beach artifacts

[vulcan007]

What do you do with your beach artifacts? Do you keep/preserve/sell/ throw away/ etc?

I mean items that may have some value.

 

[GOHO]

SELL!!!

 

[Sapper23]

Well,,
The code always saids: Finders.. Keepers.

Keep / Preserve / Sell the artifacts: Yes, on all three issue's,

 

[itmaiden]

Sell the artifacts you do not wish to cherish while the market is taking them, and use the money wisely. If you asked me whether I would rather have the artifact or something at the mall, the answer would be clearly "the artifact". Now if you asked me if I would like to keep the artifact, or buy some very useful land with it (not that Florida sand) then I would definitely buy the land. Land that provides sustainability...good for gardens/crops, hunting, and water sources.

itmaiden

What do you do with your beach artifacts? Do you keep/preserve/sell/ throw away/ etc?

I mean items that may have some value.

 

[mad4wrecks]

Speaking of beach artifacts........

http://www.wptv.com/mostpopular/sto...inson-island-sand/1soXc42bhUqY5so-XgkD3Q.cspx

I think it was a dune buggy that belonged to Art Hartman.

 

[FISHEYE]

I keep/preserve all my beach artifacts.Got a big safe here full of the ones that fit.The ones that dont fit in the safe are now yard ornaments.But i have sold 2 gold escudo's i found on the beach a few years ago when they were bringing top dollar on ebay.

 

[aquanut]

Speaking of beach artifacts........

http://www.wptv.com/mostpopular/sto...inson-island-sand/1soXc42bhUqY5so-XgkD3Q.cspx

I think it was a dune buggy that belonged to Art Hartman.

Deepsix and I ran across the engine block back around 1994 during an extreme low tide/erosion combination. It was buried, so we had to dig to expose it. I can't believe we just left it there...
Aquanut

 

[inletsurf]

Speaking of beach artifacts........

http://www.wptv.com/mostpopular/sto...inson-island-sand/1soXc42bhUqY5so-XgkD3Q.cspx

I think it was a dune buggy that belonged to Art Hartman.

Deepsix and I ran across the engine block back around 1994 during an extreme low tide/erosion combination. It was buried, so we had to dig to expose it. I can't believe we just left it there...
Aquanut

You know there's an old car/truck drivetrain buried behind the radisson just south of Eau Gallie. Only comes up during extreme low tides after storms. Seen it about 10 times in the past 13 years.

 

[Sorroque]

Ditto too.
I found an old engine.
When the springs on the valves were exposed firstly I thought I found a conglomerate of coins!!! It was square as I felt around it,'An entire chest of coins'!
I was shaking alot!
Then as the more sand I dug I came to realise it was something else. I dug the whole thing out and carried it down to the water line and washed it off. An automobile or boat engine block was all it was.
It was a foot deep. And my awesome story I was going to tell Kellyco, who sold me the detector, was done.
This was at Canova Beach, 1996.

 

[vulcan007]

Where do you sell your artificats?

Does Sedwick pay market value?

 

[cuzcosquirrel]

I'm allowed to pick up and bring in all the porcelin pieces I find. I have been told once to leave metal and other stuff alone unless it's really interesting. They are trying to get a surf debris pattern for the "good" porcelin off a Spanish trade vessel in the area I go to so they can eventually pursue it.

There is sadly a lot of burned out porcelin from the wreck that all the glaze and markings have been worn off of, maybe 70% of it. There are also a lot of other vessels wrecked in the same general area. I photograph most of the stuff I see and I may move things up the beach to a dune line to see if they want to recover them, or rebury stuff found away from the surf line.

 

[vulcan007]

Is this in Florida?