I remember when "sandwich quarters" came out. My dad said that's what they called them and he also explained the reason for the change. He gave each of us 4 kids one on the day they came out. He also gave us a Kennedy half dollar the day they went into circulation. He called silver plated stuff "strilling silver", not quite the real thing. On a side note, he had bought a Meet The Beatles album the day that they were to be on the Ed Sullivan Show. He was such an awesome dad. We refer things like strilling silver as Harryisms. We, his children, and our kids all miss Grampa Harry so much.

@livefree6878

5 жыл бұрын

That’s great! Sandwich quarters makes total sense. I really appreciate your comment. These old coins represent a lot of memories for me as well. Sometimes I think back to the date on a coin first then I can recall what was happening in those years.

@johnmusser8925

Жыл бұрын

When kennedy half's came out you could only get two from the bank (hoarding)..my grand father drove around philly and went to every bank..I still have them

Sterling dinner knives have a steel blade and shank running through the sterling handle... Which will defeat the magnet test... and the Sterling Mark is 'hidden' on the side of the handle horizontal and or bolster at the base of the blade, likely worn... and is just a foil such as weighted candle sticks. Plating has been around since 1859 i.e. Community and or Oneida the bulk. It is generally plated 'brass' which has scrap value. Sometimes copper too nickel. Too 90% and Coin Silver... If an item is marked 'nickel silver' it's nickel. Foreign Picture Marks are mysterious lingo which you'll need do research. Thrift stores have gone online sales of 'smalls' as have estate sales... Sometimes you get lucky but you'll need work at it and go bust most times... Copper and pewter has recycling value majority is worth more as scrap than an antique. Watch for 'manufacture marks' can make all the difference and sometime quite lucrative but rare. Old pewter is lead and tin, finding a knowledgeable scrapyard is a challenge. Coin is simple by the date... 1964 and older US, Canada 1966 and older up to 1968 but that is a mishmash maybe and maybe not 80% silver... Kennedy US is 40% up to.. 1970. Don't forget platinum, though extremely rare and varies in purity... generally marked PL. too PLAT. Since about 1982 gold has been marked P as for Pure i.e. dead on karat such as 14KP... 'P' does not stand for plate. If there is an 'E' it stands for electroplate. Have fun out there... but a word to the wise. It's not what it used to be, I no longer hit the bricks... Just the occasional luck out. Most the good stuff has gone to 'melt' long ago... Made it a living quite lucrative now sling pizza... Filling bellies is my new gold... don't trip.🥚Take care

How do you find real silver at the thrift store...right place, right time. That's it. Nothing more. Knowledge required.

I once saw an idiot toss aside a nice bowl because it wasn't marked 925. Ha Ha!. It was obviouly Sterling by look and feel, No, not marked 925, but, Hallmarked....British Sterling.

There is an important mistake some commenters are making concerning the William Rogers "IS" mark. The "IS" does NOT stand for sterling. Unfortunately, the mark is deceptive (and likely was intentionally done so) to reflect that the manufacturer of the flatware was part of the International Silver Company. The international Silver Company was formed in 1898 by various independent New England silversmiths that joined themselves together to form a company that became the world's largest manufacturer of silverware. Again, there is little of any silver in an International Silver Company utensil. Most pieces are silverplate, or are nickel silver at best.

@jmagar641

5 жыл бұрын

. You

@patsymathews2953

5 жыл бұрын

AaronGarton666 i

What is "The Unfortunate Secret"?

Also, the amount of silver is not the dominating factor in which tone you year on ping test, it is the coin radius. To detect silver with the ping test, first listen for resonance (anything but a dull thud). If there is no resonance, it is certainly not even junk silver. Then listen for tone composition. If the are multiple pitches plainly heard, it is at best junk silver. If you have resonance and a pure tone, and the pitch matches the pitch of reference silver bullion, you can gauge purity by sounding attenuation. Decreased duration of resonance indicates higher fineness.

