Silver 950 bracelet

[Back-of-the-boat]

Found the usual clad today and a nice 950 silver bracelet the broken cross was from yesterday also a 1955 Canadian one cent. Everything was tot lot finds yesterday's clad count was almost five bucks, today's was 1.69.

 

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[pescadore]

Nice Hunt !! Congrats on the silver bracelet.

 

[ivan salis]

uh have I got some really interesting news for you --its not silver---925 is the marking for sterling silver --950 is not a silver content marking --its for PLATINUM (WHITE GOLD)

ITS WHITE GOLD (PLATINUM) * 950 is the marking for platinum (white gold) meaning it is 95 % platinum----- 950 parts pure out of 1000 --

JUST GOOGLE---- WHAT DOES 950 ON JEWELRY MEAN ? AND SEE FOR YOURSELF...

HUGE VALUE DIFFERANCE BETWEEN SILVER ( currently about $16 an oz scrap value ) AND PLATINUM...($1157 an oz) about 72 times as much --and if the cross that was found the day before was nearby or close to the where the chain was found at (they might go together) -- thus it too might be platinum --if so you hit it huge...(as in this find could pay for your detector type of find) even at broken jewelry scrap PRICES

IF I SEE SO CALLED " 950 SILVER" JEWELRY FOR SALE AT YARD / ESTATE SALES YOU CAN BEAT I'LL BUY IT...ALL DAY LONG AND I DON'T NOT EVEN DICKER ON THE PRICE -- I GLADLY GIVE THEM WHATEVER THEY ASK FOT THEIR "SILVER" ...

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

I was thinking Platinum also but there is 950 Silver that is why I said Silver although I will be getting it checked just to be sure as soon as I can pry it off my wife's wrist.The cross was in a completely different spot actually a different town.I'm hoping it's Plat but not getting my hopes up as some Mexican Silver is marked 950 and is also considered Sterling just a rarer find than 925.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Nice bracelet.

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Congrats really nice finds! Hope it goes platinum for you!
Just put the wife in the car and tell her you're going for a ride, take her and bracelet to the jeweler to check it out!

My finds usually go the other direction, it looks like gold but turns out not to be.

 

[park pirate]

Sweet silver..

 

[UnderMiner]

Interesting find. From my recent research on early 18th century silver I discovered the first to use the .950 purity standard was the English starting in 1696. The reason for it was that silversmiths were chopping sterling silver from the coins to use in their wares and then spending the underweight coins. To stop the chopping of sterling coinage by silversmiths King William III introduced "Britannia Silver" a higher content silver alloy that replaced sterling as the silver standard in England. Eventually enough silversmiths and people complained that the higher standard was too soft - thus the .950 standard was repealed in 1720 and .925 sterling once again became the standard - and still is (although the .950 was left open for optional use). Just thought this history was worth sharing. Wish they made more .950 silver items, (in reality I wish they would just make everything from .9999 silver ) And just to clarify the original Britannia standard was .958 (I guess they decided to round that number down in more recent times to .950).

 

[dirtlooter]

hope it is platinum, would be very nice

 

[kingskid1611]

Either way it turns out to be, You are a little richer. Congrats.

 

[Vdubguy]

That's a great find whether it's silver or platinum. Hope it's platinum though!

HH

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Had it checked by a jeweler I trust and he confirmed what I thought Silver, oh well my wife liked it either way so all is good.

 

[I-DIG-IT]

Nice digs.