UK Silver Pourers Charity Silver Bar(s) Raffle Supporting The Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal - STAGE 1 THREAD

[BackyardBullion]

@SilverAngel

A very generous donation of an additional 3 ozt 

Our total is now 46 ozt

Getting close to that 50 ozt!

[BackyardBullion]

So, donations flooding in, some of it in cash which means I can pour some bars today!

Here are 3 of probably 5 bars

All sitting around the 9 to 10 oz mark

All the sides have plenty of room for all the marks!

[StBeesSilver]

10 hours ago, BackyardBullion said:

So, donations flooding in, some of it in cash which means I can pour some bars today!

Here are 3 of probably 5 bars

All sitting around the 9 to 10 oz mark

All the sides have plenty of room for all the marks!

Holy smokes, this has took off. Great job BYB, on the organising and the bars.

[Guest]

I was hoping you'd do 5 ozt bars, so more people could win them.  Did the donations stall at around 50 oz?  But I do have to say they look gorgeous.  No one is surprised about that, no doubt.

Edited March 15, 2022 by HappyHippo
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[BackyardBullion]

5 hours ago, HappyHippo said:

I was hoping you'd do 5 ozt bars, so more people could win them.  Did the donations stall at around 50 oz?  But I do have to say they look gorgeous.  No one is surprised about that, no doubt.

The issue is having a big enough piece for everyone to stamp their mark on and look good.

This mould yields a bar that not only looks great but has space. I tried a thinner profile bar that was less weight but they just didn't come out looking right.

The good news is that this has been exceptionally popular that I have no doubt we will do something like this again in the future and have one of the other pourers be the one to make the bars!

[FFposh]

3 hours ago, BackyardBullion said:

The issue is having a big enough piece for everyone to stamp their mark on and look good.

This mould yields a bar that not only looks great but has space. I tried a thinner profile bar that was less weight but they just didn't come out looking right.

The good news is that this has been exceptionally popular that I have no doubt we will do something like this again in the future and have one of the other pourers be the one to make the bars!

Nice idea to maintain a run of them so to speak, with different pourers doing subsequent editions! Could this edition maybe be issue 1(?) and/or mention in some kind of etching that it is to commemorate the Ukraine crisis. Might give the bars a bit more specific meaning going forward?? 

Apologies if treading on toes or something in pipeline already, just a thought🤷.

Beautiful bars of course!!!

[BackyardBullion]

UPDATE 15/3/22

We have now got 47 oz of silver donated.

With the cash transfers of £25/oz I am going to be buying some silver from the secondary market and this will actually yield a little more than 1 oz per £25 so our total is now complete.

A massive thank you to everyone who has donated. 

We will now be working on getting the raffle thread opened and look to the next stages of the project.

Thank you so much all!

BYB

[stefffana]

25 minutes ago, BackyardBullion said:

UPDATE 15/3/22

We have now got 47 oz of silver donated.

With the cash transfers of £25/oz I am going to be buying some silver from the secondary market and this will actually yield a little more than 1 oz per £25 so our total is now complete.

A massive thank you to everyone who has donated. 

We will now be working on getting the raffle thread opened and look to the next stages of the project.

Thank you so much all!

BYB

Hi, @BackyardBullion,

Just I have transferred another £75 into your account, with reference STEFFFANA 3oz, to be a a total of 50 oz donated.

Great idea, well done!

All the best for all of you, nice people!🤗

Stefan.

[BackyardBullion]

10 minutes ago, stefffana said:

Hi, @BackyardBullion,

Just I have transferred another £75 into your account, with reference STEFFFANA 3oz, to be a a total of 50 oz donated.

Great idea, well done!

All the best for all of you, nice people!🤗

Stefan.

Amazing, thank you.

No more donations needed from anyone else please!
Thanks!

[Guest]

Backyard Bullion:  You notice that I did not appear to be concerned about the fact that if more bars were made that it would require extra work to make them. 😀

I think having a Ukrainian etching to denote the purpose of the bar is an excellent idea.

[AtomicSilver]

Thank you BYB for organising this.

Those KitKat bars look amazing, and the ripples are beautiful, can't wait to get my hands on them!!

Might have to buy a few tickets Myself, would be a fantastic piece to own.

[BackyardBullion]

Just now, AtomicSilver said:

Thank you BYB for organising this.

Those KitKat bars look amazing, and the ripples are beautiful, can't wait to get my hands on them!!

Might have to buy a few tickets Myself, would be a fantastic piece to own.

You are very welcome, thanks for being involved and donating!

I want to enter the raffle myself - but I just know I will bloody win one and that will look bad so I will just donate my entries directly to RedCross and sit it out 🙂 

[LiquidMetalsUK]

On 15/03/2022 at 10:34, BackyardBullion said:

UPDATE 15/3/22

We have now got 47 oz of silver donated.

With the cash transfers of £25/oz I am going to be buying some silver from the secondary market and this will actually yield a little more than 1 oz per £25 so our total is now complete.