If you notice there are thrift stores opening up on every corner, no such thing as non-profit thrift store the owners live in million dollar houses

I found a silver goblet the first time I went to a thrift store to look. I had no idea what it was when I bought it (for $1.00). I thought it was copper because of the yellow color on the outside. When I cleaned it I suddenly realized the yellow was gold plating over sterling silver. It was so tarnished it didn't look remarkable at all. I boiled it in vinegar and it cleaned up very well.

Anyone in the states who doesn't know 1964 and earlier dollars, half dollars, quarters, and dimes were 90 percent silver.........well they must have been raised in a cave.

@richardallanhopkins2690

Жыл бұрын

Dude, there are literally millions of people that don't know New Mexico is a state 😂

@Bamperz

9 ай бұрын

Idk how old you are but no

@AfrewSpines

8 ай бұрын

ok boomer 👌

@patrickmanasco5905

Ай бұрын

I guess half the people I meet live in caves

@patrickmanasco5905

Ай бұрын

I think only seems true if you were born before the buzz about the switch ended which wasn’t really until the 70s

Also silver has a taste to it. Obviously if it’s plate this won’t help you. Also bite it a little and you can feel the softness of silver.

Or you could just look at the date on the coins. Unless they’re counterfeit, they’ll be 90% silver if they were minted before 1965. If you have a lot of change, the edge test is good. But if you have half dollars the 40% silver Kennedy’s minted 1965-70 can sometimes look like clad on the edge. Checking the date on coins is the most reliable test. Even some counterfeit coins could have a silver content.

I use sound as a start but I turn off music to do it….. There are no marks on U.S. coins but you can see and hear a difference… when the music is off.

Bought 8 sterling silver, marked on the back, spoons at a consignment store yesterday for $80. Wasn’t even looking for silver... it just caught my eye.

My theft store, oops, auto correct, "thrift" store labels items found at the dollar store for $2 or more if that tells you anything of my chances of finding any kind of deal.

@davem5308

5 жыл бұрын

Dan, that is true! My girlfriend noticed that, and pointed it out to me, in certain places which we browse. Pathetic. No greed among the humans. No brain dead zombies either. "A sucker born every minute" ?

@voluntaryismistheanswer

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like when I moved to the south lol, I had never seen anyone sell dry nail polish at a yard sale before.

@buentaste

5 жыл бұрын

Daniel Wilson lol😝

@oltedders

5 жыл бұрын

We have better luck at the resale shops. Especially if they are supporting a women's shelter, charity or pet spay and nueter. They are more interested in moving merchandise than wringing the last dollar out of an item. Location also makes a difference in pricing.

@marthas.4456

5 жыл бұрын

It's true here also in UK. Often things in the charity shops are so overpriced it's laughable. But those who run these shops often overlook good stuff, and many times they haven't got a clue what they are selling. I found so many treasures, also in those shops which have a tendency overprice stuff. Just an example : One of these shops I'm frequenting have contemporary rubbish for a price often higher than the items did cost when they were new. I also found there a rare antique razor box for a £1 in perfect condition, antique silver brooch for £1 etc. Of course it doesn't happen often but you have to look around properly to find the little gems.

I “happened” upon a silver quarter... twice. I did the drop tests ... major difference

Wow! Great work for checking genuine silver. This helps a lot for me. Thanks for this channel.

@livefree6878

4 жыл бұрын

👍👍

I could listen to you talk forever you speak so clearly that its satisfying

Great job, very interesting! Thanks,

Magnet test and ice cube test work on both sterling silver and on silver-plated copper. I can only recommend the ping test for comparison to bullion. The magnets and ice cubes do not say much.

I keep my eye out for 22karat gold dip bowls. I usually get them for 3-5 bucks. I throw them in acid to break gold off.

