in the walls of my old house have makers mark i thinks stamped pat 1876 sterling have about a doz pices my wife told me that it is .925 but not stamped 925 anywhere there are all very good condition any help would be great thanks

the markers mark is very small a circle with a w inside and i think a horse or lion next to that

Yes, Sterling is .925. Nice find.

also found a 1939 nys worlds fair spoon .was able to find the makers mark and has a lion stamp which makes them .950 silver value today spot was 1.07 per gram have appox 4lbs of this stuff

Four lbs. = 64 oz x 28 grams=1792 grams x 1.07 = 1917 bucks. Nice find!

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Nice find

I always wonder about the story of how stuff got in the walls like that

Congrats on the find

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Good find

Cause some kid found a hole in the wall and was depositing things there, lol

My cousin Dennis was a handful and my Aunt would get after him with a wooden spoon, and she always wondered where her wooden spoons went when she needed one...Years later the new owner of the house was asking the neighbors why the crawl space in the basement was full of wooden spoons, lol

the house was build 1906 there was still some newspaper stuffed in the floor joist may of 1906. this house was the first one in the area was a big farm not a mile rom where the erie canal was

Not to be picky but only educational, Sterling is .925 so the value would be 7.5 percent less.

Pure silver is too soft to be used as silverware

I have some silver plated "silverware" around here somewhere but I don't imagine it's worth much?

I’ll accept that.

mine has a lion stamp next to the makers mark Brittania silver (950): Brittania silver is an alloy made of 95% silver, which exceeds the requirement for sterling silver. It is most often marked 950. This silver qualifies as sterling, but it is slightly softer than sterling pieces marked 925 or simply sterling

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