Holy Bling, Batman! Take a look at THIS!

[Golden Silver]

Having recuperated from Saturday's outing in Staten Island and the coming weather looking good only for indoor activities, I headed out to the park. Even though the temperature was only 54 it turned out to be a beautiful day. Picking up a quarter here, a dime there, I walked along approached by curious kids who didn't hang around and by also curious adults. I reached the end of the park and was ready to head home when I decided to do a tree with bare ground all around it before I called it quits. But first I headed up a slight incline which I was not going to bother with but did.

The detector didn't find it, my eyes did. A curious sight as I wasn't sure what I was looking at but it looked golden and I thought it might be a whole or part of an earring. Whew! When I grabbed it and pulled it from the earth (it was starting to be held by the vegetation) I couldn't make out what it was but it had to be astounding at the size and weight. I didn't want to draw attention so I did remove a little bit of the dirt and saw what it was. Into the goody bag it went. After I left the park I saw a memorial fountain and it had water from the recent rains. Wanting to see more detail I dunked the crucifix and moved it around hoping the caked-in dirt would loosen. Some of it did but so did the ring where the chain would have held the crucifix. It separated into the two pieces it was constructed of since I could see the solder joint. When I picked up the crucifix out of the water I noticed the missing ring and found the two pieces in the water. The slim or back piece of the ring is where the 10K is found (last photo).

At home I cleaned it under tap water and a toothbrush and now you can see unbelievable 10K gold bling! It weighs a clean one ounce. Can anyone tell me how much one ounce of 10Karat gold is worth?

Bling on the photos!

Oh, yeah, I also found 8 quarters, 5 dimes and some cents.

Golden Silver

 

[GRAY GHOST]

hi goldensilver,your 10k gold, at 976.00 an oz. for gold, is worth 13.06 per gram. weigh the piece in grams, then multiply it with the 13.06, and you'll have your total value. i think 10k is .421 gold. great find, and hh,

 

[possum]

That is absolutely beautiful. You probably paid for your detector on that trip.

 

[beavertail]

That's a beatiful cross, keep it up, hh

 

[BH-LandStar]

Very Cool cross...There are conversion calculators you can find on the net...Just do a Google search for metric Conversion Calculator or weight conversion calculator....


HH,

BH-LandStar

 

[dobbie]

i absolutley LOVE IT....

 

[Golden Silver]

Here is an update on this object. Because the jump ring, which is where the chain slips through to hold the item (and separated into the two small pieces you see in the photos), is marked 10K I thought the whole was 10K. But I took it to a local jeweler who gave it the acid test with three acids: 10K, 14K, 18K. It passed the 10K and 14K but not the 18K so the jeweler established that it was 14K. At today's gold price it's worth $499.

But it's not the gold content that is important here. Although it goes without saying that such a nice amount is always welcomed. But it's the goldsmith's unbelieveable skill which produced this work of art (not from a religious POV) that's in the spotlight. This thing should be in a museum!

Yes, it definitely paid for my Land Star which allows me to consider another high tech detector and I'm looking but the LS is going to be with me for a while longer especially if I'm able to find that extension cable that'll allow me to hip-mount it as the display will then be in an optimum angle right by my side.

 

[dobbie]

that is still very awesome..even more so now. WTG

 

[Golden Silver]

[quote BH-LandStar]Very Cool cross...There are conversion calculators you can find on the net...Just do a Google search for metric Conversion Calculator or weight conversion calculator....


HH,

BH-LandStar[/quote]
Thanks, BH-LS. I got the conversion calculator at another forum. Here's the URL: http://dendritics.com/scales/metal-calc.asp?WeightU=1&Units=ozt&Alloy=14K&PrOzt=&CurrencyN=USD&Markup=0

 

[Golden Silver]

Another nice surprise. Today I went to Canal Street, famous street in Manhattan (NYC) mostly for tons of counterfeit merchandise, to see about a cable matter and to see if I could find a similar object as the one I found. There's more gold on Canal Street than there is in Fort Knox! If you turned on your metal detector down there it wouldn't stop giving low signals. There are many jewelry shops and I wasn't going to go into every one but chose one just for the hell of it. As soon as you walk the clerks behind the counter "pounce" on you so I asked for specifics mentioning a 3" high one. I was shown an almost identical copy of my find except that theirs was crude compared to the art work I found. I don't know if theirs was a full ounce but their asking price was $600. Meaning that if they were selling mine I'm sure the price would have been closer to $800 and possibly more. The one thing that was cleared for me was, aside from finding a similar object, is that what I found is definitely not one of a kind but seems to be a cast object with a master goldsmith adding the final touches that puts mine in a different category from what I was shown.