Antique Silver

Last month at a party, I met this gentleman who owns couple of “cash for gold stores”, that we see pop up all over since the precious metal prices shot up.

I was stunned to hear that a lot of antique silver and even silver plate pieces are getting melted down these days in order to make money.  A lot of people are grabbing silver pieces from the antique stores and selling to these shops. The gentleman said he feels bad melting some of those antique pieces but then it is his livelihood and he can’t afford not to melt them.

So the next day I went out to save antique silver pieces, with my limited budget I did manage to buy a few sterling and a few silver-plate pieces for personal collection and also to give as gift for the holidays. I can’t save them all, but I did some. It feels good. If you can save any, please do so, it seems if the prices of precious metals keep going up, most of the antique silver will be melted away.

castillo silver plate lapis lazuli pitcher

Antique sterling+cutglass caviar dish . French

Japanese dragon motif silver bowl

Lapis lazuli silver plate candlestick c.1960

Russian silver cigarette-case

silver plate mexican water pitcher

Sterling and crystal bowl 1800s. German

Sterling tea caddy

Reed and Barton silver plate set c. 1958

sterling hunting-hound cufflinks

 Credits: 1stdibs, google etc

Cary Grant

“I think being relaxed all times, and I mean relaxed, not collapsed, can add to the happiness and duration of one’s life and looks. And relaxed people are fun to be around”. Cary Grant

And relaxed he was, all his 82 years of life and fun he was to be around with.  And even now 26 years after his death, he is fun when you watch his movies; he is relaxed when you look at his photos.

Cary Grant was a gentleman, a style icon, a great movie star, a great father and a great man.

At age 5

On the set

You don't lose your identity up on the screen. It's always you...  CG

The Philadelphia Story

The Grass is Greener

NYC, shooting North by Northwest

With Grace Kelly in "To catch a Thief"

Gregory Peck, Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Sophia Loren, Doris Day (back to camera), Cary Grant, Ronald Reagan and Dorothy Malone listening to dir. Parker during rehearsals for 30th annual Academy Awards show at the RKO Pantages theater

If you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don't bump into other actors... CG

With Katharine Hepburn

With Ingrid Bergman

Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant

Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe

How the devil do I know what I would have become if hadn't become an actor? CG

Cary Grant in "Male War-bride"

katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant on the set 

Cary, Eva, Hitchcock and James

Hepburn, Cary and Stewart

Cary and  Priscilla Lane

Rock Hudson, Cary Grant, Marlon Brando and Gregory Peck

Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Bob Hope and Sir David Niven

The only really good thing about acting in movies is that there is no heavy lifting. CG

 Cary and Virginia Cherrill

Cary and BarbaraHutton

Cary and BetsyDrake

Cary and Dyan Cannon

Cary and Barbara Harris

I could have gone on acting and playing a grandfather or a bum, but I discovered more important things in life. I retired when I became a father because I didn't want to miss any part of my daughter's growing up. Jennifer is the best production I ever made. CG

Cary Grant and daughter Jennifer Grant

I'm too busy living my life to write about it. CG

In Father Goose

North by Northwest

To Catch a Thief 

Charade

With Tony Curtis in Operation petticoat

Credits: google, evenings wit cary grant etc.

Happy New Year

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Happy Holidays

Chesapeake Energy holiday lights OKC

picture credits: google