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Well this is the longest saga i have experienced. 
This is an interesting but unidentified 1kg bar. I suspect it was made for a jewellery chain store as a gift or presentation type of product back in the day - could be 1980's at a guess. The style of the font is reminiscent of another bar i have which was an electrical company promo product.
Well I bought the bar and then Royal Mail delivered it to the wrong house. After a fortnight the people at the wrong house contacted us and we retrieved the bar. All's well that ends well I suppose.
 

Well this is the longest saga i have experienced. 
This is an interesting but unidentified 1kg bar. I suspect it was made for a jewellery chain store as a gift or presentation type of product back in the day - could be 1980's at a guess. The style of the font is reminiscent of another bar i have which was an electrical company promo product.
Well I bought the bar and then Royal Mail delivered it to the wrong house. After a fortnight the people at the wrong house contacted us and we retrieved the bar. All's well that ends well I suppose.
 

Well this is the longest saga i have experienced. 
This is an interesting but unidentified 1kg bar. I suspect it was made for a jewellery chain store as a gift or presentation type of product back in the day - could be 1980's at a guess. The style of the font is reminiscent of another bar i have which was an electrical company promo product.
Well I bought the bar and then Royal Mail delivered it to the wrong house. After a fortnight the people at the wrong house contacted us and we retrieved the bar. All's well that ends well I suppose.
 

If you put the real thing alongside the fake you can see the fake is absolutely diabolical
 
  

Well this is the longest saga i have experienced. 
This is an interesting but unidentified 1kg bar. I suspect it was made for a jewellery chain store as a gift or presentation type of product back in the day - could be 1980's at a guess. The style of the font is reminiscent of another bar i have which was an electrical company promo product.
Well I bought the bar and then Royal Mail delivered it to the wrong house. After a fortnight the people at the wrong house contacted us and we retrieved the bar. All's well that ends well I suppose.
 

Well this is the longest saga i have experienced. 
This is an interesting but unidentified 1kg bar. I suspect it was made for a jewellery chain store as a gift or presentation type of product back in the day - could be 1980's at a guess. The style of the font is reminiscent of another bar i have which was an electrical company promo product.
Well I bought the bar and then Royal Mail delivered it to the wrong house. After a fortnight the people at the wrong house contacted us and we retrieved the bar. All's well that ends well I suppose.
 

Well this is the longest saga i have experienced. 
This is an interesting but unidentified 1kg bar. I suspect it was made for a jewellery chain store as a gift or presentation type of product back in the day - could be 1980's at a guess. The style of the font is reminiscent of another bar i have which was an electrical company promo product.
Well I bought the bar and then Royal Mail delivered it to the wrong house. After a fortnight the people at the wrong house contacted us and we retrieved the bar. All's well that ends well I suppose.
 

Well this is the longest saga i have experienced. 
This is an interesting but unidentified 1kg bar. I suspect it was made for a jewellery chain store as a gift or presentation type of product back in the day - could be 1980's at a guess. The style of the font is reminiscent of another bar i have which was an electrical company promo product.
Well I bought the bar and then Royal Mail delivered it to the wrong house. After a fortnight the people at the wrong house contacted us and we retrieved the bar. All's well that ends well I suppose.
 

Well this is the longest saga i have experienced. 
This is an interesting but unidentified 1kg bar. I suspect it was made for a jewellery chain store as a gift or presentation type of product back in the day - could be 1980's at a guess. The style of the font is reminiscent of another bar i have which was an electrical company promo product.
Well I bought the bar and then Royal Mail delivered it to the wrong house. After a fortnight the people at the wrong house contacted us and we retrieved the bar. All's well that ends well I suppose.
 

Well this is the longest saga i have experienced. 
This is an interesting but unidentified 1kg bar. I suspect it was made for a jewellery chain store as a gift or presentation type of product back in the day - could be 1980's at a guess. The style of the font is reminiscent of another bar i have which was an electrical company promo product.
Well I bought the bar and then Royal Mail delivered it to the wrong house. After a fortnight the people at the wrong house contacted us and we retrieved the bar. All's well that ends well I suppose.
 

