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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MrNate, post: 309241, member: 5515&quot;]Wow wow wow wow wow today was a really fun day!</p><p><br /></p><p>I decided to spend the afternoon hopping from as many thrift stores as I could in my local area. Actually, my day started stopping by a vintage stereo store to see if they would buy some speakers I found recently (that turned out to be a complete waste of my time) but after that ended my attention turned back to hunting for goodies. I can&#039;t remember if it was my first or second store, but very early on in my day, I hit the silver JACKPOT! The store I was at had recently received a donation of a bunch of flatware. Whenever I&#039;m looking at flatware, I try to look for yellowish pieces, usually a good indication of something that &quot;might&quot; be silver. There was an entire box of yellowish flatware. I grabbed the first piece and it read &quot;community plate&quot; and I thought I was out of luck. I decided to take a look through it a bit more thoroughly, and after a few plate pieces it wasn&#039;t looking promising, until I once again saw that magic word &quot;sterling&quot;...I couldn&#039;t believe it. I imagine that if anyone else had looked in it (i&#039;m honestly not sure how long they had been there as I had last visited that store about a week before), they probably grabbed a few pieces, read &quot;community plate&quot; and moved on with their day.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I was in hunt mode, I had about three bins of silverware to sort through, I would search through a bunch, and then another identical pattern sterling silver spoon/fork/knife would show up in my hands. It was so exciting, my hands were actually a bit shaky at the excitement of just how many I would find. I stumbled upon some knives with the same pattern, and I couldn&#039;t find a sterling mark so I decided to leave them (don&#039;t worry I didn&#039;t make that fatal error). After a good 30 minutes, I felt confident I had discovered all that could be found, so it was time to go pay for it. I&#039;m always a little nervous when I find sterling silver in a store when I go to pay...What if they see it&#039;s sterling silver too and they suddenly decide they won&#039;t sell it for next to nothing?...Of course if they do that, I&#039;m just stuck, but luckily it hasn&#039;t happened yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>I get to the front counter and the cashier counts all the flatware, and then she says that wonderful, magical, mystical phrase: &quot;sir, your total is $2.96.&quot; Ummm....yeah, I&#039;ll pay that. I briskly take my horde back to my car, and I decide to head back to double check I didn&#039;t leave anything behind. Coming back to my senses in the last 5 minutes, I grab the 5 knives with the same pattern as the rest of the pile. Ummm....okay sure I&#039;ll pay 92 cents...</p><p><br /></p><p>The rest of my day was filled with the excitement of what I had just found, I CAN&#039;T BELIEVE that moment where luck and skill collide...I continued looking through a good number of stores, and towards the end of my day, lady luck hit me upside the head with a BIG LADLE marked 800! I really couldn&#039;t believe it. That one really set me back at $2.22... And with that, my day came to a close, a truly unbelievable hunt for me. I have photos below (yes, I&#039;ve already polished them, I was so excited to get them home and clean them off). Total weight of everything is 2 lbs 13 oz.</p><p><br /></p><p>So...Does anyone have any idea of the hallmark on the ladle? My buddy thought it might be German, but I haven&#039;t found a match yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]102087[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]102088[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]102089[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]102090[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]102092[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]102094[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]102093[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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