richardh
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| posted on 1/9/12 at 04:11 PM |
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Selling silverware
Anyone got any ideas where's best to get silverware valued and then sold?
These high street schisters just put them on scales and give you feck all.
Due to cost of living in this bloody island, my pensioner mother is having to sell off family heirlooms and we want the items to not just be melted
down for trash jewellery for pikeys.
We're talking stuff dated in the 1860's
Cheers
Time for a change!
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gdische
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| posted on 1/9/12 at 04:20 PM |
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You could try some local auction houses.
Geoff
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ReMan
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| posted on 1/9/12 at 05:10 PM |
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Unfortunatly, I believe that due to the high price of silver what you describe is the norm as its worth more as bullion
www.plusnine.co.uk
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rusty nuts
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| posted on 1/9/12 at 05:22 PM |
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Antique dealers?
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snapper
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| posted on 1/9/12 at 05:34 PM |
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Antique dealers, schisters with a posh accent
Cash in the attic show??
I eat to survive
I drink to forget
I breath to pi55 my ex wife off (and now my ex partner)
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richardh
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| posted on 1/9/12 at 06:16 PM |
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Oh yeah, forgot about antique dealers. Lol 
Time for a change!
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Confused but excited.
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| posted on 1/9/12 at 07:47 PM |
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Dare I say it. . . ebay?
Tell them about the bent treacle edges!
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mark chandler
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| posted on 1/9/12 at 07:56 PM |
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I have a box full of spoons, took them to an antique shop who just declared worth scrap value and offered me £125, I still have a box full of spoons
as lost interest.
The silver cutlery set I also have are a pattern you can still obtain today, amazingly! A few knives and forks are missing, he tried to sell me a few
bits to complete the set which would have been more than the £125 he offered for the lot.... in his catalogue the various bits were over £25 per
item!!!
Looking at Ebay you should consider breaking down into small lots and selling here.
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BenB
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| posted on 2/9/12 at 09:01 AM |
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Silvers a wierd one, even a lot of the antique silver dealers weight stuff and pay accordingly. Unless the items are really nice scrapping gets about
the same money and of course is quick, you don't have to weight until someone pitches up wanting to buy that particular item. So by all means
take it to an auction or antique shop but you might actually get less than if you weighed it in yourself as they'll take a cut.
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Simon
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| posted on 2/9/12 at 09:50 AM |
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Unfortunately you'll prob find it is only worth the scrap value - a foundry/jeweller that we use to cast small bits and pieces buys cutlery etc
from ebay etc as it's cheaper than buying new - after hall marked silver is quality stuff, and once they melt it down it gets made into other
silver goods which are then hall marked again.
ATB
Simon
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