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Another trip to goodwill another nice score

KliaoKliao Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited August 29, 2019 3:27PM in Precious Metals

Wow my first big piece of silver in a while. Nice weight to0




A little search showed this was hand made by a designer in Greece.

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  • rte592rte592 Posts: 1,690 ✭✭✭✭✭

    $1.99.
    Probably started life on someone's head stone with flowers when it.
    Polishing may reveal the Original owner.

  • KliaoKliao Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 29, 2019 4:10PM

    @rte592 said:
    $1.99.
    Probably started life on someone's head stone with flowers when it.
    Polishing may reveal the Original owner.

    I don’t think on a headstone, it said mostly in weddings from what I found

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  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Makers mark?

  • KliaoKliao Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 29, 2019 5:00PM

    @Hemispherical said:
    Makers mark?

    Here’s what I was able to get. Any info would be nice. Thanks!

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  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Any marks like the ones listed here:

    https://www.925-1000.com

  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Search on Xeipoe ( EPΓXEIPOΣ XEIPOΣ / Greek Arts )

    I can't help but wonder if it's electroplated based on the images. If not, it's a hellova score.

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,238 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Agree with Weiss. The letters after .925 may indicate that it's electroplated with sterling silver. You can test it with a Sigma electronic tester or file a tiny notch in an obscure location and test it with nitric acid. A friendly local jeweler could help you with this. Let us know what you find out.

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  • KliaoKliao Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Weiss said:
    Search on Xeipoe ( EPΓXEIPOΣ XEIPOΣ / Greek Arts )

    I can't help but wonder if it's electroplated based on the images. If not, it's a hellova score.

    @PerryHall said:
    Agree with Weiss. The letters after .925 may indicate that it's electroplated with sterling silver. You can test it with a Sigma electronic tester or file a tiny notch in an obscure location and test it with nitric acid. A friendly local jeweler could help you with this. Let us know what you find out.

    Don’t worry I have the nitric acid testing kit and it does test as sterling silver.

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,238 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Kliao said:

    @Weiss said:
    Search on Xeipoe ( EPΓXEIPOΣ XEIPOΣ / Greek Arts )

    I can't help but wonder if it's electroplated based on the images. If not, it's a hellova score.

    @PerryHall said:
    Agree with Weiss. The letters after .925 may indicate that it's electroplated with sterling silver. You can test it with a Sigma electronic tester or file a tiny notch in an obscure location and test it with nitric acid. A friendly local jeweler could help you with this. Let us know what you find out.

    Don’t worry I have the nitric acid testing kit and it does test as sterling silver.

    Did you cut through the surface with a small jeweler's file before applying the nitric acid?

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  • KliaoKliao Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yes then scratched it on the scratching stone

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,238 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sounds like a good score! :) What's next? Send it to a refinery?

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  • KliaoKliao Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don’t think so. I have yet to find a refinery so either I sell it or let it sit in my bin.

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow... Nice score... and glad the test validated your expectations.... wish I could find stuff like that around here. Found a couple of salt/pepper shakers... sterling silver encased glass...cannot tell the weight of silver without destruction. Cheers, RickO

  • KliaoKliao Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    Wow... Nice score... and glad the test validated your expectations.... wish I could find stuff like that around here. Found a couple of salt/pepper shakers... sterling silver encased glass...cannot tell the weight of silver without destruction. Cheers, RickO

    This was found at a goodwill that had nothing for a long time. If the salt and pepper shakers are In Good condition, with no dents or anything they should sell on eBay for above scrap.

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,231 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Awesome find!

  • sbeverlysbeverly Posts: 962 ✭✭✭

    Very nice, That stuff doesn't last on the shelves around here for long. The cake server that I got last week was just put out when I got it.

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  • KliaoKliao Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don’t know how long the was on the shelf for but it was behind all the glass vases on the top shelf

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  • LukeMarshallLukeMarshall Posts: 1,983 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I went to the local yesterday, and literally the guy that walked in before me went straight to the silverplate (goblets, serving trays, ECT) and started flipping stuff over.
    I saw a guy with a loop looking at the chains and bracelets last week.
    I didn't see any Sterling, but as they say 'you won't unless you try'
    Nice score on the vase kliao

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  • Jinx86Jinx86 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Weekend flea market finds. The candle sticks were damaged so junked those quickly. Ended up with 1.66ozt asw for $10. The real winner is the Clinton day/date from the 60's. Once cleaned and polished should bring $130, paid $2.

