4/8/24 Report - Finds With Potentially Reclaimable Silver. Hatpin Peril. White Horse Whiskey. Three Piece Mold.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasuree Beaches Report.

Silver prices have been pretty high lately. I've sold very little over the years, but recently I did sell some sterling silverware. Maybe you found some items that you didn't realize as being silver or having silver content. Did you know, for example, that the instant photographic film and even older prints contain? silver that can be reclaimed?  

There are a lot of items that you should check to see if they are silver.  Here are some of those.

• The handles and tips of walking canes
• Letter openers
• Lighters and lighter cases
• Paperweights
• Buttons
• Belt buckles
• Cigarette and cigar cases
• Eyeglass frames and cases
• Commemorative plates and medals
• Punchbowls
• Serving platters
• Salad-service spoons and forks
• Handles of carving knives
• Jewelry of all kinds
• Hair pins and combs
• Pocket watches, fobs and chain
• Candlesticks and candelabras
• Picture frames
• Light fixtures and switch plates
• Mantle and wall clocks
• Trophies

Source: Why You Can Make More Money than Ever by Recycling Silver — Reclaim, Recycle, and Sell your Precious Metal Scrap (specialtymetals.com)

Old Hair or Hatpin.

I thought this was a hat pin, but maybe a hair pin.  I found a few of those but never tested this one.

It seems hatpins could be up to nine inches in length and used as an effective weapon.

Here is an interesting bit of history.  It is a 1907 article on the hatpin peril.   

"The Hatpin Peril" Terrorized Men Who Couldn't Handle the 20th-Century Woman | History| Smithsonian Magazine

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Here are a couple White Horse Whiskey bottles with the painted white horse still in good shape.  They aren't very old, but I kept them simply because of the white horse, but as it turns out, there is some good history behind the Scotch White Horse Distillery.

Couple White Horse Distillery Bottles
Found on the Treasure Coast.

“This is one of the rare examples of a company taking its name from a brand, although the present title was only adopted in 1924 with the death of Sir Peter Mackie. Mackie & Co., Distillers, Ltd then became White Horse Distillers Ltd to reflect the company’s enormous success worldwide with its White Horse brand, originally known as Mackie’s White Horse Cellar Scotch Whisky when introduced in the late 1880s. Mackie established his company in 1883, although it can claim a more ancient heritage since he had previously worked for his uncle, James Logan of J. Logan Mackie & Co. (Distillers) Glasgow, whose origins go back to 1801 and which had acquired Lagavulin distillery on Islay. The distillery, whose name in Gaelic means ‘mill in the valley’ is said to have antecedents which date back to 1742. The distillery proper was built much later, in the early nineteenth century. There was a succession of owners but it was the Grahams who entered into partnership with James Logan Mackie. Thereafter, its future became part of the Mackie story and prospered accordingly...

Here is the link for more about that.

https://mywhiskyjourneys.com/pages/white-horse-story

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Whether it is coins or bottles, I find that I'm paying more attention to the materials and methods of construction.  The markings don't tell the entire story.

You might look at the mold seams and look for bubbles in the glass, but there are several other signs you should look for.  The glass of newer bottles is thinner and more regular in thickness, for example.

I've found a lot of bottles, but very very few that were made by a three-piece mold.  Here is an example.

Bottle Made Using a Three-Piece Mold (left) and Three-Piece Mold (right).

If you look at the mold seams on this bottle, you'll see a seam running around the top of the cylinder, and a seam coming down from the bottom of the lip to that horizontal seam.  Beside the bottle you can see a three-piece mold that would have been used to make this bottle.

Used extensively for liquor bottles, three-piece molds were first used around 1814 but were a popular style and manufacturing method into the early 20th century and are shown in catalogs dating until at least 1908 (Illinois Glass Co. 1908).

See SHA.org for more about three-piece molds.

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The Monday surf will be only two or three feet, but there will be a good high tide as well as a good low tide.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net