283.8 grams sterling

[Indian Steve]

Yesterday i visited a local thrift store and this 283.8 gram S. Kirk & Son Sterling candy dish. It was a pretty crappy day before finding this.

 

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[Indian Steve]

It is 8 inches across.

 

[Red-Coat]

Great score. Your thrift shop obviously doesn't know much about silver. Over here, our equivalents to thrift shops check everything and you'd almost never find anything like that. They all watch the Antiques Roadshow and other TV programmes. Suddenly, everyone's an expert... or at least they think they are, LOL

 

[ArfieBoy]

Beautiful candy dish... and Sterling, too! Congratulations. Thanks for sharing with us.

 

[Blak bart]

Nice work steve....hope your well my friend. Great score ya got there.

 

[Bobwilki]

Great score! Love thrift stores.

 

[HistoryTeacher]

A hefty chuck of silver can really turn a day around! Great catch.

 

[Jose The Goon]

What a great score !! Beautiful looking too !!
CONGRATS !! Best wishes to find more like that.
One thing that caught my eye was the 714 under the STERLING. That # 714 brings back memories of one of my favorite TV shows when I was a kid...... "Dragnet".
That was Joe Friday's badge #. I'm going to play that # for a few days in the Mass. State Lottery. Maybe you should give it a shot in Virginia too. Cheers !!

Joe Friday - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Badge 714​

When the original Dragnet went into syndication, the show was renamed "Badge 714", so named for Joe Friday's police badge. A recurring myth was that Jack Webb chose the number 714 because he was a fan of Babe Ruth, who slugged 714 home runs during his career, but it was later asserted in TV commentator Michael J. Hayde's book My Name's Friday that Webb originally wanted the badge number to be "777", tripling the lucky number 7, but decided instead to add the last two digits together to get "14", thus making the badge number "714".

The badge that Friday carried as a lieutenant during the final season of the 1951–59 series was ultimately used in real life by LAPD officer Dan Cooke. As a sergeant, Cooke had been assigned to be the LAPD's liaison with Webb during the production of the 1967–70 series. Just before filming started on the TV-movie that became the pilot for the revived series, Cooke found the badge that the LAPD had lent to Webb in 1958–59 season. However, Webb informed Cooke that he wanted Friday to be a sergeant in the revived series, and, consequently, would not need the lieutenant's badge from the original show. Cooke put the unused badge in a desk drawer and forgot about it. Years later, after being promoted to lieutenant himself, Cooke found the badge and asked for permission to use it.

When Jack Webb died in 1982, LAPD Chief Daryl Gates officially retired Badge 714; Webb was also buried with full police honors, a rarity for a non-policeman.

 

[tamrock]

Good score. I'm always looking in my local thrifts just about every day for what ever comes by in the way of a treasure. Haven't come by any silver in awhile. Tonight I stopped by and there were some old things added, that to me is a good sign that something unique, just might be due to come in soon. I'll tell you Red Coat, these big thrift shops over here get such large volumes of merchandise they just about have no time to investigate all of it, except the jewelry and they can miss the value on those at times. The thrift store employees knowledge of antiques is extremely narrow. They're not payed much and the only thing they care to watch is what's going on with their socal media activity.

 

[JimDon]

Very nice! I would certainly hate to have to polish this one.

 

[detectorcowboy]

It looks like a fancy Volkswagen hubcap.

 

[UnderMiner]

Same weight as 125+ silver dimes! Imagine that!