Went to a garage sale today and found a 4 piece silver tea set for $8.00. My wife thought I was nuts for wanting to buy it so I passed it up. Should I go back and buy it?
Experienced Scrapper
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Went to a garage sale today and found a 4 piece silver tea set for $8.00. My wife thought I was nuts for wanting to buy it so I passed it up. Should I go back and buy it?
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Make sure its not silver plate and YES!Originally Posted by puckett
Experienced Scrapper
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it was really tarnished
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Here is a link Online Encyclopedia of Silver Marks, Hallmarks & Makers' Marks has silver plate and sterling patterns and makers marks and such...
Experienced Scrapper
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just went and double checked the set. it's silver plate on copper
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#2 copper at the very least..what does it weigh?
Experienced Scrapper
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the pot its heavy maybe a couple pounds
Experienced Scrapper
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3 pounds 11.5 ounces for everything
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Meh...maybe if you can talk them down a few more bucks. At 2.00 a pound, you might do a little better than even if you can get them down to 4 or 5 bucks.
Remember, it's a garage sale, they're looking to get rid of stuff, not make money
"Don't try to be a great man, just be a man. Let history make its own judgments"
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and if you get it for cheap...shine hat puppy up and throw it up on CL/facebook yard sale groups and/or ebay...bet you get more than scrap value for it if in decent condition...
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All of this. We flip and resell yard sale finds all the time. Good money in it.
Experienced Scrapper
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I also found a small 6 piece set of silver plated silverware. I'm going to clean it all up and post it on CL for a few weeks.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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i buy old silver plated stuff all the time...i used to sell it to the junk yard for copper...now i get a little more than copper price per pound to a different guy...which works out great since he is interested in the silver content, i can also sell him the die cast stuff for good money.....of course i always check ebay first
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Some people keep a stash of silver plated items as a decoy for would be thieves. If they stole that not as bad, as if they found your good stuff.
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That's smart!
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