Hi thank you so much for watching and tell your grandma I said hi! These items are for sale on my Etsy, ebay or sometimes in my posh store.

If I misunderstood you and you are asking about how much to sell your silver to your grandma, I don't know unless I saw them or saw pictures, most sterling silver only goes for the silver price (melt, value, you have to weigh your silver to know), if you talking plated items, it depends on condition and what it is, and I can't even know where to start trying to appraise it without seeing it.

Yep, Aesthic silver plate was so cool, and yep, it can fool you, you know, don't overpay when you take shots in the dark but you already know that. When you hit, you hit

@@gmgssilverplate I try never to pay much for anything, then I am never disappointed! Of course, I never sell anything either, so I can't exactly recoup even part of a hit... ;)

Thanks for your response. I appreciate input even if it's not necessarily what I want to hear. I did separate out the pieces that had more wear than the others, but I think I'll keep them around a bit. I have pleeeennnty of silverplate that I end up destroying, but these are legit antiques and on average they aren't in terrible shape. My entire focus is to try to preserve antique silver plate, and one other thing, there might be a ton of baguette flatware in France, but if I can sell it on Etsy or ebay, maybe someone on the other side of the globe is looking specifically for X company's silverware, if that makes sense. I've had one instance where I sold a piece for a rather large profit because the buyer claimed he was the great grandchild of the original silversmith.

That's most likely my post there lol

Wow that's awesome! I'm so glad your finding real silver and able to put a maker behind it! And this is a really old video! I can barely even recognize it! But I'm I've been able to learn so much since then and I hope you stick around.

I'm sorry, I don't. I'm always trying to make connections with other collectors though, I know you said you didn't have time to go through ebay but I did see an ebay account with hotel silver in their name, so they might be willing to buy your collection but I can't find that exact account right now, they had thousands of feedback though when I saw it.

Those Victorians were a feisty bunch. Who doesn't like a warm spoon on a cold evening? Lol

I respect your opinion a ton, and what you said makes a ton of sense. The collector is a very fickle beast.

@gmgssilverplate thank you!! Yes, the collector is very fickle. It's just so damn expensive to get repairs done in silver that you really have to weigh out the costs. I see amazing pieces of silver, such as Tiffany, going to the melter because silver is so high, and many just don't want the perceived burden of maintenance. Sad! 😟

I've only paid repairs for a butler tray, Christopher Wren by Wallace, with a broken foot when it got to me, and the lid of a coffee urn by Redfield and Rice, and they both cost me a consider amount, the Christopher Wren was a success, as it let me squeak a tiny bit of profit but more importantly I was able to save the tray and get it to the hands of a happy buyer, but then the second time I got the same piece it broke when I shipped it out to my buyer, I tell you Christopher Wren is my cursed Pattern. The Redfield and Rice urn is still sitting in my store currently freezing is butt off, as New Mexico has had an early winter storm, but come to think of it, I might have to start slashing prices on that piece. I agree overall with you, that the repairers of silver are not many, and they know that they have us by the balls.

@gmgssilverplate I found that it's only really worth repairing antique silver as mass manufactured pieces tend not to retain their value after a repair. Old Sheffield Plate, on the other hand, can be a nightmare! You have to have someone who knows what they are doing! Those are few and far between

It still has silver, the "electroplated" refers to silver electroplated on a nickel silver base.

If you come across a piece that is only marked "nickel silver" and I have seen some, then it literally has no silver.

Hello, Please see this www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=51879 The key mark indicates that it is Bremen silver.

This source as well. www.smpub.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/003300.html

Yep you are absolutely right, I think it was for either for water or wine, oil or vinegar makes sense too, can call it a jug as well. I called it a tea pot as my first instinct but said it didn't look like any tea pots I had come across!

Hi thanks for watching and I'm glad you like the content. It's at least $350 in melt right now, but I'm trying to research the maker and if there's any potential that it would go higher for melt. If I were to sell it though, we would need to do it through a site like Reddit pmsforsale, and I would only take cryptocurrency or a moneyorder.

Um, you will have to be more specific. I show a lot of different things in my videos and I tell you whether something is actually silver in them.

I had an old silver cup too but I can't find it.

Thank you! As frustrating as it was that it happened in the first place, trying to file a claim to the post office was a completely different experience in frustration and futility! I'll finish the series talking about that, and I'll strip the tray of it's silver, at least I took the feet off so if someone damages theirs, they can find a replacement.

@@gmgssilverplate I still think there’s money to be made. You could sell the platter broken. People like me would buy it to use as a backdrop in a bookcase or on a mantle. A strategically placed plant or books would hide the missing handle.

Ahhh darn I didn't think that someone would still want it 😔 Instead all I was thinking is how I could recoup most value, and thought recovering the feet and the other handle, filing a damage claim, then scrapping it of its silver would give me the best chance to recoup what I spent on it. I'll remember what you said if this ever happens again.

