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WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I...couldn't...resist its siren song

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We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
--Severian the Lame

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  • WingsruleWingsrule Posts: 3,010 ✭✭✭✭
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  • gsa1fangsa1fan Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
    Nice pick up! For a man who is through buying your stacking some serious PM's latelyimage
    Avid collector of GSA's.
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Nice pick up! For a man who is through buying your stacking some serious PM's latelyimage >>



    I think I managed to spend more in the last week than I have in the last four or five months image
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • DarinDarin Posts: 7,043 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It looks like you smelted when you heard its siren song.
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sheffield Smelting apparently has direct roots going back to the 1700s. They were bought out by another company called Thessco several years ago. I'd love to know when this bar was made, so I emailed Thessco off of their website last night to ask if they had any idea based on stamp, serial number, style.

    Would you believe I got an answer back just now?

    Dear Sir,

    I am sorry but we do not have any records of Sheffield Smelting Company serial numbers. The only definite information that I can give is that no Sheffield Smelting Company bars have been made since 1984 when Thessco took over the site.

    Best regards,

    Andrew Reichwald
    Thessco

    Something about the bar just looks 1960s or even earlier. But I'll take definite pre-1984 image


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    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • guitarwesguitarwes Posts: 9,266 ✭✭✭

    very cool bar. neat that they responded to you with a semi-definitive answer.

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  • gsa1fangsa1fan Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
    Like the visual much better on the bar in second round of pics.image

    Rare to get a reply from the company. Are they still selling silver bars?
    Avid collector of GSA's.
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Like the visual much better on the bar in second round of pics.image

    Rare to get a reply from the company. Are they still selling silver bars? >>



    Looks like they do, but I believe it's just 1,000 LBMA/good delivery bars. It is rare and somewhat unexpected. I emailed Reed and Barton back in September of last year asking for info on my Mayflower medals. They responded that they'd research and get back to me.

    I'm still waiting image
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
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