Hit the rocks today at low tide...nice chunk of silver bracelet recovered.

[lorraine]

Hi,

Rain threat finally ceased, so I headed out late morning to seek my fortune.

Did a bit of dry sand detecting as I waited for the tide to recede..not much found except an army of sand flies and sand fleas...where's the Calamine lotion, please?

Finally moved out to ankle deep water among a rocky / pebbly area. Visibility was clear and I was able to see a group of smal sized rocks so I headed over and after hearing the target among the rocks, I removed a couple of rocks and dug out a thickly tarnished...(kind of oily surface tarnish) silver bracelet.

This type of tarnish is so very hard to clean..takes a lot longer than the crusty type tarnish, but I managed to clean it up.

Here's some pics of today's finds, and also a pic of a 1939 "Merc" found yesterday in low tide mud...quite good condition for where it was bedded.

thanks for looking at my finds.

Lorraine










9 1/2 inches 2.5 cm

 

[CASPER-2]

Nice hunk of silver

 

[chrisplay2004]

As Always...Love Silver! Very nice find and great cleaning job!

 

[leprechaun]

Very nice braclet lorraine,Gotta love those sinkers.

 

[cntrydncr1]

that is a nice hunk of silver Lorraine! congrats. And as usual, you did a great job on the clean up!

 

[fredinbelize]

That's a nice bracelet.Good clean up.

 

[lookindown]

You brought that bracelet back from the dead...nice find.

 

[Smoogle]

sweet bracelet - I would have been very happy to have got something like that today - HH Lorraine

 

[DrJoePrime]

SILVER! Love finding it (only 2nd to Gold). Congrats, Lorraine!

Great job of cleaning too. It's about what I'd expect, less than a gram, for material lost.

Have you sold any of your silver? The refineries charge 10% which is kinda steep.

 

[lorraine]

Have you sold any of your silver? The refineries charge 10% which is kinda steep.[/QUOTE]

Yes, Dr. Joe, I sell many of my silver finds ; the silver that does not clean up so well I send to ARA

Lorraine

 

[plymouthian12]

well done on the rescue

 

[BeachComber7]

Wow Lorraine, fantastic find!!

 

[dewcon4414]

Looks like you put it on a diet.... it lost a little weight. Looks great cleaned up..... nice.

Dew

 

[kiana7]

Thats a nice hunk of silver,,WTG,nice cleaning,,HH

 

[detectahead]

Great clean up Lorraine! WTG!

 

[Jason in Enid]

I've never seen silver look like that before, I wonder what caused it to look rusted? Regardless, you found a nice bracelet, so congrats!

What did you use to clean it?

 

[Treasure Quest]

Great finds Lorraine, its always nice finding the older stuff.

 

[hamiddetecting]

Nice clean, well done!

 

[lorraine]

I've never seen silver look like that before, I wonder what caused it to look rusted? Regardless, you found a nice bracelet, so congrats!

What did you use to clean it?

Thank you, Jason:


That "rust" coating made me think at first that this bracelet was "junk", but then I realized that it was a non- corrosive adherent and it was not eroding the medal; I was able to brush that brown dusty coating away with a cloth ( my old raggedy detecting T-shirt at the scene ).

To clean the bracelet, I began with electrolysis, but soon realized that it would take too long with this "sticky, oily" type of tarnish, so I then placed it flat out in a container of Tarn-X and after about 3 minutes, I was able to scrub the tarnish away with a toothbrush and Baking soda. Then I shined it with Jewelery's rouge.

Lorraine

 

[rock]

Thanks for finding my bracelet for me . And nice finds