Originally Posted by
Sam Pelican
Most of the frames I have are gold filled, old Shuron, B&L, Artcraft, and 3 piece mounts from as early as the forties probably. They are stamped 1/10K and 1/12K gold filled. Our Lions club used to have a source that we would send broken frames even with the lenses and nose pads still in them to somewhere out East. We would ship several large boxes, maybe 100# to them. We sent everything so a lot of the frames probably didn't have any gold them. We would often get checks around $500 for the precious metals in the frames. That was when gold was much less than today. We cannot find any of those places now. I would think even a small amount of gold filled would have some value today. I will check with some pawn shop and coin dealers and see if they have any interest.
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