Melt value
£0
At £1.58 per gram fine, 21 September 2026
Tools
Tools you can use at home
Hallmark identifier
Turn a piece of silver over and find the row of small stamped marks. Pick the ones you can see and the tool tells you the metal, the town, the year and the maker.
Open the hallmark identifierScrap silver calculator
Weigh the piece and choose the standard to see what the metal alone is worth. It runs on the LBMA silver price, the London benchmark set each working day. Useful before deciding whether something is worth sending to auction.
At auction, this weight
£180 to £1,150
Teapots, tankards and small salvers
Most British silver is sterling. A refiner pays a little under melt. The auction figures are examples of what objects of that weight have made, not a valuation of yours: maker, date and condition decide it, which is what scrap value or auction value covers.
How the calculator works, the twenty-year price chart, and when scrap is the right answer
Silver price
The LBMA benchmark in pounds per gram, per troy ounce and per kilo, what each silver standard is worth by weight, and a chart running back twenty years.
See the silver priceAlso useful
- The makers' register: the names that change the price, with the marks to look for. Paul Storr, Hester Bateman, Nathaniel Mills, Omar Ramsden, Georg Jensen and Liberty & Co.
- Recent sale prices: what things made at auction, with the estimate beforehand.
- The hallmarks guide: the tool's four steps explained with real pieces.