Wow thank you! I figured it’d be difficult if it was special. I guess it’s just be a scrap piece. Still money! And a curiosity for sure lol. I appreciate the time you took to answer. I will read that thread.That's quite the hunk of lead, and even if you were to sell it as lead you need to remove the iron pan/plate/pot from the piece. (pictures it looks like a pot)
Get a magnet test the piece that I referred to.
Now for it to be Low-alpha lead it has to meet a certain standard.
Most of that is lead that pre dates the 1800s
Have a read on this forum thread
Low-alpha / antiquity lead
Hi All, I am looking for antiquity or "low-alpha" lead. This lead would need to be from the early 1700's or even older. Most likely place to find it would be on ancient shipwrecks. Does anyone have access to this lead?www.treasurenet.com
The thing is very few yards that buy scrap might of heard of low alpha lead.
Next thing is where to sell the item?
Before one sells the item is where to test the item?
Even if the item is in fact LAL(Low Alpha Lead) it's only 20 lbs, and that isn't high weight item to be messing with in the industry.
Not to throw water on the candle of hope here, it's just that when I owned a scrap yard and having inquiries of LAL here was my dilemma.
I called 5 brokers, all of them stated they didn't deal in it-didn't have a buyer for it.
Having a single item of metal that might be worth extra money is worth separating if there is a market for that metal.
If the buyer(me) doesn't have a buyer(broker), then that piece of metal is basically thrown into the barrel of other metals.
Scrap metal recycling is the 180 degrees from manufacturing.
Metal
Scrap yard(Might sell to bigger yard)
Broker(could go to another larger broker)
Foundry/mill
Distributer
Manufacturer
Just have to test to see if that piece is iron.
