Wednesday, September 26, 2012

$950 worth of sterling silver purchased at my local thrift store for $5!


Hey guys, it's me Lino. My new find for today, was a set of six sterling silver goblets, weighing a whopping 28oz. For $5.00, yes $5.00! !  I couldn't believe it when I flipped the bottom of the glass and saw the sterling mark! I grabbed my wife and said "Look at this!"

Silver's at $34.08 today 9/26/12, so that makes these goblets worth close to $950.00!! In just scrap!

I took them home and polished them up.What do you think? Keep looking guys, you never know what's out there at your local thrift store!










Tuesday, September 25, 2012

My First Find

 Ok, I've never done this before (Blogging), so just bare with me. This all started in 2003 one early Sunday morning. My wife and I said to each other "hey let's go for a ride around the neighborhood". We came across a yard sale and decided to stop. I started to look around and I saw this big, old trunk. I opened it and I saw a label that said "Louis Vuitton 1880" and I became curious so I asked my wife "Doesn't Louis Vuitton make purses?" and she said "yes" so I asked her if she cared if I bought it, and she said "NO" I definitely don't want this big trunk in my house!

So I went with my guts and went to ask the guy how much he wanted for the trunk. He said $50 it's very old. I offered him $35, and he told me "they used to use the trunks to put Louis Vuitton bags in it" He accepted my offer of $35 and I bought it.

I didn't know anything about it at the time. When I got home I checked on ebay and I was stunned to see such large price tags. So, I brought it to an appraiser at a local auction house of ours and they valued my trunk at around $6,500 in the condition it was in!!

That's how I got hooked on antiques and collectables.








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