Are you Sitting Down? My best jewelry Find in 38 Years!

Buried Crap NJ

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I have been sitting on this post for a few hunts. I have shared this with a few here.I recovered this baby out of a 5 ft cut!
So how long it was there days weeks years? I made an effort and searched Lost and
Found ads. I checked with the head life guard (without tipping my hat) for any lost valuables,
only rings and smaller stuff have been reported this season.

100 Grams of White Gold and Diamonds 3.53 onces!
14k 26in White Gold Chain (67.7g)
18k White Gold Pendant (32.3g) 5 1/2 tcw of Diamonds
MSRP $16000.00
An Online Jeweler Has the chain at 3100 and the pendant at 5200
Here's how it unfolded.
I retrieved a phone message about some beach cuts forming late Wednesday night. The earliest I could get
out was 7pm Thursday for a low at 942pm. What I found was a 3 1/2 foot cut. My plan was to slowly
hunting towards the more populated beach.Well my plan went out to lunch when another hunter entered in behind me.
We knew each other and our intentions.But I just could not pass up targets. So I stuck to my plan and I waved him on
through, and he just took off! He had a good hour plus hunting the targeted area before I even got within a 1/2 mile
of him. He had been scooting (running) up and down the beach and I was hunting my
ever so slow pace. Up and back from what was now a 5ft cut. This cut must have happened
very quickly as it was voided of trampling feet! By this time I had about 40 coins.
My fellow hunter was now knee deep in the water (God bless him). Where did he think all that sand went?
We passed several times. I had finally figured out the line
of targets was 12 ft from the cut. I shorten my grid. He move further south to another beach.
It was shortly after that I got one of those burps (Excalibur) There were signs of shells and
pebbles from his recent recovery,and foot prints. It had sounded like a bottle top but trash wasn't being found!
I was not sure where it came from. (And neither did the Excal) I stopped and searched with
no responce. I ran the scoop over the coil to regain the tone.But then there was no mistaken that low tone.
I rescanned the target several times, each pass sounded even better.
I made sure of a good PP and my first scoop produce a good 10 inches of solid packed sand and nothing else.
My second one as I was pulling the T-Rex scoop out I saw something get pulled out of the scoop.
In what was a split second I thought that was odd,who did that and I think that was the target.
Followed by its a chain still in the sand. I reached in the now deep hole and held
the cross and 6 inches of chain and tugged a bit but it tugged back.
I started to dig with my hand and the chain was 20 inches straight down.
It took a few hand fulls and the chain slid out. My first thoughts were wow this is heavy but silver or
SS and not to get my hopes up.I tried to look for marks but the sea mist had my glasses fogged.
I placed it in my neck pouch and continued hunting. Ya right, back out it came for another look!
This proved silly. The other hunter came back by and stopped to say the other beach had no cut and
was surpriced to the lack of targets with the cut he was heading back. (total coins for me 113)
I hunted 3 more hours. In the car there was just no way my glasses were going to cooperate.
I dove down the road holding and looking at each traffic light. I finally noticed three safety locks and
just knew then they don't do this to SS or silver. Funny thing was I weight it first when
I got home,then looked for any marks. The chain was clearly marked 14k and I did an acid test on both.
It wasn't till I looked up the pieces online did I realized that the cross only came in 18k so a new acid test
confirmed this.
BCNJ
 

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kiana7

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I'm so happy for you,but sad for the person who lost it,b/c it was a lot of $$$,I'm voting this for a Banner:weee::blob10::blob7::blob3::blob5::blob6::blob9::blob8::blob1:
 

nsdq

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i need to go change my shorts now,,,,,, holy #########$#%$^%$^%*&&&^&&* what a find
 

Surfview

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The Sapranos whacked a guy off the Jersey coast. I remember he was wearing a necklace like that. :-)
 

leprechaun

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Definetly a find of a lifetime, I vote BANNER also.:icon_thumleft:. Does kinda looks like mr.T material.
 

Native Floridian

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BANNER BANNER BANNER BANNER BANNER BANNER


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Buried Crap NJ

Buried Crap NJ

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Primary Interest:
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You are going to hate me but I know how you can find the owner. Jeweler has a makers mark and that mark is specific something this large and expensive is a commissioned piece the maker can be located and you can ask who purchased it if they will not give you that information then you tried and live large with your grand find. It could have been insured too and somebody probably filed a claim for this.

No I am not going to hate you for that.
First off when you are in this hobby you must early on chose your level of ethics.
I have done just that and have stuck to it. I have many returns, that could be returned!
I look to see if it been reported lost in as many venues as I can, and it ends at
that point. Now let me see if I can answer some of those points.
Marker Marks are really old school and went out with the bench jeweler, while there are some single piece type jewelry being
made these are one of them. Both these pieces are factory production runs stamped out by the thousands. The chain comes on a large
roll and lopped off and ends put on them. Some larger jewelers stores may have a stamp (marks) placed on them. The cross while
spectacular is a readily available off the shelf, and I can add is this one is the smallest one in this type.Larger ones come in at 10&20 carrots!
Its mark was well worn from the chains movement and not ledgable, possibly from rolling around the in the sand!
They were not hand made commissioned pieces.
Your probally correct in that it was insured most home owners minimun is 10 grand,and for a few bucks more you can up it to 50 grand!
As I posted it was found in a 5ft cut it could have been there for years and there's little way to find the owner. There are lots of
hunters that enjoy the detective work to get the two back together, I am not one of them. While its a real shame it was lost, it will go as
one of those life lessons we all have had to learn. And without depositors we would not have a hobby!
Good luck out there hunting!
BCNJ
 

SusanMN

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Jun 1, 2007
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You do understand that you are going to have to change your Tnet screen name - Buried Crap and one Spectacular Necklace - is WAY to long for a screen name.
 

general

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A real beauty of a find.It would look great on anyone's neck. Congrats.
 

Smoogle

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sitting down, but still floored ........................ sicco !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

N.J.THer

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BCNJ,
Great find and my banner vote is in. If I was closer to the shore I would be right out there with you. Good luck on future hunts.
NJ
 

Beach Papa

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Aquasound (custom made)
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Looks Like a Banner find to me!!!! Wow!!! For those who are new at metal detecting. All days don't go quite this well. My last hunt was 6 hours long at two different beaches and produced $2.89 in change, 4 pair of sunglasses, and 6 junk earrings, but an assortment of bottle caps, pull tabs, bobby pins, fish hooks, one junk kids ring, nuts and bolts and can slaw (no gold and no silver). This is a dream find, one that most of us will not match in our lifetime.
 

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Buried Crap NJ

Buried Crap NJ

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Dec 5, 2009
654
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New Jersey
Detector(s) used
CTX 3030, Minelab Excalibur II, Minelab GT,Compass XP-Pro,Fischer 1210X
Primary Interest:
Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
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BANNER BANNER BANNER BANNER BANNER BANNER


Banner Banner Banner

Tom do think this is worthy of banner?
Me too, I am waiting!
BCNJ
 

the signman

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Jul 26, 2012
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wow, what a fantastic discovery, its beautiful, i am so envious i have spat my dummy out and thrown all my toys out of the pram, ah,ah,:tongue3:
 

Chuffs

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Jul 1, 2012
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Absolutely Awesome Find.... Congrats....
CH
 

chrisplay2004

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Fisher F2 with 4" & 8" Coil, and F-Point Pinpointer, Whites Eagle II, Bounty Hunter Fortune Hunter, Modified VLF WaterDetector
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I still keep coming back to look at it and still keep checking the Banner.
I don't know if I can vote Banner again...but here it goes...
Tom...Banner or not?
 

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