For Serious PM lovers

[Gold Rush]

Was a little bored tonight, so I decided to surf the web for amazing items made out of PM's..the eagle below is 11" high and weighs 2,600 grams and the Cobra is 9 1/2" high and weighs 1,700 grams..feel free to add if you want

[newmisty]

Wow, never would have guessed those were 999. Cool pieces.

[Skirnir]

Imagine instead of bars, we had statuettes with weight and finesse printed upon them. That would certainly make bullion more interesting.

[Silver Art]

That is a different kind of silver artwork that I can appreciate.

[Kingfisher]

Pretty hard to stack though.

[97guns]

the old man would love that stuff, he would probably pay 2X spot

[gliddenralston]

The eagles alright, But I hate snakes even silver ones.

[cpthnsolo]

the old man would love that stuff, he would probably pay 2X spot

I would pay 2x spot for that stuff without hesitation. I've priced high-end silver before and most of the cool stuff retails for ten times spot or much more. When I was in Milan this past summer I walked into a store that specialized in fancy sterling items and the prices on everything were astronomical. I could have spent all day in that store staring at the treasure, but the wife was nagging me to keep moving .

[Gold Rush]

A few others!

[Gold Rush]

I would pay 2x spot for that stuff without hesitation. I've priced high-end silver before and most of the cool stuff retails for ten times spot or much more. When I was in Milan this past summer I walked into a store that specialized in fancy sterling items and the prices on everything were astronomical. I could have spent all day in that store staring at the treasure, but the wife was nagging me to keep moving .

I became really interested in item's like this about 7-8 years ago, when I saw a solid sterling silver tiger that was being sold..it had a weight of something like 15 or 20 pounds of pure silver.. it was like 2-3 ft long and 2 ft high..I have been trying to find the picture of it on the the internet..but so far no luck..I'm going to keep searching to see if I can find one of it...never know..this might be my next area of collecting..will need to buy a bigger boat though!

[Gold Rush]

Not a silver lover..check this one out http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=...E533FF1216AE1D almost $400,000 states item is no longer available

[Silver Art]

Not a silver lover..check this one out http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=...E533FF1216AE1D almost $400,000 states item is no longer available

I never thought that "gold art" could look so sexy and attractive. Even if it was available for sale, I could not afford it since I am a poor man. That means that I will just have to settle with looking at/fondling some of my cheap 1-oz silver art porn bars that I bought at past coin shows.

[Gold Rush]

Who says you can’t take it with you? Art Funeral Italy whipped up a one-of-a-kind casket made of 24-karat gold and displayed it at the 2010 Verona Luxury and Yacht Show. If the casket itself isn’t odd enough, it also comes with a gold-plated touch screen cell phone that’s meant to accompany the dearly departed. Total price $400,000

[Gcubed]

http://www.slate.com/slideshows/spor...rc=msn_gallery

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland...logical_Museum

[whiskey tango foxtrot]

Who says you can't get screwed buying PM's!

[platinumdude]

I think that is one silver piece that art wouldn't want to fondle.

[Gold Rush]

http://www.slate.com/slideshows/spor...rc=msn_gallery

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland...logical_Museum

.......... I did say feel free to post if you want..

[Gold Rush]

Sotheby’s employee poses for a photograph with an 18 carat gold sculpture of Kate Moss entitled “Microcosmos (Siren)” by Marc Quinn at Sotheby’s in London October 7, 2011. The piece is estimated to sell between 500,000 – 700,000 pounds ($777,000 – 1.1 million) when it is auctioned in London on October 13. (Reuters)

[Gold Rush]

Ganesha is one of the best-known and most widely worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon. Known as the Remover of Obstacles and the Lord of Beginnings he is easily recognized because of his elephant head.

This 22k solid gold Ganesha statue weighs 13.4 troy ounces and is 4.25 inches tall. Note that this statues also contains a “vahana” (a mount or vehicle) in the form of a rat at Ganesha’s feet.

[j-son]

not sure of the karat weight though



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[Gold Rush]

For you Walt Disney lovers....Walt Disney Studio Home Entertainment and jeweler Ginza Tanaka have made this gold Mickey Mouse statue as part of a campaign to promote the Blu-ray DVD release of “National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets.”

