This is a bittersweet find for me and, while it isn't a "whole lotta" gold, I am super happy to have found it. The following link was made by my hunting partner when he found a 32nd Degree Mason pendant about 5 years ago. https://www.findmall.com/read.php?19,1897802,1897802#msg-1897802. I wasn't with him on that hunt, but he called me right after he found it and it took a good 5 minutes for me to understand what it was he was trying to tell me. He stuttered a bit as it was, but the excitement he had at that time made it practically impossible to understand him. He told me "you've got to see this thing . . . you just have to see it"! So, he brought it by on his way home that day and once he dropped it my hand, I got just as excited as he did when he found it. Once we both calmed down, we started really taking a close look at and were able to determine where it had broken away from whatever it was that it was attached to.
Bruce passed away last June and while I still do enjoy detecting, I've come close to quitting a couple of times because it just isn't the same without him. He always found way more than I did and, at times, it made me a little jealous but I still enjoyed being there and sharing his excitement when he made a good one.
He and I hunted that spot a few times together and I've hunted it a handful of times since he passed and I never found anything there worth a hoot. Well, today I decided to head there again and try my luck with a new shooter. I decided to start around the area where he showed me that he found the pendant and "lo and behold" lookie what I found maybe three feet from where he found that pendant! I'm pretty sure that only part that is solid gold is the loop that is hinged to a tab that broke away from the pendant. That part is 14k. The rest of it appears to be plated. Like I said, not much gold, but DAMN glad to have it.
Thanks for the memories Bruce!
Bruce passed away last June and while I still do enjoy detecting, I've come close to quitting a couple of times because it just isn't the same without him. He always found way more than I did and, at times, it made me a little jealous but I still enjoyed being there and sharing his excitement when he made a good one.
He and I hunted that spot a few times together and I've hunted it a handful of times since he passed and I never found anything there worth a hoot. Well, today I decided to head there again and try my luck with a new shooter. I decided to start around the area where he showed me that he found the pendant and "lo and behold" lookie what I found maybe three feet from where he found that pendant! I'm pretty sure that only part that is solid gold is the loop that is hinged to a tab that broke away from the pendant. That part is 14k. The rest of it appears to be plated. Like I said, not much gold, but DAMN glad to have it.
Thanks for the memories Bruce!
