That seems like awful lot of money to pay 15 years ago. 2-3 years I was paying 65 - 70 cents/lb for any type of lead and then it went up to a dollar. I bought bags of hard lead shot, linotype, solder, WW. Now the owner lets me have discount on WW 70 cents/lb but I negotiated a deal to buy all his linotype for $0.70/lb 5 buckets of lead, over 500 pounds. I also bought a pig once, pretty sure it was linotype, tested 24 - 26 bhn. I also found bars that says linotype on it, they are connected but break off easily.
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