Tumbled Finds with a very cool Surprise!

ANTIQUARIAN · Sep 2, 2014

I've been 'experimenting' with tumbling various relics I've found this year. I've tried using more and less hot water, longer & shorter tumbling times, beach sand mixed with 3/4" polished aquarium gravel or rough gravel and backing soda :icon_scratch:

... this is my latest batch of 'tumbled finds'. Three of these relics came from the 'Martingale site' in Eastern Ontario and the 'horse bit ring' came from the site where I found all of the 'brass buckle shields'. The 'surprise' is that one of the finds that I thought was iron and was initially going to dis-guard following the hunt now turns out to be brass! It looks to me to be a relatively early (19thc) casting with a lot of detail on it.

These finds tumbled for 72hrs and I changed the solution every 6 - 12 hours, I think the metamorphosis is pretty amazing myself! :laughing7:

Let me know what you all think, :thumbsup:

Dave

ANTIQUARIAN · Sep 4, 2014

deepseeker3 said:
Vinegar is great on pennies, but any clads that are in with them seem to get coated with what comes off the pennies. I would do the pennies by themselves with vinegar.

I have a heck of a time getting clads clean. Any advice?

Just sent you a PM deepseeker3! :thumbsup:

Hope it helps,
Dave