  • KliaoKliao Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow nice finds!

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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,364 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Careful with that nitric acid.

    So much for my sugar bowl and tea pot. Seems nobody in the market wants .925, despite the maker's marks. .

  • KliaoKliao Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Did you cast them yourself?

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like .925... but at thrift store prices...not melt... ;) Cheers, RickO

  • KliaoKliao Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    I like .925... but at thrift store prices...not melt... ;) Cheers, RickO

    I think Garage sale prices are better

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,231 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yesterday’s score... 8.13 ozt ASW
    $10 junk shop, not goodwill

  • KliaoKliao Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow that’s a nice find. Other than flatware I don’t find much of the big stuff

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  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,899 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Is that 55 g. or 174 g.? Either way, nice score!

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  • KliaoKliao Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jmski52 said:
    Is that 55 g. or 174 g.? Either way, nice score!

    174g. 5.5 Troy oz.

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  • orioles93orioles93 Posts: 3,475 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 5, 2019 10:53PM

    cool stuff. I found a small plate recently, and don't know much about it. The back says S Kirk & Son Sterling 127. Any idea what it would be worth and if its worth more than scrap?

    Also picked up a bowl, almost like a trophy bowl. I think it is silver, but not sure. It just says SMYTH on the bottom and nothing else. It is tarnished and I was able to get some off.

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  • SoldiSoldi Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Kliao said:

    @rte592 said:
    $1.99.
    Probably started life on someone's head stone with flowers when it.
    Polishing may reveal the Original owner.

    I don’t think on a headstone, it said mostly in weddings from what I found

    either way you're dead

  • KliaoKliao Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 6, 2019 5:24AM

    @orioles93 said:
    cool stuff. I found a small plate recently, and don't know much about it. The back says S Kirk & Son Sterling 127. Any idea what it would be worth and if its worth more than scrap?

    Also picked up a bowl, almost like a trophy bowl. I think it is silver, but not sure. It just says SMYTH on the bottom and nothing else. It is tarnished and I was able to get some off.

    The sterling bowl could sell for more if there no damage of any sort. I don’t think the SMYTH bowl is not silver.

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  • orioles93orioles93 Posts: 3,475 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Kliao said:

    @orioles93 said:
    cool stuff. I found a small plate recently, and don't know much about it. The back says S Kirk & Son Sterling 127. Any idea what it would be worth and if its worth more than scrap?

    Also picked up a bowl, almost like a trophy bowl. I think it is silver, but not sure. It just says SMYTH on the bottom and nothing else. It is tarnished and I was able to get some off.

    The sterling bowl could sell for more if there no damage of any sort. I don’t think the SMYTH bowl is not silver.

    it has an engraving on the front about a country club golf winner and has some scratches

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  • KliaoKliao Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I can’t seem to find any information on that company. If it’s American made nearly all the time it will say sterling if it’s silver

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,231 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @orioles93 said:
    cool stuff. I found a small plate recently, and don't know much about it. The back says S Kirk & Son Sterling 127. Any idea what it would be worth and if its worth more than scrap?

    Also picked up a bowl, almost like a trophy bowl. I think it is silver, but not sure. It just says SMYTH on the bottom and nothing else. It is tarnished and I was able to get some off.

    Post a picture of the Smyth bowl the mark

  • orioles93orioles93 Posts: 3,475 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Here are pics of the bowl. That mark is the only thing on it. I couldn't find anything on any company named SMYTH with a logo like that. My best guess is the bowl is from somewhere in the 30s-50s.


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  • KliaoKliao Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The bowl has rainbow toning in it which is not silver for most of the time. Can you get it tested?

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  • orioles93orioles93 Posts: 3,475 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 9, 2019 7:06PM

    @Kliao said:
    The bowl has rainbow toning in it which is not silver for most of the time. Can you get it tested?

    I dont think it is silver either. I got it for next to nothing so i took the chance. I just wasnt sure if anyone ever even saw that mark or heard of the company before.

    Heres the plate I got. I know this one is real.

    ***If anyone has interest in the plate, I am selling. Just pm me.


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  • KliaoKliao Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 6, 2019 12:37PM

    Wow that’s a nice plate

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  • kwags24kwags24 Posts: 27 ✭✭
    edited September 6, 2019 12:28PM

    For Kirk look at the stieff company, Smyth is a jeweler. Both in Baltimore, MD

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