GeorgeinSC
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Had an early dental appointment yesterday for a routine cleaning . They hygienist scratched around a little and the Periodontist took a look and pronounced what teeth I have left to be good.
Got home and the Weather Guesser was promising that the temps would get up some where between 65 and 70. I thought that I heard my Excal talking about a trip to the beach. So we headed there and got on the beach at 11am. Low tide was scheduled for 12:01.
After careful consideration I thought of a spot that I knew the ocean had washed all the soft sand away and there was a nice area of hard pack. So the Excal and I started looking to see what we could rescue.
Dug up a real nice mens wedding band. Initially could not tell if it was stainless steel or Tungsten. Knew it was not gold or silver.
Then I dug up a "Silver" colored ring that may or may not be silver. It has markings that do not mean anything to me. It does however ring up a solid 180 on the Sovereign Gt.
After digging up a few pieces of junk jewelry and the occasional dime to go along with the worthless zinc clumps I had a nice low Nickel tone. It didnt sound exactly like a nickel and it was not as bad as aluminum foil. So I took a scoop. Shook it gently and thought that looks like gold.
Stepped over to a tidal pool and washed the sand and shells out of the scoop. Had a gold colored chain with charm that was tied in one gigantic knot. It took me quite a few minutes to untangle it. Then I started searching for a hallmark. Finally locate one and it was very small. I thought that it was 10K. Later I looked again with the sun in the correct angle and found that I had a 25 inch long chain with pendant that was 14K. Magnifying class confirmed that it is 14K when I got home.
Tide returned to wash the area I was working so I hit the wet/dry sand dividing line and dug up $4.80 in clad. The wind came up and it was coming off a 55 degree ocean. I was not wearing a jacket so I had to leave.
The chain and pendant weigh 9.3 grams. Sure did make my Day.
Got home and the Weather Guesser was promising that the temps would get up some where between 65 and 70. I thought that I heard my Excal talking about a trip to the beach. So we headed there and got on the beach at 11am. Low tide was scheduled for 12:01.
After careful consideration I thought of a spot that I knew the ocean had washed all the soft sand away and there was a nice area of hard pack. So the Excal and I started looking to see what we could rescue.
Dug up a real nice mens wedding band. Initially could not tell if it was stainless steel or Tungsten. Knew it was not gold or silver.
Then I dug up a "Silver" colored ring that may or may not be silver. It has markings that do not mean anything to me. It does however ring up a solid 180 on the Sovereign Gt.
After digging up a few pieces of junk jewelry and the occasional dime to go along with the worthless zinc clumps I had a nice low Nickel tone. It didnt sound exactly like a nickel and it was not as bad as aluminum foil. So I took a scoop. Shook it gently and thought that looks like gold.
Stepped over to a tidal pool and washed the sand and shells out of the scoop. Had a gold colored chain with charm that was tied in one gigantic knot. It took me quite a few minutes to untangle it. Then I started searching for a hallmark. Finally locate one and it was very small. I thought that it was 10K. Later I looked again with the sun in the correct angle and found that I had a 25 inch long chain with pendant that was 14K. Magnifying class confirmed that it is 14K when I got home.
Tide returned to wash the area I was working so I hit the wet/dry sand dividing line and dug up $4.80 in clad. The wind came up and it was coming off a 55 degree ocean. I was not wearing a jacket so I had to leave.
The chain and pendant weigh 9.3 grams. Sure did make my Day.
! Nice weather too ... !