Featured Tiffany and Co. Sterling Tray

Only melt silver if it can't be sold (ie - it's broken or in some other way unsellable). Everything else, I keep, or sell as is.

 

Yes, I hear you. Definitely felt mixed emotions about melting sets of Grand Baroque, S Kirk Repouse’, ONC Moulton (hand wrought). All tea sets, most goblets (kept Schofield, Tiffany and Jensen) are now in the form of bars.

We are building a home and with the refinery only taking 9%, it worked out to be the best option. To your point, sad indeed!

 

Well, it comes down to the cut that the intermediaries are taking. The auction houses are crazy with buyers and sellers commissions and then you add in sales tax and delivery charges. This was a simple 9% off spot silver.

 

I hear you! Melting S Kirk makes me cringe but I do get it. Lotta hassle to sell to a collector and recover that much. Silver is down in the 24’s today and I’m already regretting not making a harder push to unload some. I can’t bring myself to melt it personally but I should have tried to let it go at melt to some collectors I’m familiar with. Getting just melt at $28, is a lot better than getting 50% above melt when it’s at $15. Hard to realize that sometimes when it counts lol.