Goodwill silver again! Lucky me...

[frankendime]

Seen it on shelf as soon as I walked thru the door $1.99 Revere Silversmiths Sterling Reinforced Weighted sugar bowl. 3.1 oz. Also picked up this old street sign. Heavy metal. $1.99, and the Can O Mat 49 cents.

HH ALL!!!

 

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[Sterling]

Nice score!

 

[tamrock]

Good job. Never seen a vintage street sign before in thift stores. I like it.... Do you remove the weighted stuff from silver like that to scrap? Thats what I do as you can't tell the true weight with that pitch in the base. Your certainly on target with that piece. A lady in an antique shop got a little bugged with me when I purchase some short weighted candle sticks from her for only 12.95 for the pair. She asked if I was going to clean them up and use them. I said No, I'm going to bust the seam on the bottom and top smack the pitch out of them, pull the rod inside out of the center and stomp on them with my boot. I'll get the best return on scrap after that. She wasn't up on the silver prices at the time and took me for a destroyer of fine antiques.

 

[diggummup]

Unless a piece is damaged badly, I never tear them down. It's always worth more as an object than as scrap, for the most part anyways.

I like that old street sign too! Nice thrift finds. Makes me want to go out and hit a few today!

 

[jerseyben]

Good job. Never seen a vintage street sign before in thift stores. I like it.... Do you remove the weighted stuff from silver like that to scrap? Thats what I do as you can't tell the true weight with that pitch in the base. Your certainly on target with that piece. A lady in an antique shop got a little bugged with me when I purchase some short weighted candle sticks from her for only 12.95 for the pair. She asked if I was going to clean them up and use them. I said No, I'm going to bust the seam on the bottom and top smack the pitch out of them, pull the rod inside out of the center and stomp on them with my boot. I'll get the best return on scrap after that. She wasn't up on the silver prices at the time and took me for a destroyer of fine antiques.

You couldn't have just told her "yes Im gonna clean them up"?

 

[tamrock]

You couldn't have just told her "yes Im gonna clean them up"?

I know I should have not said anything, but I have never gotton the full potential out of weighted silver in original condition. I think around that time I took a loss on ebay with a pair like these I speak of and they sold for only $15 or so for the pair. No one was up to buy them for the collector value, plus the weighted material adds shipping cost and upsets the value for buyers of scrap. At the time, the best scrap buyer I saw would give only $8.00 each candlestick unscrapped, but $28.00 for the pair cleaned of all non-silver. I thought I was enlightening her on how to get the best price out of these weighted pieces. I have a very good collection in silver pieces, all solid, made with thick sheets, beautiful and no weighted stuff, I won't be scrapping those. I do like the weighted, but just can't respect them for much antique value. Weighted knife handles I know will have replacment flatware pattern value. I don't scrap those either. Thank you for bringing a choice of better things to say to my attention.

 

[frankendime]

Good job. Never seen a vintage street sign before in thift stores. I like it.... Do you remove the weighted stuff from silver like that to scrap? Thats what I do as you can't tell the true weight with that pitch in the base. Your certainly on target with that piece. A lady in an antique shop got a little bugged with me when I purchase some short weighted candle sticks from her for only 12.95 for the pair. She asked if I was going to clean them up and use them. I said No, I'm going to bust the seam on the bottom and top smack the pitch out of them, pull the rod inside out of the center and stomp on them with my boot. I'll get the best return on scrap after that. She wasn't up on the silver prices at the time and took me for a destroyer of fine antiques.

Right now I'm pretty much hoarding it. No need to scrap at current prices. Not when I'm finding it for pennies on the dollar. I"ll clean up the really good pieces and hang a hefty price on em and put them on the table at the flea. I'm not opposed to stomping em out when the price is right...