I think I’m going to try a new (old) style of blogging. Back when I started this in 2012, I just posted whatever it was I found that day or week. I was an amateur trash picker back then, and I was just having a fun time posting my finds. I didn’t know much about anything, my pictures weren’t great and neither was my writing, but no one was reading my blog so what did it matter? Anyways, as I got better and better at trash picking (and it became an actual job), I found more and more stuff, and documenting it in the same way became impossible. I burnt myself out repeatedly trying to keep up. So I think I’m going to focus more on sharing the best stuff in a timely manner. I’m hoping to get back to up 2-3 blog posts a week, but we’ll see what happens.
For now I’ll share the highlights from my exceptional haul a few weeks ago. I stopped at a lightly intriguing trash pile, and was greeted with a bunch of interesting metal junk when I opened the bin. I dug all the way to the bottom, finding all sorts of fun treasures along the way.
I saved 18 of these skewers (6 each, of three slightly different styles). They looked to be hallmarked, but it was hard to read them in the dark. I was able to take a closer look when I got home, and found that they were .800 (80%) Egyptian silver.
At current silver prices, the scrap value of 740 grams of 80% silver is just shy of 900$!
But I wasn’t done yet. I also found this piece of a hookah/water pipe. I thought it looked nicer than your average silver plate, but I left it in the car overnight with some other miscellaneous junk. When I looked the next day, I found a .900 Egyptian silver hallmark on a couple of the components.
I acid tested the other parts, and it seems to be solid silver. I don’t think it’s weighted either. If so, at 770 grams, this hunk of silver is worth a bit over 1000$ for the weight.
Oh, and I also saved these cute little dishes. Egyptian silver again, 90% fineness. At 110 grams, that brings the total silver value to a little over 2000$.
This was one of my best silver hauls in years. Rarely are people this clueless about their precious metals. I found some other fun stuff that I’ll save for a part two, but unfortunately this is looking like a “one-hit wonder” spot for now. However, I’ve been pretty lucky lately. Someone else decided to toss some exceptional stuff, and I hope to share those finds soon enough.
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