Its gold but what is it?

[iamgman]

Went down last summer prospecting one of our claims. Heres some of the gold we got the and a gold artifact. The creek is in a well known area in the sierra's near downieville. It was found down in a crack in the stream with the larger quartz nugget shown. Its fairly thin. I previously posted this on another site and the best guess i heard was maybe a link to a watch or bracelet. Any guesses?

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[EccentricInTexas]

Maybe its part of the mythical golden pull tab that all us Metal Detectorists are looking for?

 

[loco oro]

very cool! my best guess is a snuff/tobacco box/ pill box. with the tiny hinged lid, they came in a thousand differnt designs, but being gold, it was owned by someone with a lot of gold!

 

[B H Prospector]

I agree with Loco oro. I have seen tin snuff boxes with similar designs but made of tin. They are quite small about the size of a half dollar. It looks like the lid of one. Nice find and nice gold. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Tree!]

Looks middle eastern

 

[Goldslagger]

Went down last summer prospecting one of our claims. Heres some of the gold we got the and a gold artifact. The creek is in a well known area in the sierra's near downieville. It was found down in a crack in the stream with the larger quartz nugget shown. Its fairly thin. I previously posted this on another site and the best guess i heard was maybe a link to a watch or bracelet. Any guesses? [/URL] [/URL] [/URL]

Think the watchband sounds about right. Pattern is a tooled floral typical for southwestern jewelery and leather tooling

 

[iamgman]

Interesting. Never thought of it as a lid of sorts to a sniff box or whatever. You can definately see where it was soldered onto something larger. Its awfully thin for a watch band so I been questioning that.

 

[Goldslagger]

Interesting. Never thought of it as a lid of sorts to a sniff box or whatever. You can definately see where it was soldered onto something larger. Its awfully thin for a watch band so I been questioning that.

Mysteries. I had a couple of watch bands years ago made of silver. They had small plates soldiered over the link pin where the band attached to the watch and looked similar. It wasn't the actual link. Just a vaneer. Whatever it is, you found a treasure !

 

[iamgman]

Mysteries. I had a couple of watch bands years ago made of silver. They had small plates soldiered over the link pin where the band attached to the watch and looked similar. It wasn't the actual link. Just a vaneer. Whatever it is, you found a treasure !

Maybe we will find more of it this summer

 

[Lanny in AB]

Nice gold. Nice finds!

All the best,

Lanny

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