What we buy
If it is gold, silver, platinum or palladium, we want to see it.
You do not need to know what you have. That is our job. Most of what comes through our door arrives in a jewelry box, an envelope, or a shoebox — and the owner has no idea what any of it is worth.
Rings, chains, bracelets, earrings, pendants. Broken, tangled, missing stones, single earrings — all of it still has value.
Two of the most commonly thrown-away sources of real gold.
Full sets or loose pieces. Trays, bowls, candlesticks, tea services.
Pre-1965 U.S. dimes, quarters, halves. Morgan and Peace dollars. Foreign silver.
U.S. and foreign. Eagles, Krugerrands, Maple Leafs, Sovereigns, pre-1933 U.S. gold.
Bars and rounds in any size, any mint, gold or silver.
Jewelry, bullion, and industrial forms.
Loose or mounted. We evaluate the stone and the metal separately.
Gold cases, and running mechanical pieces from recognized makers.
Estates, inheritances, and accumulations built over decades.
No stamp is not a problem. That is exactly what the X-ray is for.
Older U.S. notes, silver certificates, obsolete banknotes.
Not sure if we buy it? Send us a photo by text and we will tell you straight — including when the answer is that it is not worth your trip.
Attorneys, executors, and CPAs
Estate and probate work.
We regularly work with estate attorneys, executors, trustees, and CPAs who need precious metals and jewelry valued and liquidated properly. We can provide itemized written documentation of everything purchased for estate accounting, and we can perform the evaluation on site when the assets should not be moved.
Dealers and trade
We also buy and trade dealer to dealer.
We maintain active wholesale relationships and trade regularly with other dealers on both sides of the market. If you are a dealer, jeweler, pawnbroker, estate liquidator, or auction house with volume to move, contact us directly.
We sell to the public at wholesale and we trade with dealers, but we do not publish inventory or take orders online. The case changes daily and bullion prices move every few seconds, so pricing and availability are handled live, by phone or in person. Approved dealers and desk members get a private line into the wholesale market.
Black House Gold
Live pricing for approved dealers.
For larger buyers, collectors building a position, and other dealers, we open the desk. You get a scheduled line into a live wholesale market, quotes refreshed in real time, and the ability to lock a price on the phone or sitting here with us while the market is open. You see exactly what we are paying. We add a small transaction fee on top of that, we tell you what it is before you agree to anything, and then the metal is yours. Nothing is hidden inside the price.
You trade with a person, live
Not a form and not a cart. Somebody from this office is on the call or in the room with you while the price is being set.
You see what we pay
The number on the screen is the number we are working from. Our fee sits on top of it in the open, quoted out loud, the same way we build an offer when we are buying from you.
Built for size
Set up for dealers, estate buyers, and anyone putting real money to work. There is no order too large for the channel behind it.
Delivery or pickup
Sealed and insured to your address, or take delivery here in person. Your call.
The only metal we sell at a discount is metal somebody brought in and sold to us over the counter. When that comes across the counter we pass the buy price along. Access is by approval, not by signup.
Size is not the problem
There is no ceiling here.
Silva Holdings has traded the wholesale market directly for the past three years, and Black House Gold and Silver operates under that same account. Our supply runs through a United States Mint Authorized Purchaser, one of a small number of firms in the country the Mint sells to directly. What that means in practice is that we are not limited to what is in the building.
Three years buying and selling in the wholesale market, and now that same access brought to the consumer market. If the number is large enough that you are wondering whether we can handle it, that is exactly the call to make.
If you want five hundred ounces of gold, we can price it and source it the same day against national inventory. It is not sitting in our case and we are not going to pretend it is. It is available to us at a moment’s notice, and it ships sealed and insured.
Bring us a collection, an estate, or a dealer lot. Whatever the size, we settle the whole thing, and we pay in the amounts the trade requires.
On a large order the price is locked the moment you confirm it and the trade is funded by wire. You are not exposed to the market between the handshake and the settlement.
Call us before you sell.
The worst outcome is finding out later that you left money on the table. A phone call costs you nothing, and we will tell you honestly whether it is worth your trip.