Heavy silver candlesticks marked sterling are often filled with cement or wax to prevent tipping. The silver shell is paper-thin, so a pair might contain only an ounce of silver total, worth about $50 in metal value despite their substantial weight.
This is a tricky thing because these are weighted. So these are sterling, but they're weighted. What does weighted mean? There's something inside. To make it stay. Why do they put it inside? People say, oh, my grandfather was so cheap, he got my grandmother this. It's not 'cause he was cheap. Salt and pepper shakers fall. Candlesticks fall. We don't want them to fall. So to do this, they would put cement or wax inside here. And with something like this, this is actually paper thin. That's why it always gets dents around here, because it's super thin. So the actual silver value of it, A pair of these is only going to be maybe $50 for the pair in metal. So that means I think that there's probably maybe an ounce in each one. This is probably about 5 ounces if it wasn't weighted. So that's why something like this is tricky, because when you feel it, it's heavy, it's got to be worth some money. It says sterling, but if you look close, it'll say sterling weighted, it'll say sterling cement filled, or something like that. Please subscribe so you don't miss any future videos.
