coinman123
Silver Member
I decided to go to an antique shop today and found some cool things. You had many dealers putting their antiques on consignment at one shop so it was huge with a variety of items. The owner of the shop was very nice and had a huge bucket of "scrap silver", he said that some of the silver in there is antique, many monogrammed silver spoons and forks, necklaces, pendents, rings, etc. He said I could buy what was in there for 75 cents a gram. He will melt down some of the silver in there and make sterling bars, he melts down the fragments of necklaces, and some other more junky jewelry without historic significance along with other weird things and leaves anything historical or stuff that maybe is worth more than melt to some people, he sells the bars at a couple cents above melt. I already spent $60 this morning on a coin somewhere else so I did not buy much.
I wanted some junk silver so I bought two things from the junk sterling silver box, I tried to buy unique stuff, not just average junk jewelry
The first thing I bought was a nice unique monogrammed sterling spoon from the silver bucket, anyone know what time period it is from?
Second thing I bought was a nice sterling silver monogrammed thimble from the box of silver.
Anyone know anything about it?
I than left the silver because I did not want to spend too much money in one place and there was a whole huge store to look at.
I decided to get a nice classic coke bottle from 1953, I love the look of embossed coke bottles from that time. It's in incredible condition was almost no case wear and not a single chip anywhere. This was my first one, I have always wanted to buy one somewhere but never did. Who could pass it up for $3??
I saw a shelf full of vintage radios, most were not within my budget. I then noticed a broken radio from the late 1940's, it said, "Not Working, Decoration Only". I checked the price, $9, I debated for a while, the owner of the store let me have it for $7 though. It may be in horrible condition but I love how retro radios look, I just wanted it as a conversation piece to display somewhere so it did not matter much if it worked.
That is all I bought but from there today, they had everything from old bottles to old farming equipment,vintage military stuff, my favorite, WWII food rations (still unopened in their original packaging
) I will hopefully be back there soon
Just wanted to post this, Coinman123
I wanted some junk silver so I bought two things from the junk sterling silver box, I tried to buy unique stuff, not just average junk jewelry
The first thing I bought was a nice unique monogrammed sterling spoon from the silver bucket, anyone know what time period it is from?
Second thing I bought was a nice sterling silver monogrammed thimble from the box of silver.
Anyone know anything about it?
I than left the silver because I did not want to spend too much money in one place and there was a whole huge store to look at.
I decided to get a nice classic coke bottle from 1953, I love the look of embossed coke bottles from that time. It's in incredible condition was almost no case wear and not a single chip anywhere. This was my first one, I have always wanted to buy one somewhere but never did. Who could pass it up for $3??
I saw a shelf full of vintage radios, most were not within my budget. I then noticed a broken radio from the late 1940's, it said, "Not Working, Decoration Only". I checked the price, $9, I debated for a while, the owner of the store let me have it for $7 though. It may be in horrible condition but I love how retro radios look, I just wanted it as a conversation piece to display somewhere so it did not matter much if it worked.
That is all I bought but from there today, they had everything from old bottles to old farming equipment,vintage military stuff, my favorite, WWII food rations (still unopened in their original packaging
) I will hopefully be back there soonJust wanted to post this, Coinman123
