Sell Your Silver in Murfreesboro

What Qualifies

• Sterling silver flatware, tea sets, trays, bowls, and hollowware
• Sterling silver jewelry
• Coin silver (.900 fineness)
• Silver marked .800 and other international fineness stamps
• Silverplate items (evaluated separately, since plated pieces have little to no silver content by weight)

The Kinds of Silver We See Most Often

A lot of the silver that comes through our door in Murfreesboro falls into a handful of categories: full flatware sets inherited from a parent or grandparent, individual pieces of jewelry that have been sitting unworn for years, sterling tea sets and serving pieces that were once formal dining staples but rarely get used now, and mixed boxes of silver-colored items where the owner genuinely isn't sure what's sterling and what isn't. All of these are common, and none require any sorting or preparation on your part before you bring them in.

How to Check What You Have

Sterling silver is almost always stamped 925, sometimes written as "sterling" or "ster." Coin silver is stamped 900. European and other international pieces sometimes carry an .800 mark instead. If a piece has no stamp at all, it may still be silver, older or handmade pieces sometimes weren't marked consistently, but we'll need to test it to confirm rather than guess from appearance alone. Silverplate items are usually stamped "EPNS" (electroplated nickel silver), "silverplate," or simply a brand name with no fineness number at all. If you're not sure which category your items fall into, that's completely normal. Bring them in and we'll sort it out at no cost.

How Testing Works

We test for silver content using professional methods, weighing each piece and confirming fineness before making an offer. This happens in front of you, the same as our gold testing process. Tarnish doesn't affect the underlying silver content in any way, it's purely a surface reaction to air exposure, so there's no need to polish anything before you bring it in. In fact, heavily tarnished pieces test exactly the same as freshly polished ones.

Sterling vs. Silverplate: Why the Distinction Matters

This is probably the single biggest point of confusion we see. Sterling silver is 92.5% silver by weight, meaning nearly the entire piece has real, valuable silver content. Silverplate is a thin layer of silver electroplated onto a base metal, usually copper, nickel, or brass, meaning the actual silver content by weight is a small fraction of the piece's total weight. A silverplate serving tray and a sterling serving tray can look nearly identical but be worth dramatically different amounts. We'll explain which category your items fall into and why during the evaluation, rather than letting you assume based on appearance.

Selling a Full Set or Estate Collection

If you're handling an estate or you've inherited a large collection of silver, whether it's one complete flatware set or several boxes of mixed pieces from different sources, bring everything in at once. We'll go through it piece by piece, sort what's sterling from what's plated, and give you one clear total. There's no need to research or presort anything ahead of time, and no minimum quantity required to have items evaluated.

How Your Offer Is Determined

Your offer is based on the confirmed silver weight and fineness, priced against the current market value of silver at the time of your visit. Silver prices move daily along with gold, sometimes with more volatility given silver's smaller market size, so we'll explain exactly how we calculated your offer, weight times fineness times current market price, before you decide whether to accept.

Frequently Asked Questions

Bring your silver in for a free evaluation.

1144 Fortress Blvd, Ste. B • Murfreesboro, TN 37128
Monday through Saturday, 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM. No appointment needed.