I have a few Peterson pipes and they have silver bands on the stems with those markings

There are books you can buy and the books have all the markings in it. You can silver and gold tested by jewellers with a small tester. It will test for silver and gold to identify the quality and the purity. I have a ring that tests for silver made in the 17th century.

@gregmikulewicz7423

5 жыл бұрын

M.k

Lots of thrift stores are now clued up!!!

One of my favourite pastime is to find interesting things in a thriftstore (here in UK they called charity shops) or at the flea markets, carboot sales. Sometimes I'm really lucky. Not long time ago I found a nice sterling silver bowl in a charity shop complete with English silver marks. Weights around 250g. Paid a fiver for it. The manager of the shop thought it's only silverplate despite the obvious marks.

@livefree6878

5 жыл бұрын

That’s a great story! I can imagine the excitement when you saw the English marks.

do you have more videos like this, I run in to metal pots and pans a lot but its hard for me to tell what they are, does tin have markings? Ill search your channel, great video,

Good video. If you handled enough silver you can tell by the look and weight 98% of the time.

Very interesting. Thank you!

Awesome information thank you

Great video information 👍

Anything marked "Rogers" with any other letters, ie Wm, WmF J, etc....is going to be plated. No solid sterling was ever sold under any Rogers trade name. Some brands were ONLY sterling, such as Lunt, Alvin, Kirk, and International sterling. Marks for European silver are often different from English. Austria and Germany use 800, 825, 830, and 850. Sterling holloware is usually light in weight, often being easily bendable in the hand. Silver also is an incredible heat conductor and feels warm in the hand. Also, solid silver tarnishes differently than plate. Solid silver tarnish will often come off easily when rubbed with one's thumb or finger....tarnish on plate is much harder to remove.

The coin drop is what I kinda do. I'll separate all my dimes and quarters. Then I pick up all of the dimes, I let them slide out of my hand and I listen for a different sound. Quarters I do the same thing with.

The sound tests would be better without the back ground music.

@jmagar641

5 жыл бұрын

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@ssimon64

5 жыл бұрын

Right? The music with ringing tones happening right when you're trying to listen for the ringing tone of the silver coin.

@LynnVids1

5 жыл бұрын

"The sound tests would be better without the back ground music." Agreed! It seems that people are allergic to quiet these days. Maybe to drown out their thoughts, I dunno. Watching TV is especially tough with the constant background noise. Would be SO much nicer if there was NO music when trying to listen to speech.

@betheichstedt3826

5 жыл бұрын

D Cummings Q

@slowlane5032

3 жыл бұрын

Plus he won't shut up so the audience can HEAR the tap test on the coins!

Lentz's Law. If you understand this basic physics principle, you can readily distinguish ferrous from non-ferrous metals using the same magnet. Aluminum even reacts heavily to a magnet --- so long as either the magnet or the sample is in motion relative to the other.

Thank you for the excellent demonstration! We saw that other metals than iron have magnetism even if it is much lower. Yes silver has a different sound than iron, but to compare both we would need pieces of similar size and thickness because these factors influence the sound. We all have experienced that. A tin can is steel but it doesn't have the same sound as a steel bar.

I like the easy way you shared. I learned much from you! Thanks.

@livefree6878

6 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video, I’d love to know when you find some real silver. Keep treasure hunting.

British mark with Sheffield doesn’t indicate where it’s made, but indicates where it was assayed, i.e. which Assey Office it was marked as sterling’s no silver.

WM Rogers is almost always plated

Thanks Joe

Silver moves due to Eddy currents! I just learned a new thing! 1964 or earlier is partially silver. Silver rings beautifully!

@odin1313

3 жыл бұрын

silver has the highest heat conductiity of all elements. It heats up and cools down quicker than anything. ( see Ice Cube test ) It also has the highest electrical conductivity of all elements. A simple conductivity tester would be the best test.

I have found silver at the thrift store. It just depends who is processing stuff that day. Some of them know their metals and others don't.

