Thread: WOWEEEEE!!!!!

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

Value, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. I had to kind of laugh about my brother-in-law. Back during the last housing bubble he was buying a house and he was, of course, indignant about the skyrocketing prices but he would keep saying this thing, "$XXX,XXX XX?!?! THAT'S A $70,000 HOUSE!" Based on what? What you think or remember that it ought to be worth back in whatever day you're stuck in? That house is worth what someone is willing to pay for it which is another way of saying it's worth what the market will bear. And that is also the case with basically everything else. Now, one thing about that set that does give a definable value is the silver itself. Hell, the scrap value of the silver alone, may be $1, 000.00.

Yeah. I remember when I was new to this hobby around 2006, You'd see NOS or mint vintage go sometimes for simple double digit numbers or just over 100. These days... not so much.

I would not be interested in them, personally. As far as sterling goes, the design is fairly bland.
The blades are Specials, so likely from the 20's I think. So they are marked sterling, but no hallmarks and it reads that some are electropencil marked?
Nice set, but about 175 each would be fair.