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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;J Dagger, post: 9431440, member: 10944&quot;]Great score for $20! I’m jealous. Silvers back up over $25 too!</p><p><br /></p><p>I haven’t found any wild silver in a while. A couple weeks ago I had a mega exciting find and eventual mega let down. I’ve been visiting a house on trash day once per week for the last month or so. They are emptying the entire homes contents into the trash a curb full at a time. Recently there was a huge pile of silver hollowware. Hidden behind a headboard so I was pretty sure no other trash pickers had seen it. I knew it wasn’t a wealthy home but I knew they were somewhat prosperous for at least a couple generations. I figured in the big pile I was going to score at least one sterling piece. Waited until I got home and had sorted everything else to check it. Turns out there wasn’t a single piece! I did pull a small piece of Herend porcelain out of a trash bag though that week. </p><p><br /></p><p>I did catch an auction “mistake” somewhat recently though. They were selling a lot of silverplate with one piece of sterling in it. It was advertised as such but the silver piece was mentioned at the end of the title and they didn’t use the word “sterling”. Anyone who read it quickly would just see “plated” and move on. For the silver buyers that entered the search term “sterling” it didn’t show up. It was no mega score but $250 melt value hammered at $75 and came with some silver plated items. Had they cataloged it properly it would have probably hammered at $175 at least.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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