Who is behind Silver Plate Canada
Silver Plate Canada is a mail-in buying service for silverplate, sterling and estate metals, run from a working metals recycling facility in Mississauga, Ontario. We are new as a brand, and we are fine saying so. Trust here should be earned with published rates and itemized receipts, not bought with slogans.
A letter from the owner
We have spent decades recovering metal: sorting it, testing it, and moving it into the legitimate refining stream. XRF analyzers, calibrated scales, camera protocols and settlement paperwork are our normal working day.
We started Silver Plate Canada because we kept seeing two things. First, families are told their silverplate chest is worth nothing, when the truth is that many buyers will not take it. Second, it is hard for a family to know whether an offer for their silver is fair. Both problems have the same fix: publish real rates, process every parcel on camera, and put every dollar on an itemized receipt.
That is the whole idea. Our silverplate prices are on the site in plain flat dollars, by the pound, starting at $10.50 per pound for flatware. Sterling and gold are paid at live rates that follow the metal market. Every parcel is opened on video. Every payment comes with an itemized receipt. And every price we publish is one we honour on every parcel.
If another Canadian buyer gives you a higher written offer for the same items, tell us before you send. We will match it or tell you to take theirs.
The Owner
Silver Plate Canada
The facility
Silver Plate Canada parcels are received and processed at our metals recycling facility in Mississauga, Ontario. The same room handles commercial metal streams every week: calibrated scales, professional XRF analysis, segregated storage, and continuous video coverage from parcel opening to weighing. Your flatware chest is handled with the same discipline as a commercial refining lot, because it goes through the same hands and the same cameras.
Doing it properly
- A full purchase register. Every purchase is recorded: item descriptions, photos, weights, prices, dates, and where it was received.
- A hold before melting. Purchased items are held, not melted, for a waiting period after purchase. Anything quoted to you in writing is never processed before you approve the quote.
- Anti-money-laundering compliance. Silver Plate Canada operates a full anti-money-laundering compliance program as a dealer in precious metals under Canada's PCMLTFA, including photo ID from every seller and further identity checks whenever a transaction raises a red flag.
- Recorded payments only. Interac e-Transfer for anything posted to us. Cash only in person at our Mississauga counter, signed for against your itemized receipt. No cheques, PayPal, cards or crypto.
What we are not
- We are not appraisers. We are a metal buyer paying published rates, and your receipt documents a purchase.
- We are not a pawn shop. No loans, no pledges, nothing to redeem.
- We are not a "cash for gold" postcard operation. That model died publicly of its own payout practices, and its habits are the opposite of everything on this page.
The legal bit
GST/HST number: 874255896RT0001. Estate professionals and dealers can ask about trade terms: contact@silverplatecanada.ca, or call (416) 799-7528.