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Cosmic_Charlie
11-26-2021, 02:53 PM
12 Plates and a bowl. Not a smoking deal at$75 but much better than buying tin.
kevin c
11-26-2021, 03:10 PM
If you can sell it for more than your cost, it’s not a bad deal, especially if it’s all positively identified (stamped) pewter. I’d be pretty happy getting enough tin to do up ~800# of alloy at under 5$ a pound.
Cosmic_Charlie
11-26-2021, 03:50 PM
If you can sell it for more than your cost, it’s not a bad deal, especially if it’s all positively identified (stamped) pewter. I’d be pretty happy getting enough tin to do up ~800# of alloy at under 5$ a pound.

Yes, it is the best score price wise I've made so far. They wanted $88 for the plates and we settled on $60.
GregLaROCHE
11-26-2021, 03:59 PM
I once collected pewter items and then people started giving pieces to me as presents. Now it’s all sitting on a shelf in the barn covered with dust. I’m getting tempted to melt some down into ingots. It sure is expensive when you buy it in ingot form.
Winger Ed.
11-26-2021, 04:16 PM
It sure is expensive when you buy it in ingot form.

Yeah. In the old days, I'd grab a $6-7 one pound roll of 95/5 if I needed some Tin.
That same roll is over $30. now.
Cosmic_Charlie
11-26-2021, 04:24 PM
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imashooter2
11-26-2021, 04:43 PM
Well under $5 a pound for a commodity that sells new for over $25 a pound isn’t too shabby. Congratulations on your find.
Cosmic_Charlie
11-26-2021, 05:43 PM
We are lucky so much of the pewter is butt ugly. I must have 50 lbs. now, more than enough to outlast my primers. I could use a couple hundred pounds of pure to cut all the ww alloy I have.
lightman
11-28-2021, 09:58 PM
Nice Score! I wish I could find Pewter around here.
William Yanda
11-29-2021, 11:11 AM
As a confirmed pewter hunter, I once found 10 or 12 pewter plates. I sold them on eBay to CA for more than I could have gotten for them as ingots. One of the few items that worked out for.
Cosmic_Charlie
11-29-2021, 12:49 PM
The plates have a very faint hall mark that says pewter. I bent/rolled one into a tube and dipped it in my pot, melted away right now.
Cosmic_Charlie
11-29-2021, 12:51 PM
As a confirmed pewter hunter, I once found 10 or 12 pewter plates. I sold them on eBay to CA for more than I could have gotten for them as ingots. One of the few items that worked out for.

Well, I need to find a mess of pure to make my investment pay.