:usaflag: It May Be Small, But It's Old And It's Gold!! :detecting:

[Cupajo]

4 Hours of water hunting until Old Mother Nature couldn't be ignored another moment (Incomming tide was getting too deep anyway!) and I had to stop digging.

Mr. Dual field, Diablo and this Old Hunter recovered 61 targets which I consider outstanding where I hunt!

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Usually I'm happy to recover 10 targets an hour!

Mostly keepers today for a change and plenty of them!!

Spotlight items are a Merc. a small silver ring and a 1931 Gold class ring! (The larger ring between the Merc and the small silver ring is junk!!)

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I'm pretty sure it's 14K based on the wear inside and out plus lack of serious tarnishing. (The hallmark is worn away.)

I'm certain the wear was not from being in the water, but was from being worn for many years before being lost.

Some of the schools in Connecticut had 14K class rings during this period.

It's been 43 hours of water hunting or close to it since I found my last gold ring.

GL&HH Friends,

CJ

 

[tomcatpl]

i knew it wouldn't be long before u find the shine

i found a small 14k earing last weekend so the dry spell starts again for both of us

 

[Furious T]

You've earned every good target CJ, through perseverence and good detecting (I could have said "hard work", but I dont think of detecting as work). Well done, that really is a nice old ring.

 

[Elton]

n/t

 

[lazyaussie]

nice old gold cupajo & I think after 43 hours in the water your due a few more old golds

 

[mudpuppy]

What a beauty! And, you have found enough lead weights to sink a skiff!
Mud

 

[Cupajo]

The little jewel is 10 years older than I and in lots better shape and increasing in value unlike myself (According to my wife of 45Years!!)!!

It weighs .21 Oz Troy/6.6Grams!

Thanks for your kind replies Friends,

CJ

 

[tomcatpl]

6.6GRAN must be the water weight

 

[John(Tx)]

Outstanding find, if it could only talk and say when it was lost, love this hobby.....HH John

 

[banditicey]

GREAT HUNT

GREAT FINDS

Beautiful Gold Ring

I found a 1933 Gold School Ring and it turned out to be 14K because it was old
and Gold was not what it is today

But it got tested by my jeweler because the mark was gone because the ring had been enlarged

Regards and HH

 

[deepseeker442]

it gold wtg

 

[Cupajo]

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Wow Again!!

I can't remember ever having this kind of response to a post!

Many thanks Friends, for your thoughtful replies!

After recovering 2/3 of the targets I moved to a part of the beach where I knew the sand had shifted around and created an edge that had large stones sticking out of sand with adjascent deep sand which got deeper as I moved away from that edge .

The varying depths along the edge had deep targets accessable here and there. The silver dimes I found over the last few hunts came from there and yesterday the gold!!

Guess where I'll be hunting today if things haven't changed!

GL&HH Fellow Hunters,

CJ

 

[houndawgg]

4 Hours of water hunting until Old Mother Nature couldn't be ignored another moment (Incomming tide was getting too deep anyway!) and I had to stop digging.
GL&HH Friends,
CJ

Man, that's sweet