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<p>[QUOTE="MrNate, post: 611925, member: 5515"]Hi Everyone!</p><p><br /></p><p>I honestly wasn't going to hunt today, but that deep drive inside of me to find more silver brought me to check out just one store today. I happened to time my visit to the time they do restocking, and that can prove critical given all the other wonderful people trying to sniff out goodies. Quickly visually scanned through a couple of the bins and I saw a lovely dish that looked very promising. I picked it up and it felt light (a good thing) and it had that wonderful springy bendy quality that only real silver can produce. On first inspection the back of it was blank, and that's why it made it out of the backroom. A couple seconds of scanning closer and I spotted the sneaky marks on the back - ROGERS - STERLING! I would guess in the last couple years my eyes have read WM Rogers on the back of something enough to make me sick, they must have dominating control of the "silver plate" market, because there stuff is everywhere. But not today, real sterling <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />. I grabbed it,and snagged a couple small sterling pieces of flatware too. Total was $3 and some change. enjoy!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]179961[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]179962[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]179963[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]179964[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]179965[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]179966[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]179967[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="MrNate, post: 611925, member: 5515"]Hi Everyone! I honestly wasn't going to hunt today, but that deep drive inside of me to find more silver brought me to check out just one store today. I happened to time my visit to the time they do restocking, and that can prove critical given all the other wonderful people trying to sniff out goodies. Quickly visually scanned through a couple of the bins and I saw a lovely dish that looked very promising. I picked it up and it felt light (a good thing) and it had that wonderful springy bendy quality that only real silver can produce. On first inspection the back of it was blank, and that's why it made it out of the backroom. A couple seconds of scanning closer and I spotted the sneaky marks on the back - ROGERS - STERLING! I would guess in the last couple years my eyes have read WM Rogers on the back of something enough to make me sick, they must have dominating control of the "silver plate" market, because there stuff is everywhere. But not today, real sterling ;). I grabbed it,and snagged a couple small sterling pieces of flatware too. Total was $3 and some change. enjoy! [ATTACH=full]179961[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]179962[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]179963[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]179964[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]179965[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]179966[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]179967[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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