Iirc I never even had time to list any of those and they are still sitting somewhere. Which ones were you interested in purchasing? I'll put them in one of my stores.

You have to understand the South Park joke. Step 1- Collect underpants. Step two ???? Step three - Profit! I'm trying to relate that to selling silver plate. Or in my case, hording too much inventory, because I have no idea how to sell it all. Most silver plate is about as desirable as used underpants. So when I find something I know I can profit off of, the underpants (the undesirables that came with the profitable pieces) remain in a giant pile.

Also, I am as irrationally as obsessed with silver plate as they are with the underpants!

Ok got that good luck with your selling the comunion set is lovely 😁

I love the way you pointed out what now is obvious now that you mention it, that a mass-producible and simple (but I still believe kind of elegant) pattern would be the antithesis of the art movements. I wonder how a critic contemporary to late 19th century Paris would have received these pieces... From what we have discussed, not well, I would imagine.

​@@gmgssilverplatethat's an interesting question. From a designer point of view, he would definately find it old-fashioned and in need of some "modernity". However, I hope it would have been obvious even to a critic that the French art nouveau style was way more expensive to create and the style wouldn't have been loved by all. The Nouveau movement remained a bourgeosie thing at the end of the day. It would not have been feasible to equip the whole of Paris with nouveau cutlery, it was simply too expensive. I hope the ceitics would have understood the neccessity for a common pattern and would have been able to appreciate Baguette's elegant simplicity in that light

Yep, well said, there's a reason why it fits so well in today's homes, and survives and is still popular to this day, it definitely looks like a design that would have been developed and loved in the 1960s and did well in suburban homes. The wealthier French certainly could be snobbish, but back then they didn't have social media as an outlet. They probably kept their opinions like that to themselves, or more likely had more important things to think about.

One more thing, would absolutely love to see your ephemera. If it makes it easier, you could always post it on my reddit forum r/silverplate.

Thank you for watching. Flair is maybe .50-$1 in current prices for basic pieces like tea spoon and salad forks, it is a common pattern and not well demanded. 1847 Rogers Bros is a plated line, it is always plated. To know if it is real you need to see "sterling" marking. This is just a very fast basic run down.

What?

Ah! Thank you! I know, it was pretty awesome that it came to me complete. And thanks, I've heard the word flagon before, didn't come to mind that day, but never heard of a paten.

I'm not sure what you mean, KZbin isn't showing the thumbs up on comments? Sad

Thank you for tuning in! I hope everything is good across the pond.

@@gmgssilverplate hi again just fed the garden birds and i have 4 pet girl mice with me 27/7 as im house bound they are 1 yr old now so fully little clowns and 15 yr old border collie Jenny my shadow xx granny eileen

I love mice, that sounds really fun watching them scurry around and eat. And give your shadow a hug for me!

Thanks for letting us know. I've not seen a knife sharpener like that before.

That's the same conclusion I came to, sadly. I am having a rough time trying to remove the other handle, it is definitely soldered on there pretty good.

Bro! I found some Cartier cloths and threw them in my store, I didn't realize about washing them until recently, so I did wash some that I pulled out of flatware boxes. I won't do that again. Hopefully my Cartier cloths will give me a nice profit. I am selling 8 of them for 25 a piece.

I bet someone will take you up on them at some point. They are small and easy to store so even if it takes a year or two it’s no big deal. You can always make them harder to resist by lowering the price if needed. I usually send offers out on them for at least 25% off as I know they aren’t fast sellers.

Yeah, they are rare and getting rarer, but they're still out there, and anyone can still afford to pick up a pair! And I know! I wish I could save everything, but I can't! It takes a lot to pay storage and packaging supplies to run my store, not to mention gas and food to make it to the next week... And I'm trying to sell a sterling weighted bud vase, art nouveau 800 salt cellars, a beautiful pepper mill, and now some Tiffany pieces for higher than sterling melt so whoever will buy them can't melt it for a profit themselves, and they've been sitting in my store for years and months! Heck, what will end up happening is the spot price will catch up to my asking price and sometime will pick them up n off to the smelter. On the other hand though, the market has never been better for someone with a shrewd eye to pick up some incredible silver on the cheap. I found all this for 15 dollars, and I share my finds for everyone to see so they can do the same!

Crazy! Thanks for the info Rich! I need to order another loupe, haven't seen mine in months. And man, is old Sheffield plate complicated! And underneath the handle it is unmarked. I assume the older ones are more common and less valuable huh.

Are you sure? 😁 I was hoping that just dilute hcl not heated up would not be strong enough to reach with the silver n form a chloride, usually you need nitric to react with ag.

