SweetCorn
Jr. Member
- Oct 2, 2016
- 76
- 183
- Detector(s) used
- Excal 2, Equinox 600
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Beach hunt today in Santa Cruz. This is the 3rd or 4th time I've been down there and every trip before has been somewhat disappointing. Today was better but not sure how much better as the big find is not marked. The beach definitely had less sand and the tide is out pretty good right now. The trash to treasure ratio wasn't bad, could certainly be worse.
I met a local hunter and she gave me lots of useful info. Be sure to take off the headphones and say hi to fellow MDers when you're out
You never know who you might meet or what you might learn.
Now to the goods....
The overall. Still finding plenty of pennies but only 30 today, not 50. There is a beat up bracelet in there, looks copper and there is a ring with an amazing crust formation attached to it. I'm not expecting much under that crust as the ring looks like a kids ring and also appears to be copper.
Here are a couple pics of the good looking ring I found. It weighs 7.9 g and as mentioned, I cannot find a mark in it. When I found it, it was dark and my initial impression was that it was a junker. It looked tarnished and didn't seem to weigh a whole lot. When I cleaned it off and looked at it indoors, it looked much better. It is a large men's ring. It fits over my thumb! What do you think? Based upon these pics, gold or junk??
Here is another pic of the ring and I included something interesting I found. This might be relic-ish. A quick search of this name, Helena Rubenstein shows that this is a makeup company. The end of the tube says "Red Cardinal" and I think it's a lipstick tube. Based upon the quality of the construction, it's very heavy, I think it's pretty old. It's pretty cool.
I met a local hunter and she gave me lots of useful info. Be sure to take off the headphones and say hi to fellow MDers when you're out
You never know who you might meet or what you might learn. Now to the goods....
The overall. Still finding plenty of pennies but only 30 today, not 50. There is a beat up bracelet in there, looks copper and there is a ring with an amazing crust formation attached to it. I'm not expecting much under that crust as the ring looks like a kids ring and also appears to be copper.
Here are a couple pics of the good looking ring I found. It weighs 7.9 g and as mentioned, I cannot find a mark in it. When I found it, it was dark and my initial impression was that it was a junker. It looked tarnished and didn't seem to weigh a whole lot. When I cleaned it off and looked at it indoors, it looked much better. It is a large men's ring. It fits over my thumb! What do you think? Based upon these pics, gold or junk??
Here is another pic of the ring and I included something interesting I found. This might be relic-ish. A quick search of this name, Helena Rubenstein shows that this is a makeup company. The end of the tube says "Red Cardinal" and I think it's a lipstick tube. Based upon the quality of the construction, it's very heavy, I think it's pretty old. It's pretty cool.
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