More gold and silver today.....strange gold find on a silver bracelet

lorraine

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:hello:Hi,

Well, I returned to yesterday's beach to pick up what I missed..and I was pleasantly surprised with what I found.

All finds were in dry sand..."bare bones" area...and were not deep.

The ? copper/? brass cuff bracelet is interesting in that it has a tiny hands on each end of the bracelet...wonder what that signifies? :icon_scratch:

The silver bracelet ( 8.27 gms) was quite tarnished and thickly encrusted...difficult to clean.

There is a tiny "925" stamping on the movable clasp...too tiny to photograph, so I acid- tested it.....result + silver.

As I was examining the bracelet, I noticed an attached appendage that had a dull gold hue, and it was encrusted with green and brown material.???


Remembering a 10 K ring that I had found several years ago which was also encrusted with similar material, I decided to acid test this appendage, and sure enough acid test was + for 10K:hello2:


In retrospect, I was confused at the lower than usual tone for silver that the GT gave off on the bracelet...must've been the gold?


Now, I must tell you that this is a very small gold find..I'm talkin' " really small" here:laughing7: ( 0.16 gms)...not a major find, but I was delighted to discover it on the bracelet.

You never know where that gold will show up...check those bracelets carefully!:icon_thumleft:

Here's some pics of today's hunt

Thanks for looking

Lorraine

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BONUS on the Gold!!!:thumbsup:!!


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nice finds congrats HH
 

Nice find,and it cleaned up real nice.
I bet there was a gold charm of some sort
on that bracelet at one time.
 

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Nice find,and it cleaned up real nice.
I bet there was a gold charm of some sort
on that bracelet at one time.

You need to go back and find the charm...... Another Great hunt. Papa
 

WTG Lorraine. Looks like you found a great spot.
 

WTG Lorraine.... nice work making those finds after the previous hunt..... You continue to amaze me with how nice you can clean up silver and your photographic skills show in your photos too, nice closeup work! As said above, I agree, there was a charm on that loop.....something more for you to find out there!

GL
Cliff
 

HI LO, any tips for that acid test. I recently bought a kit. Kind of hard to figure out. Great finds!! Ray
 

HI LO, any tips for that acid test. I recently bought a kit. Kind of hard to figure out. Great finds!! Ray

What brand of acid test did you purchase?

I have two: 1) Preliminary test in which I drop gold testing acid from a glass stylet( clear result = + ; black result=neg

2) Mizer electronic gold test kit ( renders the K number)

Lorraine
 

Great cleaning job Lorraine:
 

Nice finds congrats hello 2
 

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Nice Lorraine
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Nice finds Lorraine, the bracelet's awesome.:icon_thumright:
 

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