Yes. That is silver chloride. The electrolysis is creating silver ions that immediately combind with the chlorine in the muriatic acid (HCl). Often, nitric acid is used to electroplate silver. It is a more expensive acid but your silver yield will be better and with fewer steps.

It will form silver nitrate if adding nitric to the water and doing the electrolysis, no? So it's basically the same problem?

I might just go back to salt water. lol

The advantage nitric acid has over muriatic acid is that the silver nitrate IS soluble and stays in solution and is therefore much more efficient in the electroplating process. There are quite a few KZbin videos on this process. Streetips is one such KZbin channel that refines silver in large, multi-pound, batches using nitric acid. You have a great channel and you are definately on the right track.

Ahhh, yes I remember that i think it's called the Archimedes principle! Very cool! Thank you for demonstrating it in such great detail for us!

Thanks for the response, I know that heavy plated pieces are tricking xrf scanners, I wish I had a sigma to use. Overall, it never did get settled, I refused that they cut into it, if it is real its melt value is miniscule, and I didn't want to damage it. Hopefully it will be worth something some day. I will just keep it. And that is a bit scary. I come across silver in plated boxes and when I find fake sterling I can often take a huge hit. Of course I can afford it because it doesn't happen very often. I remembered my friend found and went for a Mexican "silver" cake stand, I told him dude be very very careful, since cake stands are too big to make from sterling, and I was right that it was fake.

@@gmgssilverplate The Sigma is definitely very handy - but with a sterling hollow ware or flatware item you have to use a probe with the backing disc, and compare a raw volume resistivity measurement against a sample library you have set up in advance. Mine has paid for itself many times over helping me to avoid "unfortunate mistakes".

That sounds very complicated, I can't buy a sigma though, I would rather keep buying more silver / silver plate. Since I don't buy silver and gold directly from people right now, and I can't test any metal before I buy (they are all from online boxes from Goodwill) it wouldn't make financial sense. I'm glad it works for you though! They're huge investments.

It's a great pattern. Holloware is pretty rare, and I just found the water pitcher and a pair of candle holders this week.

@@gmgssilverplate very nice! I have 1 triple candelabra

Thanks! That was a while ago... Iirc they refunded me to full, and then I was still able to keep the other 3 pieces because they didn't make me send it back, and I made a decent profit, especially on the waste bowl, but it did suck.

@@gmgssilverplate I have that set

Do you like to collect other silver or silver plate or does that pattern have sentimental value to you and you mostly stay to it?

@@gmgssilverplate Eternally yours is my mother's pattern that she got for her wedding. I pick up a piece of it here and there when I can find it affordable for me. It's just sentimental.

Ice cubes? Hahaha, now that a fancy way to pick up ice cubes.

@@gmgssilverplate exactly exclamation point it was a time of style and flair. They actually work pretty well 😉

@@richcincotta6702 I am going to look at it again a bit closely, but apparently olive tongs are also a thing to look for. Those seem to be 3 prongs though.

@@richcincotta6702 And I suppose these came from a time where actually having ice at hand was a sign of wealth. I heard that people used to ship giant blocks of ice from the North. It was a huge trade.

@@gmgssilverplate actually these songs are not that old. I want to stay there from the 1950s or 1960s.

Thank you for helping me identify the patterns!

Thank for watching! I actually sold it last year I think for 350 iirc. I priced it competitively with other examples and it still sat a long time.

Certainly plausible, I thought given the control the government had on the economy they could just stamp the price of the pieces, at least that's what I saw from a bit of research.

Thanks Rich, I will try to get a partial refund from them. The only way to get a full refund is to send the lot back, which I won't do. I guess I'm just getting rather frustrated, and I do not want this to seem like this is a slight against their employees. Every single person who has a job makes mistakes. It's not really that as much as that the mistakes like these that I get angry about are very very blatant. When things like this occur, there is a system wide failure, imo, which if not corrected will continue to cost Goodwill much "Good Will." In this instance, even the most minimal of packaging voidfill would have given the pieces a much greater chance of survival. It could have been newspaper, plastic wrap, foam, peanuts, shredded boxes, anything. They need to come up with something, whether it is a supervisor or a team that does a final check on packages before they get sent out or more team leaders that works more closely with employees for on the job training, I don't know, it just needs to be something. And I do not want it to seem like I am attacking the "capabilities" of individual employees who work there. I am not. I worked 6 months with a non-profit which hired many people who were differently abled. I made friends with many of them while I was there. They were incredible people that had a lot of pride in their work, even if it was simply to remove staples from packs of papers and unfold them, if they were folded, before they were to be copied so they could be archived. They did a great job, but there were three other employees, myself included on some days, who kept an eye on things and caught mistakes when they were made, but they needed constant watching over and consistent encouragement. This is a management wide and cultural problem at this point.

I like to keep the knobs and handles.