The Slab Lab LLC

01/22/2026

Silver broke a record high today and it's expected to keep trending upwards 🙌📈🤑💰💲⬆️

️🧪 If you've been stacking or have been thinking about starting, we have a massive variety of Constitutional 90% (junk) silver and .999 fine silver options.

🧪 Check out some of the things I dug out today 🤑...
... This doesn't even scrape the surface so stay tuned for more inventory updates and reach out to us if there is anything specific you're looking for ☎️📩👀🔎

📢⚠️Prices in these photos may not be accurate. Daily silver spot prices flucuate by the second, driven by investment supply and demand and other factors. Please contact us to confirm the asking price of any of these items.

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409 S Main Street
Princeton, IL 61356
815-719-3985

01/14/2026

Hi Everyone! I'm sure most of you have heard about the recent surge in gold and silver prices, but in case you've been living under a rock 🎸🤘, both precious metals hit record highs at the beginning of this month ⁉️😱🏆.

We started investing in gold and silver over six years ago; at that time, silver was under $25/oz, and today it surpassed $86/oz!! 🥳 These graphs show how much our original investments have grown since 2020 🪙🌱📈.

This is an easy and fun way to start investing for yourself and/or your kids. Visit the shop today to enhance your collection or investment portfolio! We're here to help and have something for every price point.

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815-719-3985
409 S Main Street
Princeton, IL 61356

01/10/2026

Happy Saturday Facebook Friends!! 😀

Come in today and be the first to get your hands on some of the new items we put out this week 🤩🙌🛍️

🧪 We spent the day at the Tumbleson Coin Auction last weekend bidding on lots we thought you all would enjoy and came home with a huge haul of items 📢🪧🚚🪙

💲Bronze Round of Princeton City Hall city🏦
💲John Deer Silver Rounds 🚜
💲A pure silver hand poured honey bee 🐝


🧪Our Pokemon and Sports sections have be replenished and are fully stocked 🙌

🧪 Don’t miss out on these Topps miniature card reprints in stand-up cases only 2 for $1 😱

We’re here until 6pm tonight❗️🏬👨🏻‍🔬

409 S Main Street
Princeton, IL 61356
815-719-3985

01/01/2026

Happy New Year 🥳

We hope your celebration was both safe and enjoyable as you rang in 2026 💃🏻🎩🥂🎉

🛍 Our business hours for today, 1/1/26, are 11am to 6pm so come in and see what's new at The Slab Lab 🥽🧪🔬👨‍🔬🏈⚾️🏅

📢 Please be advised that our shop will not have personnel on hand to facilitate in buying coin or precious metals from those looking to sell their items or collections. We plan to have staff available again tomorrow morning from 11a-1230p, or feel free to call ahead and make an appointment if you have interest in selling any of these types of items.

409 S Main Street
Princeton, IL 61356
815-719-3985

Hope to see you soon 👨‍🔬

12/24/2025

Merry Christmas Eve!! 🎅 🤶🎄

⚠️📢⚠️ Attention last minute gift shoppers or those of you who just never think they've bought enough no matter how early they started shopping 🎁🛍

⏳️ The hours are winding down but THE SLAB LAB is open until 4 o'clock today December 24, 2025

💲💲 Have you seen Gold and Silver prices?! They are surging‼️ 📈😱 Stop in and pick up a piece of bullion, a unique coin, or gold nuggets as a special christmas gift to either start or add to someone's collection 🎁

💧🔥⭐️ Its running low but we still have plenty of sealed Pokémon packs AND boxes available. Keep in mind that we also have single cards of your loved ones favorite Pokémon Characters, as well.

🏈🏀⚾️ Our Sports and Magic the Gathering sections are also booming 💥 whether its sealed product, raw or graded cards, or memorabilia!!

Only 4 hours left ‼️⏳️

409 S Main Street
Princeton, IL 61356
(815)719-3985

12/20/2025

☃️🔔🛷🎶🎵🎶

🔔🔔 Just 5 more days!!😱

🎅🏻 Santa himself was hard at work this week getting the coin cases full of coins, bills, silver & gold and much more 💰💵

🧝🧝‍♀️ While the elves were busy getting the shelves stocked with sports cards, pokemon & memorabilia 🎁🎁🎁

🤑 Take a look at some of our newly stocked items ….