A massive thank you to everyone who has donated. 

We will now be working on getting the raffle thread opened and look to the next stages of the project.

Thank you so much all!

BYB

Amazing work Mr B the bars look amazing 

[LiquidMetalsUK]

I'll be bidding for sure 😃

[dangelo]

@BackyardBullion - great effort, looking forward to taking part when everything is ready.  Please drop a link in here for everyone if there is a new thread for the actual raffle

I hope your raffle raises some mega funds!

I have lots of personal connections in Ukraine and I've been directly helping people (p2p, no charity body involved), including moving people over borders and directing people safe passages from violence, sending money, housing refugees, connecting people to share shelter, food, water and medicine.  Kiev is getting to be under siege so things are getting worse in terms of supplies and movement of people.  But Eastern & Southern cities have it far worse.  Some Russian vehicles have been posing as red cross but I've not confirmed these reports with eyewitnesses... if that's true then it will make the red cross have a harder time to move around safely, plus routes over the borders are coming under attack because they are also supply routes for weapons smuggled among the humanitarian aid, so big thanks to the weapons dealers for putting the aid convoys at risk.

Anyway, I'll be adding some items for auction (with advance permission of the forum) because I have a friend in Ukraine who is working an assembly line to make bullet proof jackets - because there is a huge shortage.  His group need funds for the various materials and resources to produce these and it seems like a noble defensive effort which can save lives.

D'Angelo

[BackyardBullion]

UPDATE 16/3/22

Hey Everyone!

We had an amazing amount of donations come through in both physical and cash. 

With the cash I calculated £25/oz would be the price to pay for cash donations. 

I am happy to say that I have managed to source some melting silver today for £21.65 per oz!

This means that instead of the predicted 27.75 oz of silver I have managed to source 32 ozt instead!

Assuming all the physical donations arrive this means we will actually have a total of 52 ozt worth of silver. 

I have poured 5 big bars and submitted them today for laser hallmarking, their weight worked out to be about 48 ozt. 

So, I intend to have the remaining silver, approximately 4 ozt as part of the giveaway in most likely coin form that I will choose from my random box of coins featured on my channel. 

That means there will be most likely 9 prizes!

5x big bars

4x 1 oz coins!

More to come in terms of the raffle and entries. 

[Gruff]

This is lining up to be an epic raffle for charity! 

[Thelonerangershorse]

On 16/03/2022 at 18:46, Gruff said:

This is lining up to be an epic raffle for charity!

But when ? ? ?

 

[BackyardBullion]

Just now, Thelonerangershorse said:

But when ? ? ?

 

Soon!

I am due to get the bars back from the assay office this week, once we have them I will get the party started!

[Gruff]

1 minute ago, BackyardBullion said:

Soon!

I am due to get the bars back from the assay office this week, once we have them I will get the party started!

I was just checking the original details and was about to reply at least 3 weeks... but clearly sooner!

[Mrpound]

Can’t wait 😝 

[Gruff]

4 minutes ago, Mrpound said:

Can’t wait 😝 

Me neither... 

[BackyardBullion]

UPDATE - 25th March 2022

OK, we have the bars back from the assay office!

So, they will be winging their way around the country over the next few weeks and we will then be in a position to name a date for the draw to happen.

In the meantime I want to get the entries rolling in so that every few days we can make a nice big donation to The Red Cross

All the information about the charity can be found here: 

https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-crisis-appeal

ENTRIES ARE NOW CLOSED

Prizes

8.96 ozt Ripple Bar

9.49 ozt Ripple Bar

9.96 ozt Ripple Bar

9.74 ozt Ripple Bar

9.68 ozt Ripple Bar

Total: 47.83

1x 1oz silver coin (to be determined at a later date)

1x 1oz silver coin (to be determined at a later date)

1x 1oz silver coin (to be determined at a later date)

1x 1oz silver coin (to be determined at a later date)

ONE PRIZE PER PERSON MAXIMUM

We are going to limit one prize per person to get as many winners as possible.

Winners will not have to pay for any postage/shipping

Winners will, however, be responsible for any import charges for delivery to their home country. 

DRAW DATES

At this time we do not have a specific time for entries to close by and the draw date to happen. 

My best estimate is that we will be able to draw the winners in week commencing 11th April 2022.

As soon as we have firm dates set for this we will communicate out here on the forum.

But I felt it would be a good idea to get the entries rolling in so that we can make donations every other day to The Red Cross sooner rather than later. 

LIVE DRAWING THE RESULTS

I will be hosting a livestream on YouTube to draw the results using a random number generator. Exact details of this selection process will be shared in due course. 

If anyone has any questions or anything else they want to know about this please feel free to ask here or PM me!

Thanks all!
BYB

[SilverAngel]

Fantastic work Mr BYB.  Thanks again for organising this for us all.  So pleased to be a part of this 🙏 

[Gruff]

I'll send you some shekels shortly