I have some pewter that I bought at garage sales. Some of it is known pewter and some I just believe is pewter. I got a little lead flashing,a small melting pot, and some fishing sinker molds from my brother that I never knew he had. I would like to melt some of this pewter into different sized sinkers to store. Is there anything special I should know about melting pewter? And also, I plan on melting the unknown( what I think is pewter) seperately to be safe. Should I melt all my different pieces seperately? At a sale today they had some pewter plates. These were some type of special edition bicentennial. I wish I rememberes the markings on the back, but I dont. I believe there were 4 or 5 plates and just guessing I'd say they weighed 2.5 lbs a piece. They didnt have a price tag on them and the lady in charge of the sale was ready to leave for the day. Tommorrow when the sale resumes everything is half price. What would be a decent price for me to buy this 12.5 lbs of pewter? I'd really like to get it to melt, not collect. Believe me guys, I dont have a plate collection. Thanks for any and all comments. Tom