🕕 We are here until 6pm 🛍️🏬

12/17/2025

Happy Hump Day Facebook Friends🐫👋😃

Only 6 more days to shop The Slab Lab before Christmas is here ‼️😱

We have several new items out that would make great gifts for kids, loved ones, sports fans, coin collectors, and more 🎁⚽️⛹️‍♂️🏈💰

Take a look at these giftable items that we have out and ready for purchase 👀🤑

🎁 1/4 oz .999 pure silver stackable legos (sold separately) $25 each

🎁 1/10 oz pure .999 silver pokemon pokeball. Perfect for starting or adding to a kids collections

🎁 1 oz .999 pure silver painted Fender Guitar

🎁 Upper Deck Choice Michael Jordan Finest Shot collectors tube - $70

🎁 Michael Jordan Maximum Air - $25

🎁 Michael Jordan Hot Wheels RR- $30

🎁 Chicago Bulls Die Cast Metal Bank - $20

🎁 Pokémon Ultra Premium Collection - $185 ONLY 1 LEFT ‼️

🎁 24k gold plated notes - $5 each
** The pokemon notes went fast! These are perfect for stocking stuffers or small gifts and kids love them! What’s pictured is all we have left.

💥💥Everything we have is in limited stock so hurry in and get these items while you can 🏎️💨🏁🛍️

12/16/2025

Hey everyone👋😃Hope you all enjoyed your weekend and were able to keep warm 🔥during those bitter cold temperatures🥶❄️☃️

With Christmas 🎄and New Years 🥂🍾 quickly approaching we wanted to share a couple of things 📣📣📋

❄️ Holiday hours will be:
🧑🏻‍🎄Christmas Eve - 10-4
🎅🏻Christmas Day - CLOSED
🍾New Years Eve - 11-6
🥂New Years Day - 11-6

❄️ Check out these “Merry Christmas” & “Pokémon” 24 karat gold-plated collectable bank notes 💰🤑💵✨. They are 100 milligrams of .999 24k gold, protected between layers of polyester film and are only $5 each‼️ Perfect for stocking stuffers or a Christmas gift 🎁🎄.

❄️ Be sure to stop in and grab a gift card for any of your last minute gifting needs ⏳🎁💰.

❄️ Check our page tomorrow to see the winners announced from last weeks raffle 🎟️🎥📣

❄️ Lastly, thank you so much for all of your continued support over the last 10 days. It has been so nice to hear all of the kind words and supportive comments from our customers as they enter the shop 🙏🏻😊🥳🎉

We have A LOT more inventory that we are trying hard to get out on the shelves. There are new items daily so please keep stopping in to seeing what’s new or just to say “hi” 👋🙋🏻‍♂️🙋🏻‍♀️. We love seeing you guys❣️❣️

12/12/2025

Only 2 days left to get your tickets for the raffle!
Come on down to The Slab Lab today or Saturday.
Winners will be drawn on Tuesday Dec 16th
(All proceeds will be donated)

12/11/2025

📢📢GIFT CARDS ARE HERE 💰🎁🎅🎄🛍️

Don’t forget to stop buy The Slab Lab and pickup gift cards for your family, friends, coworkers, white elephant, and stocking stuffers ‼️

409 S. Main Street
Princeton, IL 61356
(815)719-3985

🏬 **OPEN TUES - SAT from 11-6**

12/10/2025

Quick Update!!

If you are interested in SELLING or TRADING the following:
SPORTS CARDS
COINS
GOLD & SILVER
JEWELRY

Please reach out to the shop either by text, facebook messenger or by calling (815)719-3985 so that we can be sure to have the proper staff available to accommodate your needs, as we navigate the beginning stages of this new venture.

At this time we plan to have our owner, Chris, available by appointment during or outside of our normal business hours, and present at the shop Tuesday-Friday from 11:00am-12:30pm and 11:00am-6:00pm on Saturday to handle any transactions that may require his input or expertise.

(Any dates we know in advance that Chris will not be here will be listed in the pinned post)

We deeply apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Thank you for your support!!

Send a message to learn more

12/10/2025

📣📣 The Slab Lab will be closing early today, Wednesday, December 10, 2025 📣📣

We will be here until 5:30pm tonight and resume normal business hours tomorrow, Thursday, December 11, 2025 - 11a-6p.