Pewter is still out there.

[Bookworm]

Stopped by a thrift store I've looked through many times. I've never found anything useful there, until yesterday.

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The mugs were $6 for the pair - 14 oz. each. The candle sticks were $8 for the pair - 1.25 lbs each.

4-1/4 lbs of pewter, $15.xx with tax total. Under $4/lb. Not a screaming deal, but it's under my self-imposed $5/lb limit. And the candle sticks are hollow.

It'll do.

[Half Dog]

Success!!!!

[CastingFool]

Nice find!

[rancher1913]

your going to lose some weight on the candle sticks because of the weighted base, but every bit of tin helps.

[Bookworm]

Nope, no weighted base. The candle sticks are hollow. I'll snap a pic later.

[lightman]

Envious! Good Score!

[rancher1913]

well thats good, every one I have found had some kind of plastic in the base.

[308Jeff]

Nice scores!


Not a screaming deal, but it's under my self-imposed $5/lb limit.

That's the limit I've set on myself as well.

And I violated it yesterday. Twice.

BUT, it was barely over the limit, so I'm good. :-)

[Dpmsman]

My mother likes to frequent the local thrift store so I asked her to look for pewter for me. The other day she stops over with a pewter plate. But before she left she took the plate with saying it was too pretty to melt.:groner: oh well I guess I might inherit one day.

[Bookworm]

That's funny. Well, not so much.... Mrs Bookworm saw some of the scrap I've found, and confiscated it.
A covered dish of some sort, and a set of 8 small tumblers - juice glass size. They are in her lighted gew-gaw case, and it's certain death to the one foolish enough to muck about in her treasure case.

I did render down the pewter pieces in the first post. Ended up with 4lbs 2oz in little discs. I pour a small amount in the bottom of a muffin tin, making thin discs. They end up 2-4 ounces each.

That brings my cost to $3.70 per pound, not counting the fuel and time. Only lost about 2 ounces in the rendering process. The stuff was clean.

[RogerDat]

Bookworm and I have the same approach, and same problem, except my wife wants to change the treasures frequently so the pewter ones eventually come to me. The muffin tin disks are good form, I found a small steel ladle at the thrift store, like the ones for salad dressing at a salad bar. Heated the handle, bent at 90* and that is my tin "coin" maker ladle.

I try to keep the price down to $3 a pound but in the end I know if I buy pewter already made into ingots the price will be someplace around 7$ to 10$ a pound so even at $5 I'm saving money and a little pewter goes a long way. Think of it as dollar cost averaging, this find may be a bit high but eventually if I keep looking I'll find the 5# for $8 deal and I can average that low price into all the rest.

[lightman]

"Dollar cost averaging". I like that!:p

[Budzilla 19]

I went on a tear about two years ago, and now I just quit looking! I scooped up over 45 lbs of pewter in two years, (traveling in 7 different states) and then 50+ lbs of grade 11 Babbitt showed up! 86%SN, 10.87% SB,2.87%Cu,,............... I'm done. Good luck in your searches, fellows!! It's out there for sure. Dollar cost averaging! I like that also! Hey, we do it for lead scrounging, why not pewter scrounging? Just my .02