Featured Russian Silver Box?

I was very surprised yesterday to see a legitimate Sterling mark on lovely bowl that had been in a donation to the thrift I volunteer at.

 

Jewish folks are not allowed to be buried with any metal........so either I sell off my stuff........or my wife and daughter get it.........and they get to sell it........

better start selling now !!!!!

 

did ya snag it ?????

 

Are you kidding? We don't to that there. Besides it had not been priced yet.

 

r u allowed once it's priced....???

 

hey....I didn't say to steal it !!

 

We cannot buy something that has not been on the floor for at least an hour in which we have been open.

 

sounds fair.......thank you...!!

now scuttle on over there and hide it behind some new pots and pans...!



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just kidding..................................................................... kinda

 

Truer words were never spoken!!!

Between here & the old eBay boards I have lost count of the number of things that I wouldn't have looked at twice if I had not seen the piece in someone's post.

I'm just curious does he sell it to buyers at scrap or a little above or does he price each individual item?

 

I actually didn’t know that! Hope you don’t have any tattoos!

At least if they know what’a silver and what can be scrapped vs. sold for collector value they can save it for an opportune time. ….Or sell next big spike.

 

No, Sir...no tats !!

I try to mark the stuff I have.....but wife is mostly disinterested in my stuff.....and daughter is a space cadet when it comes to any art that's not her art ...

 

We're trying to liquidate a lot of our better items,the kids don't get it.Folks from our generation all collected something.
It's great youngsters at least enjoy MCM,not much else-but at least that.

 

Maybe the absence of young collectors is why 2 S.Army, 2 St.Vincent's & 1 Discovery Shop have closed here in the last few years ?
The metro population here's 2.2 million.

 

Surprisingly enough, there are more and more young people buying stuff at the flee markets and antique shops here. Kind of hype.

 

The '80s really reduced the quantity of antique silver available. I saw people lined up around a city block waiting to get to a scrapper.

There's very little pre-18th C French silver because the government of the day required it to be melted down to finance the military.

This is exactly what would happen with my relatives. They wouldn't even look at it: they'd just toss it. Call in Davey so they wouldn't have to be distracted from the day's baseball game.

 

He prices everything individually, he has a good business selling gold and silver jewelry to mostly tourists.

I can usually talk him down to just over scrap when I buy, but when I brought in something to sell he really low balled me! I took it somewhere else

 

The early 80's met a kid working at our local mom & pop market who'd been saving customers silver coins for years.He was probably 25,he bought a house when the Hunt Bros ran up the price of silver in the 70's.
That's what I call a collector !

 

I hope you were able to "talk him down to just over scrap" on this one!!

 

How do you mark it? Like literally in what way are you doing it? I’d like to start doing that but sticky stuff is sticky and tying little tags to things sounds like a lot of work.

 

post it notes 'super sticky' is my paper of choice .
it can be cut to size......using only the thick band of ....sticky part...for smaller items, or cut down to the needed size and folded so enuf sticky...sticks to the item.

if the surface is not flat ...crunching the sticky part will most often still give the required adhesion .....

The little tags work too....with string attached .....if there's a place to tie it on....or u can just drop it in a salt shaker , or vesta.....or between silver and glass ...of a salt cellar ......

I'm actively thinking about placing certain smalls in those flat sealable plastic bag/sleeves.....where the tag would work too.

I once tried listing certain lots on a file card or cards.....but then I had to keep track of ....the piece I sold, or gave to family members , or....... that didn't work out well.