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New Member
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I can't figure this picture thing out. Sorry  |
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Pillar of the Community
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 ! Hahahahhaha..... We lost the pic in the 1st thread with the front of the bar! I would help ya but I have issues at times too! |
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After seeing the back, I'm leaning towards a bad pour.
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From what you said it appears to have faild the magnet test. does it have a high pitched ring if you hit it with a screwdriver or hammer (or something metalic)?
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Pillar of the Community
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Yeah silver is non magnetic and should have had no attraction to the magnet none at all.
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I hit it with a screwdriver and it did make kinda of a high pitched ring, pluse I weighed it the weight comes out .23 over 3oz's. I just took it to a pawn shop they put acid on it and weighed it. They said its real .
Then I took it to a coin shop they did the same and said it was real.
But both places said to do a specific gravity test to be more accurate .
If any one knows how to do this and what / where to get the tools from please share?
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Well then I would take it as real. I'm sure that the stronger magnet you have...the chance increase that it would stick because of foreign contaminants and such. This is what I heard. The magnet will fall off quickly but will have a bit of attraction. If it passed acids tests by those places then I would assume yer good to go. Now we just got to get back to the OP and find out what this thing is worth and maybe some history.
Edited by samsnate
12/08/2012 7:16 pm
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I heard the Lson name might not be as significant as I was told.
That its probably just worth the silver weight.
But no one seems to know who or what L son is.
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From a quick search: L-Son is "short" for Lawrence & Sons smelters & refiners out of Mojave Ca. L-Son is noted for the purity of their silver and old pour L-Son bars are highly sought after. Do I get a cookie?  Edited by Windchild
12/08/2012 7:44 pm
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Vary nice Windchild , yes you deserve a cookie!
Thank you.
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Pillar of the Community
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Many small refinery's that made these old pour bars have come and gone along the way over the years, most of which had a name which carried little significance to their bars premium now and as crude as that is very possible made by just a individual/amateur bar maker perhaps, if not for once having Lson on the bar, which may be an exception to my thought above and sought after as Windchill mentioned.... Any old Nevada silver company always seem to go crazy high on ebay as well.... As far as the minor magnet pull, perhaps the bar is .925 or even .988 or something with just enough metal content to draw that pull, which like TBK said should not occur at all.... I grabbed me a nice set of pocket scales on ebay for 10 bucks so as to eliminate any odd weight items. Con artist cant match the weight correctly all to often.... And a difference of .2 DWT is probably just scales off a bit and nothing to concern ones self with, however and entire gram off or DWT especially is a red flag I figure. Obviously with a random weight old pour that is irrelevant to this bar, but not with Pandas, ASE, Morgans, etc.... Edited by Silverhawk74
12/09/2012 12:31 am
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I think it was just a bad air bubble pour as mentioned before as well....
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Posted 12/08/2012 2:45 pm
