I was searching Craigs list today and came across an estate sale that was about 5 min away. I got there and all of the sudden cops started showing up from everywhere, not at the house, but the whole block. A turn out there was a drug bust and someone escaped and was thought to be hiding on that block. I never got to see what happened.
I walked through the house of the estate sale and found a nice hack saw for a dollar. Then as I was walking out they must have just brought out a box full of silverware. I looked through it and pulled out 16 sterling spoons and one marked "Standard". I asked if I could just buy these spoons instead of all of them and she said yes how about 10 dollars. So for 11 dollars I got a hacksaw and 17 sterling spoons.
The story gets a little better. I took them home and weighed them. It came out to 10.8 ounces. So the pure silver weight was 9.99 ounces. Well I just thought I would share the excitement for the day. Go to garage sales sometimes you get lucky.
Does anybody if standard means the same as Sterling?
i responded to a post on silver and posted a chart to determine plating thickness on spoons per toz per. Standard is a plating description like quadruple plate, or federal plate. Do a search and You should get the idea. If I remeber right stanard plate is 1 Toz per 144 teaspoons.
The silver [is] mine, and the gold [is] mine, saith the LORD of hosts. Hag 2:8 [/b] He created it. He controls it. He gave it to us for His use. Why did we turn from sound scriptural currency that PROTECTS us?
All the silverware was from different sets. All the knives and forks were plated, but 12 of the 16 were from the same set. I think forks would be about the same weight, not too sure about knives.
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Posted - 07/18/2008 : 16:31:21
