Hi, trying to find out some more information and possible value on this gravy boat. Thanks
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Chester, 1905.
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Thanks so much for your help. 
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Here’s another one sold at auction in 2017 for £40.00
Today the price of silver is rather higher but generally small 20th century sauce boats lacking a pair go for about scrap.
So weigh it and go to one of the sterling silver calculators on line and you may be pleasantly surprised.
Seven troy oz of sterling silver is worth about $US500 scrap. The auction house will take nearly half that in seller’s and buyer’s fees.
Then there Ebay’s where the cheapest Chester boat is looking for £168.
CRWW
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Thanks for the information. The ones that you have seen on ebay are they overpriced?
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I prefer the term “previously owned by optimistic people”. Look as the sold items on Ebay for realistic pricing bearing in mind the scrap value increments.
CRWW
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At a time when the price of silver is rising rapidly, as it historically should, start with the “sterling per gram” value, then hang on tight.
The big banks have been suppressing (shorting) the price of silver for a long time, to the point where most people think that the ‘paper price’ is the correct value. It is not, and that fact is beginning to emerge, as more and more players ‘stand for delivery’ rather than leave their silver in a vault in London or New York. There isn’t enough, and the vaults are running dry, because there is more than 350 X paper silver than real silver.
Don’t sell unless you have to. What will you get? Fiat currency that is going to nothing, as all fiat currencies do.
I would rather have a mountain of Sterling jugs than money in the bank. I mean fiat in the bank.
Learn to make good gravy.
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Well said! I now have this wonderful cartoon of you with a “mountain of sterling jugs” hovering in my head.
As I noted somewhere else in this forum I have never parted with land, silver or wives without a sense of loss. While the law tries very hard to make it complex to own multiple residences, and is outright pernickety about the number of wives, it seems relatively liberal on the subject of jugs.
Which of course leaves open the question of what to do with them.
If jugged hare, a 500-year-old recipe for a hunter’s stew involving the unfortunate cousin to the rabbit is still thing, what jug was used in that process and what part did it play in the creation of this delicious dish?
AI is silent on the subject.
CRWW
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Jugging is also street slang for robbery, so make sure that mountain of silver jugs doesn’t get jugged.
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