Those who read me know what an “everything but the girl” hunt is — you do all the right things, pull all the right tells, yet go home silverless.\u00a0 We’ve all been there,\u00a0 But, of course, it can be worse.\u00a0 You do all the right things, pull all the right big fish tells, and go home with a 1962D rosie.\u00a0 Well, any day with silver is a good day, so who am I to whine?\u00a0 I got the girl, after all.<\/p>\n
But lets roll this and try to make it make sense.\u00a0 Back to the site of the last couple of entries, expand the grid, and the first target of the day was the ’62D rosie.\u00a0 Woohoo.\u00a0 Early silver is special — it means the rest of the hunt is on the house.\u00a0 It was a hard, ferrous affected silver, but I was fairly sure it was gonna be a silver before I dug it.\u00a0 We’ll take it.\u00a0 Nice to reaffirm that dimes are possible at this place.<\/p>\n
Next was was yet another deep, big, high tone, a problem that plagues this place, and, coupled with the hard dirt and rocks, makes it possibly the toughest place I’ve ever detected, and, after digging deep for about 15 minutes, out pops a complete sterling silver spoon.\u00a0 Are you kidding me?\u00a0 This was 10 feet from the first base line of a baseball field that dates to the 30s.\u00a0 How did the competition miss it?\u00a0 Is it cause its deeper than they expect, and then when they get there, if it ain’t coin shaped, they assume it its trash and leave it before identifying it?\u00a0 Who knows?\u00a0 Never assume anything.\u00a0 Follow thru until you’ve identified both the metal and the object, especially if the site is wickedly old.\u00a0 This is only the second or third complete silver spoon I’ve ever dug, and I’ve never dug one at a normal run of the mill park where you’d expect the competition to have gotten it 20 years ago.<\/p>\n
But, there’s more.\u00a0 More spoonage that is.\u00a0 First multi-spoon hunt in my career.\u00a0 Maybe I should track this on the stats page.\u00a0 The next one came in as a slam dunk silver quarter, and it took me forever to find it, cause there was all this coal like stuff in the hole which kept whacking the PP.\u00a0 I only got the bowl, but it seems really old.\u00a0 Tests as silver, but the way the acid worked on it, it looks like coin silver (900 silver), rather than sterling.\u00a0 That means its prolly in the 200 year old range.\u00a0 Where’s the handle?\u00a0 Where’s the 200 year old silver quarter that should have been there?\u00a0 Where’s the supermodel?\u00a0 I sort of felt jinxed, working thru this brutal site, to come up with a complete silver spoon, then a 200 year old silver spoon bowl that should have been a silver Q dated 1813.<\/p>\n
But, there is actually more.\u00a0 Yet another miss on the supermodel.\u00a0 Got a wicked deep iffy high tone, which I was sure was gonna be an affected, old silver Q or half, and turned out to be this old looking key.\u00a0 Old keys are cool, but this one is kinda lame cause its missing the key part.\u00a0 Looks like the handle was copper, yet the stem (and presumably the key part), was ferrous.\u00a0 Who makes a key like this?\u00a0 Any key experts reading?\u00a0 The amazing thing about this was that I hit the ferrous part at about 7-8 inches, and it was sticking straight up.\u00a0 I figured — yet another nail — but I always remove them to see if we can hear the high tone better afterwards, and out comes the copper handle, which must have been at 10-11 inches.\u00a0 Amazing the E-Trac heard that thru the mineralized ground, thru the ferrous stem, and onto the high tone handle at 10 inches.\u00a0 Unbelievable.\u00a0 Would have been more unbelievable if it were a bust quarter.\u00a0 Where’s the supermodel?\u00a0 That second spoon bowl and key seem really old.\u00a0 Oh well.<\/p>\n
My wife says the key is really cool.\u00a0 I agree.\u00a0 Too bad about the business end being ferrous.<\/p>\n
Those who read me know what an “everything but the girl” hunt is — you do all the right things, pull all the right tells, yet go home silverless.\u00a0 We’ve all been there,\u00a0 But, of course, it can be worse.\u00a0 … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/082213.jpg\" "\\"082213\\"")
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