Tumbled Finds with a very cool Surprise!

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I've been 'experimenting' with tumbling various relics I've found this year. I've tried using more and less hot water, longer & shorter tumbling times, beach sand mixed with 3/4" polished aquarium gravel or rough gravel and backing soda ... this is my latest batch of 'tumbled finds'. Three of these relics came from the 'Martingale site' in Eastern Ontario and the 'horse bit ring' came from the site where I found all of the 'brass buckle shields'. The 'surprise' is that one of the finds that I thought was iron and was initially going to dis-guard following the hunt now turns out to be brass! It looks to me to be a relatively early (19thc) casting with a lot of detail on it.

These finds tumbled for 72hrs and I changed the solution every 6 - 12 hours, I think the metamorphosis is pretty amazing myself!

Let me know what you all think,
Dave

 

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Vinegar is great on pennies, but any clads that are in with them seem to get coated with what comes off the pennies. I would do the pennies by themselves with vinegar.

I have a heck of a time getting clads clean. Any advice?

Just sent you a PM deepseeker3!
Hope it helps,
Dave

 

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