Last couple hunts w/ Edge & CZ-70

[BarnacleBill]

using the small coils on each most of the time.

Lots of clad, bunch of 60's memorials and a 1943 nickel(green specks in center).
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For the next photo you need to put on your X-ray glasses, there are ten wheaties soaking in the ketchup.

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All sorts of relickee kind of stuff including the body of a pocket watch. And to the left of the watch a portion of a tiny toy revolver, appears to be made of lead.
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Last a 1908 dime, antique Hendryx lure, some early buttons and what appears to be some sort of Fob shaped like a modern lead sinker. That's what I thought it was till I cleaned it up a little bit. And an old Chevy key with the flying tire emblem.
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HH
BarnacleBill

 

[rvbvetter]

You keep this up. None of us will be able to ketchup with you. Very nice finds!! HH

 

[Darren(Va)]

n/t

 

[Bill Ladd]

n/t

 

[lurksalot]

a rubber bulb for a handle.

 

[Sanddigger]

n/t

 

[BarnacleBill]

and these wheaties have sand stuck in the corrosion, so great care is needed in removing it. I changed ketchup this AM and about half had revealed their dates. I brush them gently with a very soft child's tooth brush under a stream of water, then put the one's that need more time back into a fresh batch of ketchup. Overnight the ketchup around the coins turns a blackish/dark greenish color that just rinses away.

So far oldest date is a 1910 in this group.

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BarnacleBill

 

[BarnacleBill]

I was looking at that thing last night trying to figure out what the H$ll it was. And you hit it, there is a hole drilled or cast up from the right where the the stocks on a revolver would go, and coming out the front where the barrel is broken off, in front of the cylinder. The ring on the handle now makes perfect sense where the bulb would slip over.

Thanks, one less mystery in life I don't have to think about. The site I was working dates from around 1900 or slightly before, so I wonder if the toy dates from that far back?

Found a pic of one kind of like it:
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BarnacleBill

 

[Old California]

Nice crop of finds Bill,

Looks like you hit several sites each giving up some goodies, I'll never tried the ketchup cleaning process but will surely try it in the future.

I use a rock tumbler to clean most of my coins including old silver and copper coins even tumble some of the smaller relics, So far it works well.

Keep up the hunt and Congrats with the finds made with the fisher detectors, I'll soon have me a fisher too.
Paul (Ca)

 

[BarnacleBill]

Not all the pennies were left in for an equal amount of time, only what's needed to pull up the date, and I changed the Ketchup about every 12 hours. The process leaves a very dull dead finish.
Two 1910's were the oldest in the group.
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Here is a closeup of the typical corrosion I see, almost like layered lettuce with a flaky consistency and many times having embedded sand. But the stuff sticks like glue even though it looks like it would easily be scraped off with a fingernail. A couple times a year I do some batch tumbling on items I deem to be total culls.
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BarnacleBill

 

[Jackpine Savage]

a nice green patina over a green flaky crust. Most also noted that the embedded sand is hard on the teeth.

Aarghhh!

 

[K Wills]

Ya put fish aquiarium gravel in the tumbler along with a squirt of liquid dish washing soap and a squire of lemon juice and cover gravel and coins with water, let row about two hours and looks like pocket change afterwards. Keith