2/23/24 Report - One Reader's Porcelain Finds. Problem With Metal Detector ID Numbers. Cartier Ring.

 

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Various Pieces of Porcelain Found by John C.

A day or two ago, I did a post that showed some 1715 Fleet Kang Hsi porcelain,  John C. sent the following email and showed some pieces he found.  Below is what he said.

Here's s some of my nicer pieces, Sometimes you luck out, and find a double blue like the bigger one on the bottom left, Where you have a beautiful design on both sides, And then sometimes you find different colors, like shades of green and yellow, and reds, Then you get the bummers, The just plain ones, Which I have quite a few of those, That are usually really thin, but may still have a faint light blue design, that might be still visible, like the white one in the center.

One Piece with Marine Encrustation.

Nice finds  Thanks John.

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ID numbers are ring killers.

Yesterday I showed a 10K class ring that was just found on a local beach.  How do you think it would show on a Minelab Equinox?

Well, it depends up how the ring was laying.  If it was like shown here, it would probably give something like a six or seven ID number, but it could be jumpy depending upon things like how you are swinging and how the ring passes under the coil.

If you were only digging good tones and definite coin signals, you would have missed it.  It really wasn't a great signal.

If the ring was on edge, as shown below, what would it sound like?

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Same Ring on Edge.

Once again it depends upon how the coil passes over the ring.  You could get a pretty decent signal if you were swinging in one direction.  If you swing your coil in the same direction as the length of the edge, you would get something in the area of 13 or 15, and a good tone.  However, if you the coil across the high edge instead of across it, the readout would be more like a 6 or 7 and not so solid.

If you were only digging solid coin signals, you would most likely miss that ring.

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Yesterday I also posted this ring found by Dan K.  

Gold Ring Found by Dan K. on the 19th.

I mentioned that it was a very common type of ring, and I couldn't think of what it was called.

Jason T. came up with it.  Here is what he said.

Hello Treasure guide. Thanks for good reading on your blog.

 Ring looks like Cartier style ring. Authentic Cartier is expensive and often faked.   Jasson T.

Thanks Jason, I couldn't think of that.

As I recall they were pretty common finds back in the 1980s or 1990s.

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Tuesday on the Oak Island TV show, one of the archaeologists discovered what appeared to be a coin while screening dirt from an excavation.  I've commented before on the superiority of of screening and highly recommend screening when you want to get everything.  They've been metal detecting the island for years, but that coin was found by screening. 

I thought it was strange how little attention was given to that coin discovery, which would normally result in cartwheels and bad guesses as to it's identify.  I don't know why this one received so little attention.  Maybe they'll pay more attention to it in future episodes.

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Here is a good video.  Bill Maher gets educated, at least a little, on the Bible.

Bill Maher Challenges Jordan Peterson On the Bible (youtube.com)

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Surf Chart for SurfGuru.com.

The bigger surf got delayed again.  Now showing for Sunday.

You might want to take advantage of the lower surf on Friday.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net