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odd silver bar on ebay

bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 10,211 ✭✭✭✭✭
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russian bar?


I've never seen a bar like this before maybe someone here is interested assuming its real of course .


I have no connection to the seller

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  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks cool !!!
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  • OnlyGoldIsMoneyOnlyGoldIsMoney Posts: 3,358 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nothing I have seen before.

    The Soviets tended to conduct matters on a massive scale (except for consumer goods).

    Somehow such a small bar does not seem quite right.
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,111 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The "CCCP" on the bar is Russian for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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  • PokermandudePokermandude Posts: 2,713 ✭✭✭
    Strange indeed. I don't understand why it would have holes like that. From the pics it's pretty likely that it isn't silver, IMO.
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  • Jinx86Jinx86 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Now thats a cool piece. Looks like it could be a silver plating item for industrial use. Ive had some like it but with one hole on the end the long end to hang.
  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,012 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Strange indeed. I don't understand why it would have holes like that. From the pics it's pretty likely that it isn't silver, IMO. >>




    I wonder
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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,115 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Now thats a cool piece. Looks like it could be a silver plating item for industrial use. Ive had some like it but with one hole on the end the long end to hang. >>



    That was my thought. Note the pitted areas. If you hung it by either hole, the opposite end would hang at an angle in a plating bath of some sort.
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  • bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 10,211 ✭✭✭✭✭


    If it had been used in plating how can you be sure the weight wasn't stamped on it before it was used? maybe its no longer an accurate weight?

    The seller had it listed at 750 or BO last time around with no takers so maybe it will get another price cut to 250image
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,111 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Interesting but not something I would care to own even at close to melt.

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  • NumbersUsacomNumbersUsacom Posts: 1,457 ✭
    It's perdrilled so you can verify its authenticityimage
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  • GRANDAMGRANDAM Posts: 8,505 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The holes are where the blade bolted to the frame of the Russian Guillotine image

    JMHO, GrandAm image
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  • DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,307 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No thanks!
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