The 12-cm-tall, 1-kg statue, which is valued at 3.23 million yen ($31,000) will be displayed in Tanaka’s Ginza store through April 29, and then tour Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka and Sendai



Read more: Gold Mickey Mouse statue | LUXUO Luxury Blog http://www.luxuo.com/art/gold-mickey...#ixzz23Urqq6BH

[Gold Rush]

Make your every meal luxury! A Japanese jeweler is selling a 13-piece tableware set made entirely of pure gold for $1 million.

The set by Ginza Tanaka includes goblets, plates, chopsticks and cutlery, each engraved with a dragon, which symbolizes eternal youth and health. The items are available as single purchases, with spoons priced at 650,000 yen each and soup bowls going for 32 million yen.
LOVE THIS PART !
(The company said the tableware was aimed to appeal to Chinese customers. China’s increasing ranks of newly rich are buoying the luxury market despite the global economic slowdown.)

It is also an ancient Chinese tradition that those who eat from gold tableware will have eternal youth and life.

“Recently, there have been a lot of Chinese customers. When they visit our store, we try to appeal to them by showing we can also design Chinese-style tableware,” said Naoto Mizuki, general manager of the store’s marketing department.

Ginza Tanaka has offered in the past a range of goods made from gold, ranging from a gold bathtub to a gold bathing suit.

[newmisty]

I dunno, goldware doesn't have quite the same ring to it as silverware. I do think I could get used to it however.

[Gold Rush]

I don't know..I think I could get use to eating my CornFlakes outa that bowl she is holding

[newmisty]

I'd eat them too quick so that I could make faces at myself in the reflection at the bottom.

[Ragnarok]

"Chicago's real gold coast shines out of a small display in an Elmhurst museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stone. The diamond-studded, 18-karat-gold Castle Lizzadro at the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art (220 Cottage Hill) is a fantasy castle in the sense that it's only otherwise seen in novels that feature dragons and that if the castle were sold it would bring in a fantastic amount of money.

The 18-inch-wide, 14-inch-tall castle perched on an "ocean" of agate was commissioned in memory of the 15-year-old grandson of museum founder Joseph Lizzadro after he drowned in 1983. Goldsmith William Tolliday of Garrard & Co. (England's crown jeweler up until 2007) sculpted the piece, and it's the largest he would make, according to Dorothy Asher, director of the Lizzadro Museum. Tolliday combined yellow, white, and red gold for color and depth; the roofs are silver, and the windows are multifaceted, rectangular diamonds. The sculpture goes into intricate detail—visitors are sometimes asked how many tiny cannons they can find. "There's a lot of hidden crevices. There's a little cove, there's a little hoist," Asher said. "Adults and kids love it."

So what would this platonic ideal of an MTV's Cribs episode fetch at auction? "Now that the artist is deceased, you wouldn't know," said Asher, though it won't show up on the block any time soon—it means too much to the museum. "Not in my lifetime, at least," she said."

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago...nt?oid=5879171

R.

[Ragnarok]

Here's a dragon gold bar for ya!

From http://fofoa.blogspot.com/2011/10/oc...pen-forum.html
(more pics at link)

"块大金条出现在江苏南京新街口一家商场内，配备了两个保安持枪现场保护。据现场工作人员介绍，这块“金条 王”总重为99.999公斤，目前全国仅有一块，且纯度、重量都创下历史纪录。

Translation: Big gold bars appear within a shopping centre in Jiangsu Nanjing Xinjiekou, equipped with two guns for security protection. According to field staff, this "Bullion King" 99.999 kg total weight, at present only one, and purity, weight record.

(That’s one-tenth of a tonne, or 3,215 troy ounces)"



R.

[Gold Rush]

Ragnarok, Thanks for sharing those..I thought the castle was so cool, I wanted to find out more..I found a site that takes you on a small virtial tour of some of the items in the Elmhurst Museum..Really some amazing things..everything from a Ivory Last Supper, to cameos carved in Amethyst, a Jade bear..and Turquoise Asian Figures..and a rare Blue Jade Pagoda..Very Neat stuff!

[Ragnarok]

^^^ Hey... that looks like a portrait of Scorpio!

R.