Questions of metallurgical metaphysics come up easily in conversation with the knife lovers at Northside Cutlery, a kitchen supply and sharpening shop in the North Center neighborhood founded by ...

With no refunds and no guarantees at estate sales there’s no going back, so spend unwisely and you could come to regret it.

This week saw significant releases from some mainstay brands like Buck and Leatherman, as well as more under-the-radar EDC ...

The daily bar chart for May silver futures (SIK25) shows that prices are trending up and have just hit a 4.5-month high. See, too, at the bottom of the chart that the moving average convergence ...

I asked Piper and other experts for their best tips to stop buying stuff you don’t need. Make purchasing less convenient. Shopping has become a “frictionless experience,” Piper said ...

Investors can buy 99.9% pure silver bars ranging in weight from 1 ounce to 100 ounces or bullion coins such as the 1-ounce American Eagles produced by the U.S. Mint. Investors can also buy so ...

For most of the 1970s you would have needed to sell 30 to 40 ounces of silver to buy one of gold. Today it would be more like 90. Speculators have been burned by the devil’s metal, too.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have become something of an auction junkie, and I am surprised at how often I see incomplete sets of sterling flatware for ... with “the good silver” mix utensil designs ...