Pewter

[WALLNUTT]

Hit the yard sales this morning and did pretty good. 3.2lbs of pewter for $4.Tripod for spotting scope at Goodwil for $2.50(half price Sat.)

[500MAG]

Love those type of days. It's like a treasure hunt.

[Beagle333]

That's great! I hit the Thrift store 3 times this week..... scored zero. The only pewter they have had in stock is a tray set and they won't break it up and it's not worth the price with all the glassware.

[dubber123]

Probably 3+ lbs. for me today. Not as cheap as your score, but still cheap

[Gun_nut83]

Man, I really need to start hitting yard sales and thrift stores. Great find!

[imashooter2]

Fine scrounging gentlemen!

[Spruce]

Good scores. I have yet to see any in my travels.

[WALLNUTT]

I just told the gal how nice the bowl and goblet set looked. Her grandmother brought it back from Europe.

[dubber123]

Guesstimate of 4+ pounds today. A large wine? decanter I would bet is over 2# on it's own. I would have called it a vase, but it has a lid with a loop on the top. My heaviest piece yet.

[mold maker]

Sellers around here think it's silver plated gold. It's all ​VINTAGE STUFF, just like E bay.

[a.squibload]

I got a glass-bottom mug yesterday but paid too much.
No I'm not tellin'.

[Buck Neck It]

The pewter I bought cost $1.60/#. Unfortunately, it only weighed 2.5 oz. and is high lead. Oh well, skunk off the deck.

[RogerDat]

I picked up a $23 digital scale from HF that would run off of batteries so I could carry it in my pocket to weigh stuff. Not sure if I would break it out at a garage sale but at a flea market I would. Did this after I bought one of those plastic bottom tankards and found it weighed about half of what I though it did.

Been thinking of going to one of those hippy head shops and picking up a small hanging scale that weighs in grams. I could clip that on, lift, get a weight and doubt anyone at garage sale would notice. Still looking for one of those piles of pewter that people seem to find from time to time.

I also check the scrap yard cast bin, every so often something will show up in there. And that scrap is cheap.

[Eagle66]

I got my Digital scale at Amazon for $3.91

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I use it for almost everything, alloying, pewter in the thrift store, etc.

[Cloudwraith]

I got my Digital scale at Amazon for $3.91

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I use it for almost everything, alloying, pewter in the thrift store, etc.

Awesome! Ordered.

Thanks!

[a.squibload]

Found a beat up pitcher in the thrift store today, more than a foot tall.
Netherlands pewter. Wasn't worth 6.99, no bargaining allowed, but everything
is half price this weekend, if I'm near there maybe.

[Static line]

Kick me. Years ago,maybe 20 or so years when I drank beer,I had a nice little collection of pewter beer mugs,about 50 or so and my aunt had probably several hundred from all over.Her's dissapeared when she died and mine just simply dissapeared.Now I see what a mug like that would cost today and I am beside myself.Seen a beer mug in a flea market and they wanted $35.00 for it.No way.

[WALLNUTT]

More pewter today! Goodwill senior discount. $2.86 for a good size golf trophy bowl(I didn't weigh it).

[imashooter2]

Revere style bowls go over a pound at about 7" diameter.

[dsbock]

I paid $10 for a box lot at an auction today.



The lamp works, so does the bell

A total of 5.5 lbs of pewter. Marked as follows.



I don't think I did too badly for my first haul.

David