Sharps Pixley

[LawrenceChard]

On 22/01/2023 at 00:34, ChrisSilver said:

@ZRPMs if you have a VPN enabled try disabling it temporarily. I’ve noticed that some websites sometimes do not like VPNs.

Similarly if you don’t have a VPN enabled and a website is blocking you, try enabling one. 

Hope that helps  

I / we use VPNs for security.

This is also important if using third party wifi while on the move, as most VPN include encryption as standard.

Notable websites which dislike VPNs include the BBC, Jet2, and Crystal.

It can be annoying to have to disable the VPN temporarily, for at least two reasons, one being the inconvenience, the other being the security risk.

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[Happypanda88]

10 minutes ago, LawrenceChard said:

"They have been around for years. "

But possibly not as many as you think.

"Sharps Pixley was a British bullion house. It was formed in 1957 when two private bullion partnerships merged: Sharps Wilkins, founded in 1740, and Pixley & Abell, founded in 1852"

Sharps Pixley was bought by Kleinwort Benson in 1966 (Wikipedia). 

There is more, but I would need more time to check it out.

The current Sharps Pixley Limited was only registered in 2008!

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That's far longer than I have been a PM collector / stacker. 

But I suspect the message you're trying to convey is that Chards has been around much longer !  😎

[LawrenceChard]

57 minutes ago, Happypanda88 said:

That's far longer than I have been a PM collector / stacker. 

But I suspect the message you're trying to convey is that Chards has been around much longer !  😎

It's more that some people might think SP was the original, and had been around for centuries.

Not the fact that I have been around long enough to be a dinosaur.

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Edited February 2, 2023 by LawrenceChard