coldmidget
Senior Member
nice
I think it should be mandatory for beaches to have Defibrillators for cases like this, LOL.
Congrats.
1st off , thanks for your service ! As marines are always prepared , so must a detectorist. I gotta think you will remedy that by getting a scale and diamond tester. It's like having a gun cleaning kit : mandatory. A heart stopper to me has always been defined as the exhilaration of a major score once you dig it out. For 10 seconds. Only to realize it's a fake. Like my recent 1carat solitaire I posted. I hope that's not the case. My experience is the majority of 10k I find has fake stones , particularly when small. Even if they are real , they aren't worth much. But if it's real gold , it looks like its weighty ! So that's good. But I'm with Craig , I would off it. Private party sale will yield more than scrap. Would hate for you to oogle over it for a long time not knowing. Anyways , you are on the start of a nice gold run ! Good luck on getting more...
A couple of years ago a woman insisted I stop everything and drive an hour to her house and look for her lost ring. I agreed and told her I do not charge but I do ask to be able to search the whole yard and keep anything Else I find. She agreed so I drove to her house and almost immediately found the lost ring.
I ws her hero and she invited me inside for a drink of water. I then informed her I wanted to begin MY search and reminded her of our agreement. She became very angry and screamed that I’d better not dig anything and pushed me out the door!!
There were a couple of penny signals but I didn’t dig them as I assumed she was watching. I went around the corner and got a penny-dime signal. I dug a plug and saw about 4 inches of a bracelet hanging out of the wall of the hole. I gently pulled and then had an 11 inch bracelet in my hands and I left. It’s gold silver and diamonds and the jeweler who repairs a couple of broken links said it was over 50 years old ( she had just moved in)
A couple of years ago a woman insisted I stop everything and drive an hour to her house and look for her lost ring. I agreed and told her I do not charge but I do ask to be able to search the whole yard and keep anything Else I find. She agreed so I drove to her house and almost immediately found the lost ring.
I ws her hero and she invited me inside for a drink of water. I then informed her I wanted to begin MY search and reminded her of our agreement. She became very angry and screamed that I’d better not dig anything and pushed me out the door!!
There were a couple of penny signals but I didn’t dig them as I assumed she was watching. I went around the corner and got a penny-dime signal. I dug a plug and saw about 4 inches of a bracelet hanging out of the wall of the hole. I gently pulled and then had an 11 inch bracelet in my hands and I left. It’s gold silver and diamonds and the jeweler who repairs a couple of broken links said it was over 50 years old ( she had just moved in)
...thanks for your service ! ......