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

You could try some local auction houses.

Geoff

Unfortunatly, I believe that due to the high price of silver what you describe is the norm as its worth more as bullion

Antique dealers?

Antique dealers, schisters with a posh accent
Cash in the attic show??

Oh yeah, forgot about antique dealers. Lol

Dare I say it. . . ebay?

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.

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.

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