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>>56328999

How does one anon get the two most blessed trips?
>All i got to work with is a piece of railroad tie plate, but i make do.

Chopped-down railroad track anvils with their hard steel top surface are really quite nice and ought to be relatively cheap and easy to find, i have a few of those too and prefer them for most basic jobs requiring an anvil. I got both of the antique anvils cheap at estate/farm sales, got the small 44lb one for $20 last year and I slurped the higher quality 136lb bigboi for $25 when I was 18. Your digits portend well so keep your eyes peeled for promising estate sales and sooner or later you'll surely find what you need.

>>53721804
>Is that a world that needs gold?

No, but if they want clean water then silver pitchers and goblets will be quite a desirable luxury.

>>52495987
Yes I am proud, good job frogbro. My latest haul of any note was this past saturday, $3.59 total for 6.14 ozt asw, then a few days ago I got a sterling cuff bracelet weighing 14g for $4.24, half of melt and a nice designer piece but not really exciting. Heavy early silver forks are hard to find in decent shape, if they're not monogrammed or custom engraved they may be worth a bit over melt. I bet Napoleon I era and earlier silver is desirable, it would be pretty badass to have and use a table setting made back when he was steamrolling plebs across Europe. Do you know more details about how old the forks are and who made them?

I'm glad that what might have been a costly learning experience turned into an ideal situation and 10oz of free silver, now you have more hands-on experience with recognizing different plated items and a valuable lesson on verifying the presence of hallmarks in an auction listing and not buying things based only on a seller's claims, sellers say plated junk is good sterling or that good sterling is plated crap (my preferred type of listing of course) every day. You're already doing well but I promise you it gets much easier as your knowledge, experience and instincts get stronger and you discover highly efficient strategies. Low-IQ chuds like to claim that it's impossible to find cheapies regularly and with that attitude they never will, it certainly takes more effort and expertise than coomsooming silver from dealers so noobs who don't know what they're doing will find it frustrating or inefficient, but it absolutely can be done so keep it up fren. Also that ring looks like an official WW2 era US Army piece and was worn a lot, I assume it's genuine based on the appearance and think it's worth $40-50 but I don't know much about military insignia rings, the few I've gotten I've given to an old boomer collector who likewise gives me things I collect when he finds them.

Found a couple nice scrappies today, the Preisner weighted sterling dish was $2 and yielded 43 grams, and the Wallace Sterling goblet was only $1.59 with tax at a Habitat for Humanity ReStore and weighs 163 grams. 206.4 grams total containing 6.13 troy ounces of pure worth $134 melt for $3.59, or about 59 cents an ounce.

I did use $16 in gas and spent 4 hours looking around, but also got $400 worth of good antiques for flipping for another $23. Keep your eyes open and happy hunting anons, the cheapies are out there.