Georgia find

[Jcksnghst]

Please help:

This object, in my humble opinion, has been molten and at some point sent airborne until it landed on an early bird-like creature. This occurs to me because of the flame-like pattern on its top and the impressions in its bottom. To my mind's eye it appears as if the feather like impressions include scales that appear as the uniform but not quite round impressions seen in some of the close-up photos made with a magnifying app.

This object can be subjected to a propane torch and it does not retain heat very much at all. The length of time it has been placed under such heat would burn the hand if it were any other metal yet this object barely feels warmed.

The tests were performed at the Jewelry Exchange in Dalton, Georgia by the owner of said jewelry store with him offering eighty-five hundred dollars on the spot stating that he wanted it more for the rarity of the object than the 117 grams +/- of the gold makes up the majority of material present. The owner subsequently called day after day until his offer was in excess of twelve thousand five hundred dollars whereas he was told that the object was no longer available and to please stop calling trying to buy it.

I feel by now I will have either lost your attention entirely or I have successfully satisfied your curiosity as to whether I'm legit in what I am proposing that this object in my possession may actually be.

Again, I want to thank you for any considerations and I beg of you if you do not believe what I am proposing this object may be that you will at least share this conversation and the photos to others that you may deem helpful in identifying or disproving what I say or that may otherwise be in need if a good laugh.

 

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[JVA5th]

Just looks like melted copper. Me and my brothers smelt old copper into rounds like that I have a few that look almost exactly like that. Could be wrong but that's all it looks like in my opinion.

 

[Red-Coat]

Is this the place where there's a guy with $12,500 burning a hole in his pocket?



I only ask because I've got an ingot of mythril that he might be interested in purchasing. Just waiting for it to cool down and then I can pop it in the post for his appraisal.

 

[Blak bart]

I would immediately return and take the offer of 12500 !! Thats a great offer !!

 

[ToddsPoint]

No idea what it is but you sure took lots of good pics.

 

[blauer]

"He kept raising his offer every time reaching $12,500."

LOL. Yeah, right, but he won't tell you what it is?

I also don't see where you preformed a streak and hardness test.

Kiss my shiny metal ass because I'm 40% copper.

 

[fyrffytr1]

I do not think your abject is corundum. But it is a conundrum!

 

[JVA5th]

Here's some examples of a few of my ingots for comparison. Brass, copper, and aluminum.

 

[JVA5th]

Also all those elements melt quite easily ruby at 3400 fahrenheit and the other even lower melting point. A small propane crucible can produce those temperatures with a little bit of effort. I've melted sand plenty of times in one with similar melting points. So a few things don't add up. Not trying to be rude but I just happen to know some things that are off.

 

[Heavygold4me]

Take the money and run, it looks like copper to me

 

[Fat]

..... that poor bird, do you think it was flying along minding its own business or just sitting and chirping on its nest? I know your not suppose to roller skate in a buffalo herd but why did the chicken cross the road?..

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Looks like copper to me too.

 

[fyrffytr1]

Even if it was solid gold, at today's price of $56.34 a gram x 114 grams comes out to $6,422.76. Why was the $12,500 offered for it?

 

[JVA5th]

I still think it's copper more so now. Found in a creek explains the polished look from being turned in the water. Something copper was melted sat in the creek for years and polished up. Copper has that exact color. Sorry but I'm extremely skeptical of this. I don't know much but I do know my metal as I've smelted things down for years. I mean I could be wrong as I know I don't know it all but I'm just not seeing what you're seeing.

 

[smokeythecat]

I vote for a homemade copper piece. When I have melted metals on irregular surfaces it looks just like that and the cooling pattern on the one side clearly shows it cooled relatively slowly.

 

[vpnavy]

I moved ya from TODAY'S FINDS! over to WHAT IS IT? for more exposure.

 

[Electrician819]

I've melt alot of copper, and strangely it looks like copper but I'm not convinced.
Interesting

 

[RJGMC]

Any good scrap metal dealer usually has a handheld spectrometer type instrument to test certain metals like carbide tooling before he buys it. I would have him test it. If not, hotfoot it back to the amazed gentleman at the jewelry store and take his money, in cash and leave. With the green "patina" that it started with, that was extremely hard to get off, copper/brass/bronze alloy of some sort is the likely material. Good luck!

 

[Tnmountains]

Me too... I'm still researching but haven't taken to a place that I can get the certification to satisfy my own mind and others.
I still own it and have acquired another specimen found within a few feet of the first one.

p.s. taking pictures just now with flash and early morning light resulted in the pictures I attach here...I almost threw up....wow... Just....omg wow... What is this?

Bring it up to Chattanooga and I will find a metallurgist for you. I am friends with some Geologist.

 

[JVA5th]

Also in giving a little information when you do a crude smelting without say heating the mold first you get a lot of bubbling and a rough appearance. In a crude cast you will get a lot of strange looking ingots. Also copper is a little more finicky because it takes a ton of heat to melt it. Still just my opinion remember I could be wrong just for me greatly resembles smelted copper.