Can you stack or invest in Silver Flatware and Tableware - Junk or Treasure?

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Can you stack or invest in Silver Flatware and Tableware - Junk or Treasure?
Pieces of history in the form of hallmarked sterling silver flatware or tableware are amazing pieces of history as well as precious metals. More often than not they are looked at as junk pieces with no collectability or desirability. In this video I showcase two very cool silver ladles from 1838 and talk about their practicality as an investment or just as a way to accumulate silver at a very cheap price.

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[GunnarsGames]

I buy sterling at antique stores and estate sales all the time. Always way under spot price. I think it is more fun to have a piece of wealth with a purpose than just coins, bars, and other bullion. It is nice to have variety and eating with sterling flatware and hollowware is fun. The “ping” of an old fork or spoon against a ceramic plate or bowl just resonates and sounds magnificent.

[DREWID]

I have been switching over to Sterling, ditching the stainless.
Looks better, sounds better, and provides external and internal microbial shield.
The inherent value is an added bonus.
Buying at or below spot, and patiently filling set.

[Moscow_Molly]

To the left of William Eaton’s Mark, is the journeyman’s mark. (The actual maker) William Eaton is the owner of the shop, (the sponsors mark)

[adelfomarrero]

Thank you for your video, is two years old.right now.but been collecting, sterling siver flatware for many years l personally think is worth collecting because it is the real money, silver is always money. It will continue going up in price, and the dollar continue going down.

[CatsMeowPaw]

I like visiting my local antique shops that have old prices and picking up sterling for well below melt. A month ago I bought a teapot for $195 that has at least $350 of silver in it. Bargain.

The problem is dealers are catching on to this and updating prices. It's virtually impossible to find silver below or at melt on eBay now.

[urbanrelichunter]

Love finding silver cheap... I just picked up an American "coin" silver spoon made in Virginia sometime between 1761 and 1787. It only cost me $0.25

[paxvobiscum]

I always PREFERRED Sterling Silver Flatware and such...
Sterling Silver is more valuable in the USA than Old Coin Silver...
Sterling Silver holds 92.5% Silver and 7.5% Copper...
Old Coin Silver was made from 90%, 80% and even 40% Silver, much less than Silver Content than Sterling Silver Flatware...
It adds Variety to someone's collection if you stack Silver.. and gives you something to have a functional use in day-to-day uses... Also, Silver Flatware can be transported without anyone realizing what it truly is, so that you can transport it easier too...

[meteoman]

The R is actually an 8 and probably is a code for the actual maker of the spoon as Eaton would have had many workers in his shop. When silver prices get high, many hollow ware pieces are sold at melt, which turns out to be cheaper than when they earlier were sold as antiques.

[BlueSauce]

I invest in Antique Chinese Export Silver, Indian Colonial Silver, English Silver and one of my favorites Mexican Silver (TANE).

[brentackerman]

I'm a hobbyist refiner, I use sterling silver pieces to inquart karat gold down to 6k. Wont bore with the details but end up with 999 fine gold and 999 fine silver.

[CptLongbeard]

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[joeruanuku]

I have been stacking for my grandchildren so when I am gone they will get it all. I am not fussy if it's silver I stack it. From bullion bars and coins to jewelry and even cutlery and flatware. I have silver from all over the world dating back to the 1700, s and would never sell for scrap melting unless it was far beyond repair. I have a collection of pure 999 chopsticks from asia and I believe the reason they were made of silver was to detect poison in food as the silver would tarnish instantly. Maybe this is another reason why European Royalty and aristocrats would use it too. ?? Thanks from New Zealand.

[KYHStacking]

Great video! I collect antique silver and those are actually fiddle pattern sauce/cream ladles 👍

[stefanvoicu]

I have, I use, I keep buying. Silver is silver anyway. From my coffee spoon, wine goblet, fruit dish or ashtray, silver can be used everyday. Even on the bottom of water jar I am keeping some silver to be ionized the drinking water.
I like sterling silver, but I love continental silver: .800, .830, .850. Pieces of history very sophisticated, very well made, easy to find at or below the spot price.
If there are stackers of junk silver coins 40%, 50% and it is always a big hunt of them, why to not stack and use in the same time silver between .800 and .925? Doesn't matter when I will want to sell, in the same day somebody will be more than happy to buy them for a fair 2%-5% over spot price.

[gosnellktn]

it's a lot easier to squeeze silver in the hand than to shake it from the bush. i would take that ladle over a share of SLV any day.

[NOSEMATICS]

I need a big silver goblet, one big enough that my nose does not hit the rim when I drink. 🤩🤩🤩👃🏻🍻

[jameshutchins]

Im a huge stacker of sterling i found a designer's sighed piece it was a big bowl with fish legs worth 4k free and many othees for free some 20 cents a ounce over 100 ounce

[TheMovieCreator]

Silver flatware was considered a standard part of an established household in Norway well into the 1970s and 80s.

Over here, a big silver-flatware industry developed through the silversmiths in most of the cities in the early 1900s. The competition led to a wide range of available series, often based on very diverse and intricate patterns. This trend peaked around the 50s and 60s, whereafter the popularity of silverware has steadily declined. Still, most jewelers to this day still offers a limited selection of silverware from the most popular series new, and there is a strong second-hand market not only limited to antique shops. Typically, at the moment, the second-hand market has rates that are around twice the metal spot price for items with established patterns. This is again typically half the new-price charged by jewelers.

As of the future... The popularity for silverware here has quickly gone down the last few decades, but at the same time the silver spot price has become very high. This is first of all due to the hikes lately, but a weakening local currency does not help. At the moment, getting a full set new from scratch is prohibitively expensive, but still... Due to the popularity of silver in the 1920s to the 60s, there's also a lot of it around and a lot of that is being passed along through inheritance. Most of the new-sales from jewelers are typically just to fill in for missing parts of inherited sets, and as a result the selection of parts available new is getting more and more limited. However, with people being aware of the concept and the well established second-hand market, you very rarely see anything at spot and practically never below.

[lukethereseller]

Very interesting timing for this video as I was just about to look at a deal of spot price flatware/tableware on TSF. Thought it might be an interesting part of my stack.

[elsao]

Love those spoons...I have yet to find silver in the wild.