Smorgasbord

[yakker]

Yesterday was my first chance to look hunt for anything, and the tide was low just at twilight. Found a motley assortment of items- from fossil imprints to a suspect shell cup, fishing lure, gun flint, colonial pottery chunk, tavern pipe bits, a (knife?) handle- all water-weathered, and some old glass-- oh yeah- and a broke (tip) and a decent red blade! Not bad for an hour or so in a location that's purely hit-or-miss (and mostly miss). Looking forward to tomorrow! Thanks for looking- Yakker






and this is the weird little 'cup'. I hesitate to even show it, but I'm surrounded by shells nearly everywhere I go, and this is too uniform and too...perfect... to be just erosion. It appears to be oyster (not a surprise), not fragile, but evenly thinned down to the mother-of-pearl. I rarely pick up shells because I just don't know enough. This one caught my eye.

Cheers!

 

[rock]

Better than working or just sitting at home. Nice finds

 

[monsterrack]

Nice finds I like that French gun flint.

 

[yakker]

Yes, it is better than sitting at home. 'Party favors' just for showing up on a beach are always a satisfying thing! And I love that French gunflint too. It was barely poking out of a nasty wad of rust- nothing to identify, but I did realize it might be the gun it was in when it was 'lost'. Again, it wasn't worth trying to save the rust, so I cracked it out- and it didn't take much. Thanks for looking at my pitiful picnic plate of odds and ends! Yak

 

[unclemac]

I am a big time beachcomber....love your stuff...let's see that gun flint....

 

[Flea-bit Monkey]

That gun flint is beautiful. I couldn't imagine finding that. Have you found those before?