🔵 From 1:08 to 1:32 makes NO SENSE AT ALL!!!!! are you TRYING to CONFOUND PEOPLE???..... Are you trying to say that a magnet WILL or will-NOT affect silver??? The areas of the video indicated above indicate that a magnet WILL affect silver,.. when the truth of the matter is it definitely WILL-NOT!!! You need to pull this video down and redo it so you don't leave people just scratching their heads!

@chemistryofquestionablequa6252

5 жыл бұрын

They will move silver if you shake it above it, but won't stick to it.

@dloveartsdotcom

5 жыл бұрын

Diamagnitism :)

@greenthizzle4

5 жыл бұрын

Look into eddy currents and lenz law

@routannethegamer2390

5 жыл бұрын

Silver will not stick to a magnet, but it is affected by magnets. For example if you made a slide out of magnets and dropped a silver coin down it, the silver coin would slide down it slower, almost as if the slide was coated with syrup.

Silver is a very white metal and it rusts black, best indicator and you can see it on the knives

@spencerwilton5831

5 жыл бұрын

Angel Gonzalez silver does not rust! It tarnishes. But solid silver and plate both tarnish so your point is irrelevant.

A bit off topic. I bought a platinum ring at a Pawnshop. Thinking I could use it to help to enlarge my rings. And found they wouldn’t do that. What made me think of this is the comment on the video of collecting Pewter. How can you get value out of finding it? I didn’t think as a metal it really had any? 🤔💭🤷🏻‍♀️ Please someone that know will you share with me about it’s value and how if I found some I could sell it? Thank you. 😊👍🏼😁

You forgot to mention the lower numbers ..I found an eggplate that was marked .900..I paid like $1.50 for it..took to scrapyard..got $298 for it when it was $15 an ounce..I also have tea set marked .835 from Germany..and all the other foreign marks other than U.k.

My wife worked a register for years, she got so good at hearing the sound of silver tink in the drawer.

Thanks for the information😊

@livefree6878

5 жыл бұрын

👍

Just subscribed! Best of luck! 😎🤘

good video! thanks!

Do u recommend the best silverware mark book?

My mom has a lot of old silver and i have noticed that silver tends to get darker with time so if you find a butterknife for example is dark, chances are you have real/plated silver

@ruthmeow4262

5 жыл бұрын

No, nickle silver does the same, and there is no silver in it.

@foureyedchick

5 жыл бұрын

Valid point: Silver oxidizes when it is exposed to the air (combines with oxygen).

Yeah, need to know markings but if you dealt with silver long enough you simply can feel it, spoons are easy, just bend them, silver bends easily, silver-plated are hard and springy, I find lots of silver at thrift stores, I think pounds of it, coins are more difficult but you can just feel it, pure silver on silver-plated objects look bright and white, silver things are tinted, yellow usually

I like hickory smokes hillshire farms smokies with scrambled eggs and butter toast

@p12psicop

5 жыл бұрын

That's not how windmills work.

@heyokaempath5802

5 жыл бұрын

Lmao! Me too!

@corthew

5 жыл бұрын

But its made of cheese...CHEESE...The bloody thing is made of CHEESE!!! How can we land on the moon if its made of cheese??? Obviously they faked it!

@rotflmfaoemoji9950

5 жыл бұрын

@@corthewlol

@darkkiss7247

5 жыл бұрын

Bears are furry.

In England where I live silver is illegal to sell if it is NOT hallmarked. English silver MUST be hallmarked to be sold.

@Dibi918

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but I think this video is made for U.S. Americans because at the end he says: You have to know your signs... And then the problems starts: There are 100rd thousands of different national/epoch/regional markings(=signs?!?) So how you know your Silver is real? As a average person you can't. I like the shine, the weight and the price of this piece of metal. And there are a lot of different metals

@robertagardner5461

5 жыл бұрын

@@Dibi918 That's where the book comes in handy. This book has all the hallmarks for silver and gold since these metals began to be hallmarked.

