Today I found (while detecting)...

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  1. Eureka Moments

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    ^^^ XB you are a champion! Top info about this relic.

    I reckon you're right about the maker being Sydenham Bros. The shield (trade mark) at the top of their Ad looks very similar to the shape of the locket.

    Always great to find out stuff about an items history. Sadly the photos are buggered and there is no engraving to say who it belonged to. Found on some diggings on private farmland so could have belonged to a miner or farmer or their partner?
     
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    Found this lot today. The coin might be an old threepence but will have to give it a clean to see the details on it.

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    Definitely an old Queen Victoria threepence. You can see the wreath and crown (and the 3!). I'll even have a stab at it being 1886 :D
     
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  4. Eureka Moments

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    Giving it an ammonia bath and then some bi-carb...all will be revealed.
     
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    ^^^ 1886 Queen Vic. threepence.

    Well spotted GP, your eyesight is excellent. Must be all the omega 3 in your diet. :)
     
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    So is there an after pic?
     
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    Definitely required!!
     
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    2 hours soaking in ammonia and then a rub with bicarb.
     
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    ^^^ an MS69?

    Nice job, although I'm seriously impressed how anyone can tell that's an 1886 coin

    [I'll have to try bathing the kids in ammonia ... they come home in that state]
     
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    If you re interested in detecting there is a show on this that has just finished its first season called American Digger - They usually find a lot of relics, 5k or so of products each show.

    Ric savage runs the company, ex restler.

    Some may be interested, i did not want to start a new thread and i searched the forum and found nothing on this show.

    It may give people ideas on how/where to look. On most torrent sites it can be found still.

    -My cousin was the girl in the wedding where the priest dropped the ring into the river that was on the news/tv, the cops looked for it for a few days while they were on a diving training, im sure a detector would not have taken as long as they nearly gave up.
     
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    Found a 1917 British penny in a park last weekend that had been hit pretty hard judging by the total lack of decimal coinage around the play equipment, as well as a 1952 penny.

    Got some other decent signals that warrant a return - I was "skimming the top" for $1/$2 coins more than anything as I was on limited time.

    My first predecimal finds - my wife had found two in the nature strip out the front of the house with the detector, but these were my first park predecimal finds. Planning on going back without the 3yo in tow so I can cover more ground!
     
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    American digger is on FTA TV now on friday night for people who don't download.

     
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    $14.15 off the beach at Palm Cove :)
     
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  14. Eureka Moments

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    Great place to pluck schrapnel from. :)

    Any fish?
     
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    Two little GTs.
     
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    ^^ even the little ones put up a great fight, last year I was fortunate enough to go on a week long fishing charter to the Swains Reef system about 200km off the coast of Yepoon,Qld where I got onto a 20kg GT ...... they are unlike anything you have ever been hooked up to.
    That was one of the smaller ones of the trip, there was a couple around the 40kg mark caught. Beautiful animals, all were caught and released to fight another day :)
     
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    The 1kg ones we caught ended up in butter and capers :D
     
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    ^^^mmmmm tasty I bet :p :)
     
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    I've got no idea what a GT is. Is it a fish? What does that have to do with prospecting?

    Edit: ooohhh okay, read the thread properly now. Well done GP :)
     
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  20. Eureka Moments

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    Fishing and detecting can occur together in the one outing if you have the gear for both.

    Sometimes I come across a nice dam while out bush detecting. If the gold pickings are slim or its too hot I can grab a rod out of the car and dangle a line for awhile. Also carry a couple of yabbie nets. They're even better as you can drop them in a dam and keep detecting.

    Bugger all GT's though. Redfin, trout and friggen carp are the dominant inland species around my way.
     
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