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>>57379311
>this is Pewter Metals General.

Damn straight

>>56997398
>Don't forget to look after pewter too.

Based and Tin-pilled

>>56253585
I haven't slurped any scrap in a week or so, haven't really been looking either though as I've been focusing more on locating and learning more about various arcane antiques for my collections and networking with other antique collectors to trade with. The most exciting discovery lately occurred several days ago when I was looking at old pictures of a circa 1916-1920 scrapbook (like a photo and memento album) I have had since I was a kid and which has been in storage for years, and realized that it has a Major League baseball game ticket from 1917 from a game that the famous baseball star Ty Cobb was in. They're very rare so research is difficult and I found no exact matches, but my sense is that it could be worth around $1000 or more, and certainly no less than $400. I never paid attention to the many different tickets in the scrapbook before as I was interested in other things. I'll carefully remove it and send it in for grading and slabbing, and there may be other valuable sports game tickets in the book too. Quite amusing how I own so much cool stuff that I can find treasure by just digging through my own collections again kek.

>>56253585
>18th c. tin plate
A 2 kilo platter/charger sounds awesome, please post pics of that fren. Antique pewter (poor man's silver) usually isn't worth a fortune but it will certainly be worth more than the ~$50 of tin content, plus it looks extremely cool and old-school so is nice to own and admire. It looks like you did pretty well at the flea market congrats man, and if the book on old French postage stamps turns out to be desirable then you'll do better than break-even. I bought a big dictionary-sized book on US trademarks printed in 1979 a while ago for $1, very obscure with no sales data anywhere so I had it listed for a truly semitic amount and after a few months someone offered $150 for it. Your stamp book may be like that, list it with a ridiculous price + OBO option and eventually the right autist will find it.

>>54916740
>anyone here stack tin? pure tin is hard to find

There are a few pewterchads here, most people have no concept of the value of pewter (92 to 97% tin) so it is often found very cheap at thrift shops or yard sales. The only pure tin I buy is in the form of antique long narrow ingots that I sometimes come across which are collectible in their own right.

>>54727382
>I'm curious more about your story like how often do you go hunting, do you have a number of different Goodwills and thrift stores you frequent on a circuit?
Locally there are only 2 thrift stores I frequent, I hit 1 once a week when they've restocked the shelves, the old ladies running it must have bad eyesight because I spy and buy gold and silver in their $1 jewelry grab bags pretty often, and the local Goodwill I visit twice a week. Most Goodwills screen out the good sterling silverware and karat gold jewelry and valuable antiques and gadgets to sell online but mine is a bargain hunters' paradise, rings, bracelets and necklaces are all a fixed $4 each and pairs of earrings just $1. Gold gets put in the case often enough to be worth watching for and there is almost always Sterling jewelry to be had, but little lightweight necklace chains or rings don't amount to much and I usually only buy the pieces significantly under spot. Keep in mind that cheap PMs are only a fraction of the value I extract from thrift stores, I flip the valuable books, albums, antiques and appliances I find which makes the time investment worthwhile, if you were just looking for PMs it probably wouldn't be an efficient use of time.

All that said, the best recommendation I can give is to monitor www.estatesales.net for local IRL tag sales in the houses of dead boomers, get there before opening on the first day and beeline to the jewelry or silverware tables and start scooping up the good deals, then mine out the good antiques, collectibles and rare books to flip.

>I love the pewter goblets, I'd just drink out of them. Is it sterling silver or what? I thought you mentioned they were only like $20 which seemed so cheap for them unless it was a low amount of silver.

The goblets were $1 each and just Tin, Antimony and Copper as anon said. Tin is worth $27/kg and I believe it will break $100/kg this decade so I hoard all the cheap pieces I come across, pic related.

>>54647428
I know that some people are hip to pewter and buy it to melt into bars and sell online but it's still pretty damn niche.
>I probably have a few thousand ounces of pewter
It's a good feel bro. How do you differentiate between leaded and lead-free food grade pewter? Do you use something like lead test-strips or just separate decorative vs food/drink pewter?
>>54647886
>I have a bunch of random baking molds that I like to pour mine in
Nice, I have a few graphite molds but need a better way to clean the dross/oxide from molten batches, so you use anything like wax or sawdust?

>>53929238
>isnt pewter dirt cheap to begin with? they must have payed you to take it off their hands

Pewter is mostly tin, and the tin price over the past year has ranged between $17.60 to $50/kg, I'm HODLing until we break $100/kg. Dirt cheap compared to PMs but for a base metal it's pretty valuable and 50X as rare as copper so I like stacking it. Copper is a fun meme but I actually take tin seriously. I wish I got paid to haul it away, but most people have no concept of its scarcity or value so it's easy to find priced at a fraction of melt value.

>>53908078
>What do (you) stack or plan to besides gold and silver?
I and a few other anons stack Pewter because it can be found cheap and is scarce enough to be worth the space in my workshop. Tin price is $28/kg right now and is produced at 12x the rate of Silver and just 1/50th the rate of Copper. It is indispensable in tech and industry, mines are getting depleted and often an ecological clusterfuck, and it's the focus of resource nationalism which will likely squeeze supply/availability and help push prices considerably higher over the next decade. I'd stack platinum too if I knew how to find it cheap.

>>53892077
>Found the brooch. Been looking around for the vase. Hard to do without measurements.

I appreciate your concern but rest assured that I'm hip to the flipping game. The Mary Engelbreit brooch isn't worth much (on eBay anyway), one sold for $11 + shipping which doesn't excite me. Those Dutch pewter pitchers/ewers are common, made in that style by various different firms in many different sizes. The aesthetic may be MCM but they're not that old. I have a good number of them in the pewter hoard and they almost always have problems like dents or unsightly scratches/scuffing.

>>53864482
Looking good anon, are you sticking with Asahi for uniformity or will you be introducing some variety to the stack?
>>53864610
>What should your gold:silver:copper ratio be?
I dunno man but my Silver:Tin ratio is about 1:1 which is comfy, I definitely need some more copper tho.