@1956model1

5 жыл бұрын

Brits have more scruples than us Americans. :-/

@caulkins69

5 жыл бұрын

No, they just have more rules you have to follow.

@steammachine3061

5 жыл бұрын

Silver can be sold without a hallmark in the uk but it can't be advertised as silver (or at the very least cant be advertised to be sterling sliver). And is often just advertised as white metal Instead. A hallmark is an assay mark that just shows its been tested and garunteed above a certain purity. Theres plenty of white metal on the market in the uk with varying percentages of silver in its composition. Annoyingly a hallmark isnt always a sign of silver either as electro plated nickel silver often has marks very similar looking to a sterling hallmark. So you realy do have to scrutinize the stamp to make sure the mark for silver is amoung it. I used to collect silver back in the day and had the testing kits. Not every piece of silver I bought that tested positive for silver contained a hallmark. In fact very few pieces of silver I bought did as it was cheaper to take an educated punt on non hallmarked than it was to pay premium for the hallmarked stuff.

Those are some pretty nifty information.

where do you sell pewter and / or what do look up for selling PewterThank,s Rick

Simple look for any Hallmarks, EPS etc and know the silver coins years issues and the standard eg sterling, 50% silver, etc. Not hard. Watch out for titles as eg German silver, etc.

I got an 1850s silver fork from a thrift store. It was folded into a little standing piece of art. Cost me $0.75. Thanks for the info video!

@fiddlesticksbessette398

5 жыл бұрын

WORTH ABOUT $15.00..

This video was kinda pointless lol about half of it

Aluminum is diamagnetic also just like your silver and copper quarter

You must smell on the items. Silver has a unique smell that is different from silver plated or other Metall. Smell, listen and feel... If you have handled enough items you know what your dealing with.

@mysteryguy793

4 жыл бұрын

there is also acid test

I DONT even know why this is on my recommended.

@itsjustrenee1320

5 жыл бұрын

It might have something to do with being unfortunate.

@daviddianna

4 жыл бұрын

and you took the time to comment on that?

I know exactly what I’m looking for, since when I go to my local antique store the silver is always tarnished. If it isn’t, I check on the back to see if it says “Silver plate”

Some good points made! Some silver has “other” metals mixed with it so you might end up with a near silver product. Thanks for sharing this! 👍

I found a 59 piece oneida sterling silver

Thank you very much

Where do you take your pewter, thanks

I.S stands for international silver. The company makes mainly Silver plate

I shouldn’t imagine there’s to many people who don’t know this in England. Never done any test apart from looking for a hallmark.

Thank you

I enjoyed the video. I am always looking for new tricks for finding treasure. You mentioned towards the end of the video that you also buy pewter prices and sell it for about $20 a pound. My question is where do you sell it as scrap. I live in western Canada and so far none of the scrap yards here buy it as scrap aluminium. He'll if I found a deal in Washington State that I could ship mine to I don't see how I could loose. Our$ is only worth .75cents and I can find cheap pewter any day of the week. Thanks going to check some more of your video's

Very informative. Still, silver plate has some value. Today, I found a small set of Rogers Bros Ancestral pattern at the local Goodwill store. They were 10 cents a piece and I pounced on them. Even though I know they are not sterling, I can definitely get at least $10 each for one of these antiques.

@livefree6878

5 жыл бұрын

From time to time I’ll pick up Reed and Barton silver plate. It does seem like some brands do better than others. Is your plan to sell them on eBay?

@just8310

5 жыл бұрын

So is ur mom

@danaricci5044

5 жыл бұрын

These are not antiques yet. Vintage 1924.

@just8310

5 жыл бұрын

@@yougerard1976 no I'm just bored I try to get reactions out of people I spend much of my time in the hospital I'm dying of cancer so I figured what the hell LOL

@just8310

5 жыл бұрын

@@danaricci5044 that means your mom is vintage

Thanks for sharing My dear brother God bless you 🙏🙏😇❤️ from Mirpur khass Pakistan

Sterling silver is .925. Pure silver is. 999 to. 9999...

