THE BOOM IN SILVER
FAMILY PLATE IN THE MELTINGPOT. (R«c. October 29, 10.20 p.m.) London, October 27. Ilatton Garden firms are buying and smelting great quantities of silverware, and paying -lOtl. per ounce over the prewar cost of hall-marked articles. Tho needy middle classes are nmong the largest suppliers, and many are parting with their fast spoon, being content to restock when normal times return. The money changers ■ similarly have sold 100.000 s'mncci of foreign stiver coins, chiefly Trench and Swiss, for smelting purposes. Tho London Chamber of. Commerce supports the immediate introduction of a nickel worth at the niTsent time under 2d. per ounce.—United Service. (Ree. October 30, 0.5 a.m.) London, October 28i Silver has touched a further recordCo 3-8(1. per oz —Aira.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 30, 30 October 1919, Page 5
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126THE BOOM IN SILVER Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 30, 30 October 1919, Page 5
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