re: Best place to sell “fancy” household items

I had a few things that were a mixture of silver and silverplate that were my mother in law's to a jewelry store here out of lack of anywhere else to take them other than a pawn shop. Some of it was fairly old,and didn't have markings that I could find, and I certainly didn't want to try to guess.

I was really surprised at the amount of money it came to. They didn't want the silverplate, so I took that to Goodwill. They bought the rest, and I didn't have to deal with it, which was almost as good as the money. I know the owner and have bought from them so I was comfortable that it was a fair value.