in...