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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MrNate, post: 311132, member: 5515&quot;]Hi Everyone!</p><p><br /></p><p>Well.... I certainly wasn&#039;t expecting to be posting again this soon, and DEFINITELY not for such a fantastic find. I have been on a hot streak indeed, and I&#039;m just grateful for the opportunities that I have found. Today, once again, I went out on a marathon thrift store hunt. I can&#039;t even tell you how many stores I went to, but I went to a lot of the stores I went to during my last post. This time around, the stores that had goodies last time didn&#039;t produce much, but <u>one of the other stores coughed up some amazing finds</u>.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 2nd or 3rd store I visited was one of the ones I happened to find silver in last time, and after sifting through the flatware, I came across a &quot;sneaky&quot; knife with a sterling silver handle. I grabbed a couple other non-silver goodies and continued on my hunt.</p><p><br /></p><p>Later on tonight, I went back to a store that keeps all of it&#039;s silver plated flatware behind the counter. I realized that last time I went there, I didn&#039;t do a very diligent search through the plated stuff; this time I decided I would look at it all. BOY was that a good move, I&#039;m not sure if new stuff arrived in the store, or I just overlooked it last time I visited, but I hit the silver jackpot. I started rummaging through the box of flatware, and then I grabbed a set of spoons held together by a rubber band. As I glanced the marks on the back, I see Fapanni &amp; Frugoni 800 SIAP....My blood starts pumping because I know I have something great. I have to keep my cool though,&nbsp; because there&#039;s other customers around and the lady that was helping me is standing right next to me at the cash register. I&#039;m sifting through the flatware and I see some marks I&#039;m not familiar with (I posted pictures of those too, if anyone can help me identify that would be great; I&#039;m guessing these might be old plated stuff, but I&#039;d still love to I.D. them) and then I grab another set of spoons held together with a rubber band and those say 800 SIAP also! In the boxes, I found one more smaller spoon with the same marks.</p><p><br /></p><p>I get through both boxes of flatware and I am all set to check out (that nervous moment) and the cashier asks me &quot;are you looking for silver&quot;?...So I tell her honestly I am, and she wants to know how I know it&#039;s real silver....I&#039;m a bit torn here, because I know the thrift store that I hunt at the workers are trained to look for real silver. If they find something made of silver, that item will never make it out to the floor, it just gets listed on their online auction system. While polite (and mostly honest) I tell her that I&#039;m actually not sure if it&#039;s real silver, and I will have to check when I get home to be sure (not a lie, but also not revealing what I truly know). As much as I want to be excited and share with her the knowledge I have of silver marks, this is neither the place or the time. The more knowledge that thrift store workers have about silver marks, the lower my odds of finding more in the future. We finish talking and she rings me up at 75 cents per piece!</p><p><br /></p><p>So, there are lots of photos below. The first photo are all items I know to be either sterling or 80% silver. There&#039;s some photos below of items which might just be plated, but I would love if some of the experts on the site could provide some certainty. Thanks in advance, it&#039;s really rewarding for me to share my stories here.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]102933[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]102934[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]102935[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]102936[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]102938[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]102939[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]102937[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]102940[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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