Dirtbikepilot said:
Long weekend so a few members might get the chance to go for a swing?
Solar flares are not creating any issues with detectors but be sure to slip,slop,slap if you do venture out.
Today I found (while detecting)...
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Long weekend so a few members might get the chance to go for a swing?
Solar flares are not creating any issues with detectors but be sure to slip,slop,slap if you do venture out.
I just scored the OK to detect a patch in Cue. The mining company gave their GPS marks for the best strike zones for the area. One condition! I tell them if I score any gold on surface 
I canny wait to get out there.
I canny wait to get out there.
Eureka Moments said:
Nice! I would love to know the area you got that speccy from. You just got the one Eureka?
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Eureka Moments said:Long weekend so a few members might get the chance to go for a swing?
Solar flares are not creating any issues with detectors but be sure to slip,slop,slap if you do venture out.
Not me.
After the crap I've copped from certain members on SS this week, let's just say my motivation and enthusiasm to contribute here isn't very strong. :|
Spotlight is all yours EM if you want it.
Dirtbikepilot
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Silver Soul said:I just scored the OK to detect a patch in Cue. The mining company gave their GPS marks for the best strike zones for the area. One condition! I tell them if I score any gold on surface
Top stuff and good for you. Let us know how you go.
Don't have a detector yet. Took the family panning a short while ago and what a great weekend.
didn't matter if we found anything it was probably one of the best family weekends away we
have had. Well we did find a little, a few specks not much but it was fun and relaxing.
Everyone wants to go again. It's not about finding the gold It's more about a great time together.
The wife wasn't one bit interested to start with, I was taking the kids by myself. She ended up
coming and the kids had to fight her for a gold pan, she had a ball. In a high stress job reckons
it was one of the most relaxing things she has done. Feet sitting in a cool flowing creek, sloshing a pan
kids having a swim, parrots in the trees.... can't wait to get back.
Water&Food
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i am in hunt of mini small detector that is portable good for zombie apocalypse
Near my area where I live, was this old School! It is gone now. This weekend, I am going to cane the ye old school yard.
Water&Food said:
Minelabs have retractable handles. Use a small coil and it wont take up much space.
Dirtbikepilot
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As if there are gonna be any zombies romin about your lease. They can't climb ladders so get in ya hole and
you will be just fine. Dig ya hole a little deeper, put some spikes in for the silly ones what fall in. That way they
can't get back up an get ya. A great spot for protecting you form the coming sun storm too.
you will be just fine. Dig ya hole a little deeper, put some spikes in for the silly ones what fall in. That way they
can't get back up an get ya. A great spot for protecting you form the coming sun storm too.
Water&Food
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I was thinking to detect baked beans after my stash depletes.
Dirtbikepilot
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I hope you were ahead of this bloke, he was after baked beans as well.
But you still need to be careful cause there are always bean thieves around.
But you still need to be careful cause there are always bean thieves around.
Silver Soul said:
Central Vic. about 20 mins from Ballarat. Found 3 specimens and 3 nuggets in and around the hole. Most only small, less than 0.25 grams. Lots of very old junk as well.
Going back out this arvo for an hour or so to see if I can scrounge a few more.
These pieces all came from a single hole. It took me three visits to clear out all the targets. Lots of junk as the hole was near an old track.
Today my mate found while detecting....
It is a locket with two (buggered) photos inside. Found around a foot (30 cm) deep.
I am hallmark illiterate so if anyone speaks hallmark an interpretation of them would be highly appreciated.
It is a locket with two (buggered) photos inside. Found around a foot (30 cm) deep.
I am hallmark illiterate so if anyone speaks hallmark an interpretation of them would be highly appreciated.
I think the first line could be SBROS (the first bit is hard to read)Eureka Moments said:
If so, there was a Sydenham Brothers operating out of Birmingham late 19c
The Anchor stands for Birmingham, the r means made 1891 and the Lion passant means sterling silver
The maker could of course be anyone who had "BROS" (ie "Brothers") in their name but there's only a couple in the resource I used and this one seems to match their mark.
Edited to say I did a quick scan through all the other makers and there's only a few "Bros" but Sydenham Brothers is the only mark that reasonably matches the one on your locket.
But I could be wrong
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Cheers XB. My mate will be stoked. We find a lot of old bits and pieces but not many (besides coins) that can be dated.
BTW he also found over 2 grams of nuggets so this was a bonus for him.
BTW he also found over 2 grams of nuggets so this was a bonus for him.
Found $4.50 today in a park - judging by the lack of trash, it had already been picked over. Found over $11 last week in an hour or so at another park that is still really productive.
Always hit the monkey bars first - usually get half the haul from under them alone.
Not finding any predecimal - I'm skipping deeper targets in parks and targeting $1/$2.
Always hit the monkey bars first - usually get half the haul from under them alone.
Not finding any predecimal - I'm skipping deeper targets in parks and targeting $1/$2.
Further Update:Eureka Moments said:
Did a little bit more sleuthing and am 98% certain your mark is Sydenham Brothers .... There was another set of presumably brothers, Charles Thomas & William Samuel Sheldon (ie Sheldon Brothers) who used a very similar mark (ie also SBROS) but 2 things lead me to believe it was the Sydenham Brothers:
- firstly the age of the mark (ie 1891) - Sheldons were not trading then as far as my research tells me (seems they arrived around 1909-10), and [/*]
- secondly, the Birmingham anchor on it's side - the Sheldon brothers marks that I can find all show the anchor upright, whereas the few Sydenham marks around show the anchor on it's side, as on the locket.[/*]
A little bit of info then about the Sydenham Brothers to impress your mate when you tell him all about his find ....
here's a pic of their makers mark which was registered at the Chester office in 1878 (it's from another piece they made)
This firm was founded circa 1873 under the name of Sydenham Brothers & Tebbitt, by George and Robert Sydenham and Claude Tebbitt and traded at 54 New Edmund Street in Birmingham. The partnership with Claude Tebbitt which ended in 1875 and sometime after Tebbitt's departure, a third Sydenham brother, William, joined the firm, and eventually they moved premises to Tenby Street around 1900.
When George died in 1910, he left an estate worth the then large sum of 14,729, an indication of the firm's prosperity. The firm became a limited company in the same year. An advertisement in 1913 describes the firm as manufacturers of diamond and gem-set jewellery. It ceased trading in 1930.
Finally, here's a poster with which to really impress your mate:
