Story time: How silver items with a strong narrative can survive being sent for scrap
Sustained scrap silver prices of more than £30 an ounce have sent large quantities of middle-of-the-road Georgian and Victorian domestic silver to the melting pot. Today, to sell well above the bullion price, it helps if silver comes with a strong narrative. ATG reports on a few great storytellers.
HMS Association, a 90-gun, second-rate man-of-war launched from Portsmouth docks in 1697, is one of…