Treasure !!

[zombieraccoon]

Wow, just came back from yard sales this morning, and I am floating !


started the day with some solid finds, got this ring for $2, picked up some other misc sterling as well, its got a native hallmark, will have to research later.

carried on found some good selling stuff cheap, an old walkman, a box of foodsaver bags, some table linens, then I hit on this REI mummy bag for $5



Found a silver ladle for $1, mexican eagle stamped




Then the mother of them all




66.5 ozt 90% for $5!!!!! Guess I will be cleaning and listing the rest of the day

 

[JimDon]

Zoombastic find! Congrats

 

[HistoryTeacher]

Holy cow! It was a great day up to the spoon. Then that tray...wow. Congratulations!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratualtions on the nice finds!

 

[zombieraccoon]

Seems like everywhere I look lately is silver.
Tray is a nightmare to clean, they had it wrapped in saran wrap long enough for the saran wrap to decompose and stick to the tray. But I am not complaining. Catching up on tv, and turning my fingers black

 

[Baltimore]

Great finds! The sleeping bag is a great BOLO for people who don't know, good bags from mountaineering companies can bring serious cash, I've gotten $200 plus for cold weather down ones.

 

[zombieraccoon]

Great finds! The sleeping bag is a great BOLO for people who don't know, good bags from mountaineering companies can bring serious cash, I've gotten $200 plus for cold weather down ones.

Unfortunately they cut the tag off this one, its a good one, but don't know the temperature rating on it. May just end up keeping it. Dont know yet.

 

[tamrock]

Man that's a big ingot. Good eye.

 

[FriscoT06]

Top of my my wishlist. Amazing tray, congrats!!!!!

 

[Beachkid23]

Awesome! Congrats! I recently got one too. Not for $5. But wow! I have mine listed online with little intentions of selling it.

 

[captain flintlock]

Those are some amazing finds!! The tray is the prize winner of the lot!! Well done.

 

[zombieraccoon]

And the tray all cleaned up

 

[cheech]

Cleaned up very nice

 

[tamrock]

Yeah cleaning silver can be a real mess. Looks good.

 

[zombieraccoon]

Generally Silver cleans pretty easy, i just use a washcloth dipped in ammonia, will take off all the tarnish, for plated or heavily soiled pieces I will leave the sit in ammonia for 10-20 minutes, or douse paper towels and wrap them on the piece. The tarnish is sulfides on the metal, and the ammonia breaks them down quick and clean. This one however took some extra work because it had been wrapped in saran wrap, and the plastic had decomposed and attached to the sulver, so there was a lot of peeling and rubbing to do.

 

[diggummup]

Generally Silver cleans pretty easy, i just use a washcloth dipped in ammonia, will take off all the tarnish, for plated or heavily soiled pieces I will leave the sit in ammonia for 10-20 minutes, or douse paper towels and wrap them on the piece. The tarnish is sulfides on the metal, and the ammonia breaks them down quick and clean. This one however took some extra work because it had been wrapped in saran wrap, and the plastic had decomposed and attached to the sulver, so there was a lot of peeling and rubbing to do.

Thanks for the tip. I have some seriously tarnished silver that I haven't been able to get clean using my regular method of alum foil boiling water and baking powder. I'll try ammonia.

BTW- That's a heck of a hunk of silver you found there.

 

[trdhrdr007]

My old blind butt can't tell what the mark says. Can you get a better picture and/or tell me what the small lettering above & below the center mark is?

 

[zombieraccoon]

My old blind butt can't tell what the mark says. Can you get a better picture and/or tell me what the small lettering above & below the center mark is?

Made in columbia, its by a silversmith Arturo Medina who sold stuff in Bogata from the 30s-60s. Not much info otherwise, all that is really there is part of the name on top and bottom

 

[Beachkid23]

As far as keeping, these things are huge! This is the one I have. First picture is the tray by a a pile of crap. Second picture is a coin equivalent to the dang platter.. same value. Both awesome!

 

[kali_is_my_copilot]

Congrats on your awesome finds and thank you for the ammonia tip I am legit excited for the next black-filthy-cruddy piece of big silver that I find lol. Not that it matters now for your beautiful tray, but I'm positive that Goo-Gone would have lifted all of that plastic off quite painlessly. It is by far the best (really the only IME) thing going for completely and easily removing adhesive/plastic residue.