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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MrNate, post: 341317, member: 5515&quot;]Admittedly, I went to a LOT of stores this weekend. I never know exactly what is going to happen, but with the frequency of silver finds I&#039;ve had lately, it&#039;s pretty easy to get disappointed on those days that it just &quot;doesn&#039;t happen.&quot; I remind myself often that finding silver is a rare occurrence, and to not to feel discouraged on any one day that I come up empty handed. By some miracle, that didn&#039;t happen on Saturday or today. I went out yesterday with the goal of going to as many stores as I could in the day. It was on my third store on Saturday that I found some luck.</p><p><br /></p><p>After my first hour of hunting two stores (and driving) I traveled to a store that has given up a few nice silver pieces in the past. I know that this store gets scoured by other collectors, and I have talked to a few of them when I visit the store. The store isn&#039;t super close to where I live, so I don&#039;t have the luxury of frequent visitation. I started to look at the section where they place all the plated items, and it looked about the same as last time I visited. After thoroughly looking everything over, I realized I wasn&#039;t going to find silver today. I turned my attention to the rest of the store for resale items. After searching through the rest of the store (and also coming up empty) as I was about to leave the store I spotted something on my way out. This particular store has these big blue storage carts on wheels that they use to move out all the items to the store floor. I walked towards it, and at the bottom I saw this large silver looking dish (bon bon dish?). My heart starts racing; who knows if it&#039;s plated or real, but I know that it&#039;s unlikely that anyone else in the store has checked it out. I grab it and it has a promising feel, it isn&#039;t too heavy to be plated, and it looks right, and when I flip it over, I see that wonderful word &quot;STERLING&quot; nice and clear on the back! This thing is big! I quickly went to pay at the register and make my way to more stores. The remaining stores were rather uneventful and my Saturday evening wrapped up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today, I decided to try a different part of the city and see what luck I could find. I went to a store about 15 minutes north of me. This store has only produced a very small silver item for me in the past, so I was mainly visiting the store to see if I could find any resell-able items. I was scanning through the store when I got to the metal/flatware section of the store. This store has a very small amount of plated silver items; never a good sign for finding silver. I&#039;m looking through the same aisle I&#039;ve scanned probably 30 times before and there I see a couple little cordial glasses. My hopes are up, and I&#039;m both nervous and excited at the possibility that they could be real, I flip one over and sure enough it says sterling on the bottom! This is my first time finding any sort of cup/goblet/cordial so I was super excited. The fact that they aren&#039;t weighted and a good thickness made it that much more exciting. I continued to search through many stores today and came across one weighted sterling glass bowl (nothing amazing, but I&#039;ll take it) and I called it a day. Between the dish, the two cordials and the bowl, I paid $8. I hope you enjoy the photos. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]114889[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]114891[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]114892[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]114893[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]114894[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]114895[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]114896[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]114898[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]114897[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]114899[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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