Hasn't been too good here. I have gotten a bit discouraged by the poor deals.

I did manage to get a box of (8) 60W incandescent spot lights for $1. Same place that was selling a whole bunch of silver a few weeks back. As we were talking over the price she pulled everything off the table and got cold feet about selling. A moving sale. She had a bag of junk silver from father in law.... and told me she turned down an offer of $500. I added up what she had and told her that wasn't a bad offer.

She also had a couple bags of silver bars .999. These were older so I did not suspect fakes. She could not decide what to do and ended up holding onto them. She did have another bag of foreign coins which I knew almost nothing about. Some looked like silver... and I bought that for $40. Turns out it is probably not worth even $20. After I got home I gave myself an education on foreign coins. Those cheap bastards were using crap metals in most countries long before the US. Sometimes you lose.... when you don't know what you are doing.


I got (free) what appears to be a lightweight coin silver spoon. The only markings on it are: G.F.F. & CO
It is very much like (look, feel, sound) of some coin silver spoons I acquired a few years ago. Coin silver is 90%.

Went to an auction today. Prices were all too high. Too many high rollers showed up and bid top dollar for everything. Sterling silver items went for more than $20 + 10% commission. This put the sale price in the range of $25 per ounce of silver on the cheaper deals. Some went in the $30 range. It was amazing to see people bid hundreds of $$ for tattered old rugs. I left much early as too much time was already wasted here.

This little bit was after visiting dozens of sales over the last few weeks. That is why I have to say it has been discouraging. Hitting it nice is a numbers game. Most of these sales are junk. Gotta have a good junk screen as you vacuum up value.