Glossary
silver tableware
Silver tableware includes solid silver cutlery and dishes, bought according to weight and fineness.
Silver tableware includes cutlery, pots, bowls, candlesticks and trays. The first and most important question is whether it is solid or plated. Solid silver has hallmarks such as 800, 835, 925 or 999; plated items have numbers such as 90, 100 or 120, often alongside a maker's name.
For solid silver, pure silver content counts at today's price. Plated pieces have only a few grams of fine silver over a nickel silver or alpaca core, making recovery barely worthwhile. The difference in buying value is correspondingly large.
Cutlery has another consideration: knives have steel blades, and heavy handles are often filled with putty or resin for balance. Neither is silver and both are deducted from fine weight. A cutlery box therefore weighs much more than the silver it contains.
Worked example for a cutlery box
A box of solid 800 cutlery weighs a net 1,200 grams. At 1,20 € per gram of fine silver, its material value is 1.152,00 €. Applying a rate of 85 % gives 979,20 €.
The same box in 925 would have a material value of 1.332,00 €. A plated box marked 90 theoretically contains 90 grams of fine silver across 24 pieces, worth around 108,00 €, of which only part can technically be recovered.
Sell silver tableware in Nordhorn
Bring the complete box to Nordhorn rather than sorting it first. We examine it piece by piece, separate solid from plated items and weigh each group. We openly identify anything plated, which you take home unchanged.
For complete services and historic makers, we also check whether collector value exceeds material value. This is quite possible for known manufacturers and complete sets, in which case we quote the higher amount.