Well this is the longest saga i have experienced. 
This is an interesting but unidentified 1kg bar. I suspect it was made for a jewellery chain store as a gift or presentation type of product back in the day - could be 1980's at a guess. The style of the font is reminiscent of another bar i have which was an electrical company promo product.
Well I bought the bar and then Royal Mail delivered it to the wrong house. After a fortnight the people at the wrong house contacted us and we retrieved the bar. All's well that ends well I suppose.
 

Well this is the longest saga i have experienced. 
This is an interesting but unidentified 1kg bar. I suspect it was made for a jewellery chain store as a gift or presentation type of product back in the day - could be 1980's at a guess. The style of the font is reminiscent of another bar i have which was an electrical company promo product.
Well I bought the bar and then Royal Mail delivered it to the wrong house. After a fortnight the people at the wrong house contacted us and we retrieved the bar. All's well that ends well I suppose.
 

Well this is the longest saga i have experienced. 
This is an interesting but unidentified 1kg bar. I suspect it was made for a jewellery chain store as a gift or presentation type of product back in the day - could be 1980's at a guess. The style of the font is reminiscent of another bar i have which was an electrical company promo product.
Well I bought the bar and then Royal Mail delivered it to the wrong house. After a fortnight the people at the wrong house contacted us and we retrieved the bar. All's well that ends well I suppose.
 

£2 - it's an auction now.
Finishes in 5 minutes, better be quick.

£2 - it's an auction now.
Finishes in 5 minutes, better be quick.

I'm always looking for something unique.

I'm always looking for something unique.

I'm always looking for something unique.

Argenta - members have sold bars from these people
 
Here we see Baird casting bars
 

Here is my pal Jim Forsythe and his outfit.
The clip starts with them making cast bars.
 

Argenta - members have sold bars from these people
 
Here we see Baird casting bars
 

Here is my pal Jim Forsythe and his outfit.
The clip starts with them making cast bars.
 

This video shows a 250g Umicore cast bar - we can see a horizontal ding on one edge of the bar - looks like an after casting mark
 
Here Salivating Silver talks about cast and poured bars
 

This video shows a 250g Umicore cast bar - we can see a horizontal ding on one edge of the bar - looks like an after casting mark
 
Here Salivating Silver talks about cast and poured bars
 

You need to be very careful about buying silver since Brexit and the UK being cut off from the low tax silver that used to be so plentiful.
As i am in the EU i can get 2024 Britannias like this - that's £20.87. Granted there is delivery but i get goldsilver.be to keep the silver in the client vault and send it when i have a good lot.

Personally i would not buy from UK dealers unless there was something i really liked in the margin scheme. I do buy silver off TSF. There are good deals to be had. There are good deals b/c i buy some of them - but often you have to be very quick.
If you are 'investing' then you should not be buying silver with VAT on it if you can avoid that and you can. You are investing in silver - not collecting a particular coin you can only find at a dealer's. Buy what you like but get a liking for pieces that represent good value and are easy to sell when the day comes you need to sell. If you don't do that and you have to sell in a hurry you may well come unstuck. However if you have items that were already in the aftermarket and were good value, it means someone else has experienced the potential loss and not you.

i used the phrase 'investing'. Remember you are not an investor, not a trader - you are a hobbyist, a collector. This may be important when it comes to selling b/c you are selling your private property, your chattels. You do not have to face any CGT issues then. Worth searching for chattels on the forum for the discussions. 
Try to avoid ebay - it is full of scam merchants. i try to avoid buying low numbers of coins - the postage per coin is too high. i do look to having the coins sent SD - right now i have a problem with a bar i bought. The Royal Mail had it the parcel had been delivered except the photo of the front door wasn't the right one - it wasn't a door anywhere near the delivery address. It turns out it was a house 1.5 miles away. The post office has apparently said they will get someone to go round to the address (which i do not know the identity of) and get the parcel back. It has all been tracked and it is all insured. Shlt happens sometimes.