🥇 BANNER A SOLID GOLD THIMBLE!

diggergrl

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Hi everyone,

I haven’t been very active lately but I do look at the finds dug and posted here! I just found something that just have to share with all of you! I was out with Buckleboy who is my husband, and I managed to dig this lovely 1876-S dime! I had never dug an S mint coin so this was my first.

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(Buckleboy wasn’t finding anything the whole day long ). It was a long day in some pretty brutal heat. When I got back to the truck I was changing out of my boots and looked over and saw something gold shining right on top of the ground a few feet away! It was a Solid Gold Thimble which had washed out of the ground near where we parked in the field!!

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When I bent down to pick it up I could see that it was monogrammed! Buckleboy and I looked up the plantation ownership deeds and we figured out who this thimble belonged to! I won’t reveal a specific name due to secrecy of the site we are detecting, but the woman that the thimble belonged to was born in 1841 and married in the late 1850s to a wealthy planter. We imagine that this thimble was a courtship gift, as it bears her maiden name initials and was found at her parents’ plantation home site (now just a sugar cane field with no trace). So that dates this thimble to between 1857 and 1859, depending on the length of their courtship. I’m totally thrilled to dig this beautiful relic. Haven’t seen a gold thimble posted here before. It’s amazing that it survived the plow!

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All cleaned up at home:

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This is going to put a smile on my face all week!

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-Diggergirl
 

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Showtime2385

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Amazing find :icon_thumright:
 

A2coins

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Boom Baby thats freakin sweat Banner all day Great find
 

Valley Ranger

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Amazing. Congrats!
 

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diggergrl

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Awesome find!
Sometimes there are makers marks and date codes located inside at the top.

Click here >Antique gold thimbles

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GG~

sadly no date code or other marks on this one. We identified the person whose it was. If it was a coming of age gift from her father, 1840s. If it was a marriage betrothal or a courtship gift, early 1850s.
 

Argentium

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DG , I'm happy that this post was brought back from a couple years ago - really nice seeing a beautiful solid gold relic like that again !!
 

Megalodon

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DG , I'm happy that this post was brought back from a couple years ago - really nice seeing a beautiful solid gold relic like that again !!

Yes, I agree. I well remember the excitement we could feel over this find and the big smile on DG's face. But it was more than the find itself. She (and buckleboy?) did the research and put together a nice story for us here at tnet, with excellent pictures. Those postings could serve as a tutorial for how to submit a find and make it interesting with a relevant write-up. I was proud to have been the first one (I think?) to nominate it for banner.
 

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