It was a very silver sort of day today. I did an inspection of my coil cover and found that the edge of the cover has worn through so I pulled it off and took it for a hunt to scuff it up a little so I can apply epoxy to it. I would prefer to swap out the cover but I don't have one and the shipping to Bermuda for just a cover is cost prohibitive. I'll apply the epoxy after a few hunts.
The Excal performed beautifully without a cover and I found some sweet silver loot today off of my beach. I didn't take the camera with me today because you've all seen my beach too many times already. It was a beautiful day and the temperatures are starting to warm up again (made it into the mid 60's F).
The gales blowing in from the north over the past few weeks have really stirred things up but I was disappointed in the mine which is still sanded in, the lane was another story. A lot of sand has been pushed up onto the beach and there is only a foot of sand before you hit the mangrove mud so there were some nice older finds to be had. I found my first silver war nickel today 1945 'P'.
The last hour of my three hour hunt was spent in the lane and it provided a very nice Tiffany & Co. .925 ring which could be a match for the bracelet that Mr. B found a few weeks ago. I also picked up a silver bangle but it is badly corroded so only scrap silver will be left by the time I clean it. The bonus for the day came when I came home to clean my finds and discovered that the cross I found on Friday is actually .925, excellent. I'm sure glad I didn't dump that one in the scrap pile.
Silver cross, T&Co. .925 Ring and 1945 Silver War Nickel
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Tiffany & Co. .925 Ring (I really like these guys - should have sent them a Xmas card for all the loot they make for me)
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The NUT
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Interesting bunch of stuff in the nut including 5 brass key tags for Cambridge Beaches Resort, an iron ship's spike, the Jewett brass plaque and a piece of copper plumbing (never did find the sink that goes with it)
Cheers All and Good Hunting,
BDA
The Excal performed beautifully without a cover and I found some sweet silver loot today off of my beach. I didn't take the camera with me today because you've all seen my beach too many times already. It was a beautiful day and the temperatures are starting to warm up again (made it into the mid 60's F).
The gales blowing in from the north over the past few weeks have really stirred things up but I was disappointed in the mine which is still sanded in, the lane was another story. A lot of sand has been pushed up onto the beach and there is only a foot of sand before you hit the mangrove mud so there were some nice older finds to be had. I found my first silver war nickel today 1945 'P'.
The last hour of my three hour hunt was spent in the lane and it provided a very nice Tiffany & Co. .925 ring which could be a match for the bracelet that Mr. B found a few weeks ago. I also picked up a silver bangle but it is badly corroded so only scrap silver will be left by the time I clean it. The bonus for the day came when I came home to clean my finds and discovered that the cross I found on Friday is actually .925, excellent. I'm sure glad I didn't dump that one in the scrap pile.Silver cross, T&Co. .925 Ring and 1945 Silver War Nickel
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Tiffany & Co. .925 Ring (I really like these guys - should have sent them a Xmas card for all the loot they make for me)
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The NUT
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Interesting bunch of stuff in the nut including 5 brass key tags for Cambridge Beaches Resort, an iron ship's spike, the Jewett brass plaque and a piece of copper plumbing (never did find the sink that goes with it)
Cheers All and Good Hunting,
BDA
