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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 8415674, member: 4910&quot;]Keep it or sell it? Deciding what to do with the family silver</p><p><br /></p><p>From the San Jose Mercury News, July 7, 2022:</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s no right and wrong here, but if you, too, have inherited the family silver, you should know what you have and what it&#039;s worth. Just don&#039;t base &quot;worth&quot; on what the silver you own would cost new today - or even used.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Although new sterling flatware costs around $1,000 a place setting, you can barely give it away used,&quot; said Sandy Bourbonnais, owner of Silver Superstore, a Seattle-based online and brick-and-mortar store, which she and her husband opened 23 years ago. </p><p><br /></p><p>Thus, many sell their silver for its melt value instead. I took my silver chest to Orlando Estate Buyer in Winter Park, Fla., where owner Daniel Montesi weighed it in troy ounces and, based on that day&#039;s silver price, offered to buy it for $1,300, one-tenth what it would cost new and less than half of what it would cost used.</p><p><br /></p><p>Meanwhile, silver preservationists, like Martin Biro, part owner of San Francisco&#039;s Biro &amp; Sons Silversmiths, says, &quot;To us, melting sterling silver is like burning books or art.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the whole article which may ask for a subscription:</p><p><a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/07/07/keep-it-or-sell-it-deciding-what-to-do-with-the-family-silver" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/07/07/keep-it-or-sell-it-deciding-what-to-do-with-the-family-silver" rel="nofollow">https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/07/07/keep-it-or-sell-it-deciding-what-to-do-with-the-family-silver</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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