@kostanabanjac4896

5 жыл бұрын

Anthony Mann BUT it is impossible to work with....

good tips and the background music was fit in very well with the video content. It was low and appropriate.

@livefree6878

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I appreciate the comment

Knife was made in 1943? Who the hell was making sterling flatware in the middle of WWII?

I think the different ring tones has to do with the size of the coin not the silver content.

@jasonnorthcutt4008

3 жыл бұрын

I guess it could definitely be very hard to distinguish but if you give me five quarters and one of them silver and they hit the counter. I'll tell you if there's silver there. I grew up in the 70s and 80s we were always looking for it in circulation. I've alerted several cashier's that they had silver in their drawer. I could hear it when they dropped my change on top of it.

@YeshuaIsTheTruth

Жыл бұрын

The size affects the pitch, the material affects the tone. Tone is basically quality. Do you hear how bright and clear the silver sounds compared to the other two? It's like a bell but less tinny or brassy than most bells.

Every single element has some sort of susceptibility to magnetic fields. Iron is the most common known magnetic field susceptible material. However, if you’re getting a magnetic response by waving a magnet over junk silver just know that junk silver is not pure silver. It has different periods but it’s usually a silver alloy. If you have a really huge neodymium magnet and wave it over an aluminum pie plate, you can get the pie plate to move...not much tho.

I had no idea I could move fast enough to induce a current in non ferrous metals with rare earth magnet this is crazy

You can also use silver acid

.925 is more normal for a marking on sterling. On Coin Silver Flatware you can see the word Coin of .800. On High end Silver you'll see .999 or Fine usually in all caps, Not normal on flatware though, more often on platters or tea services.

@lydiaanderson2870

3 жыл бұрын

@Hello drskull9, How are you doing?

Nice thank you!

@foureyedchick

5 жыл бұрын

Are you a fan of Jefferson Airplane?

@sundaywhiterabbit7679

5 жыл бұрын

Nerdygirl lol! Yeah sure they are cool. Nice song and i do love it. But it actually is symbolises Truth. In Alice stories as well as the song it is an analogy for chasing Truth. The "rabbit hole" as explained in the movie The Matrix is when you are lost in the warren searching for Truth. Truth is elusive so the story goes. Would you like to take the red pill and see how deep the rabbit hole goes? I took the red pill. Lol. Nice to meet you. I am Sunday White Rabbit.

You have a butter knife, and a fish knife. Sheffield was well known for silver plating, so unless there is a Hall mark, I wouldn’t buy it as a silver object

What if you buy silver outside UK?

How do you sell the Pewter for $20.00 a pound?

I took some schears, and cut a new Quarter in Half- Inside was some kind of White Metal, Same for new dimes -The " Copper" color around the edge is just for show --

Nice educational video no complaints thank you

Yep you have know idea

I don't get the magnet test... silver and copper aren't magnetic... What am i missing?

I sell gold to my jewelry store, would they buy pewter too you think?

I thought silver isn't magnetic? So shouldn't the real silver knife be the one that isn't affected by the magnet?

Thanks for the video.

@livefree6878

5 жыл бұрын

👍

@lydiaanderson2870

3 жыл бұрын

@Hello Ricky H, How are you doing?

Magnet works really well and look up 925 or sterling silver

But where and how do you sell those funds to get paid the value?

Very good. I want to get an Authenticator. Expensive but will save me from counterfeit coins

Couldn't hear it from your background music

Size of the striking surface also makes a difference in sound

Hallmarks of and on Silver flatware depending.

You can also do the icecube test. Set ice cube on top , if it starts melting immediately , its silver. You will notice when puddling begins almost instantly. Silver insulates heat.

What is pooder?