Yesterday was fun. Today was frustrating!!!

[2ndoldman]

Yesterday I spent time on two different beaches.
First beach dump. A light snack. And then back to digging.
Second beach dump. Then it is time for cleaning.
First thing is to hose everything off and sort out the crapulance and lead.
Then toss the brass and copper into the tumbler. And go to work on this with the reverse electrolysis. Depending on how clean and shiny I want the brass to look it takes between 3 and 5 hours.
This took a little over three hours yesterday. Then it is time for the lead. And I only tumble the lead for half an hour to knock the muck off.

[2ndoldman]

Now it is time for the final cleaning.
Anything that was too delicate for the mass tumbling or something that I think is interesting.
Gets a treatment with fresh stones and a mix of water and vinegar.
This is that mystery coin.
Not as cool as the 1887 seated dime I pulled from this beach last time but I will take a 1913 anyways.
These are the rest of the items that got special treatment.
A couple of silver plated spoons.
And a few of knick knacks. The round object on the left is part of a clothing snap.
And I am not sure but I think that this item patented in 1900 is for holding paper to a clipboard.
All of those items came from the first beach.
The second one I think that you can tell was penny beach again. Where I found three projectiles.
Two for play and one for pay. I also found this cool artifact.
And yes it was part of the special clean up only.

[2ndoldman]

Normally I get frustrated by finding the lower half of bottles and the top is broken off.
This one was extremely frustrating though because as you can see the bottle was never opened.
How would you like to find an unopened bottle of port from 1869 at it's youngest.


I found that information in this paper about bottle top capsules.

J. G. Marzetti & Sons
The last time I was at penny beach a sweet 18K white gold showed up.
This time is was yellow gold.
Me thinks that more lefties show throw pennies in the ocean.

What do you think?

Why was today a total cluster F***?
I spent the whole day either on the phone or running around trying to fix my internet.

I can laugh about it now but earlier today I was a ticking
And although I wanted to I didn't blow up on the phone.

[Ron Kelley]

Hey Bruce, Any day you can find gold is a whopper good day. Yesterday was so good it covers today.

[2ndoldman]

I like the idea of passing it forward Ron, this was two steps backwards.

[toccopola]

nice hunt. the old man down the road from me says - it be's that way sometime.

[2ndoldman]

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[BabaORiley]

What are you holding in your hand in the 2nd pic that looks like a bunch of blackberries?

[2ndoldman]

They are the sweetest and biggest blackberries I have found this year so far.

[OBION]

Great pictures and story! Congrats on the ring

[2ndoldman]

Thank you.