5/23/24 Report - Metal Detecting Newsletters and Clubs of The Past. 10,000 Artifacts Unearthed.

 Written by the Treasureguide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

Tesoro Newsletter.

It wasn't always this way.  People used to get their information by reading papers.  And a lot of came in the mail.  Thar is how we got a lot of our metal detecting information.  For one thing, metal detector manufacturers produced newsletters that you could subscribe to for a price

Last night i just happened to open a box of containing a bunch of newsletters and other old metal detecting information as well as personal research.

Above you see the Tesoro newsletter.  I found a stack of those in my box.  

Tesoro, as you probably know, went out of business not too long ago.  They produced some good detectors.  I liked Tesoro metal detectors for specific situations, and I liked the lifetime warranty they offered.  I won't get into the details of different detectors now, but my first Tesoro was a Royal Sabre that, at the time, offered some advanced functions including notch discrimination and surface blanking.  Their Silver Sabre was known for quick target response, which allowed a fast sweep speed, and was used a lot in competition hunts. 

Garrett Newsletter Searcher.

Garrett was a leading manufacturer of metal detectors and still produces some good machines.  There was a time when it was probably the most used metal detector on Treasure Coast beaches and probably most of the United States..  I will still use my ATX at times.  They aren't as strong as they once were in the metal detecting hobby these days, but they also produce walk-through metal detectors and military detectors. 

Fisher Newsletter.

The Fisher Aquanaut 1280 was a breakthrough metal detector for me.  It was my first waterproof detector.  I did well with that detector and also bought a Fisher two-box detector for bigger targets.   I used it several years ago to locate my septic tank.  

Garrett, Fisher and Whites were probably the top three for hobby metal detecting a few decades ago. 

Besides the manufacturer newsletters, there were also club newsletters, which, of course, were snaller, often only a few pages.  Below is one of those.

The Pull-Tab Express.

The Pull-Tab express was sponsored by a metal detector shop in North Hollywood Florida.  I'm not sure of the name of the shop right now, but I think it was the Pot-O-Gold.  It was located in Dania very close to the Fort Lauderdale airport.  The owner's name was Jerry.  I've talked a little about him before, but he sold me an Aquanaut 1280, which paid for itself in face value dug coins alone the first year.  I believe the purchase price was around $650.  I know it was something over $600.  I kept breaking the plastic armrest until they got me a metal one.  They plastic ones just weren't strong enough, but the rest of the detector was very durable.  The battery compartment was separated from the electronics by a plastic wall so if you had a leak in the battery compartment, it didn't get to the circuitry.  That was a great feature that saved me on one occasion.

Not all metal detecting clubs were local.  There were national and even international groups for detectorists and treasure hunters.

TH'ERS Express,

One large group of treasure hunters was Land Sea Explorations.  It was an international group that participated in some pretty big projects.  Some members got shares in a Mexico silver mine, for example.  

Land Sea Explorations Newsletter.

So those are some of the examples I found in that box.  If those things were on a computer, floppy disk, or some electronic media, I probably wouldn't have them today.  Paper seems to last longer than digital media which quickly goes out of date and becomes obsolete.  The same thing goes for old photos.

If I got any of the names or details wrong, please let me know.

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• An archaeologically rich area of England’s Cotswold region yielded another find during a highway construction project.
• Some of the over 10,000 artifacts located date back more than 12,000 years.
• A deposit of Roman-era artifacts is one of the highlights of the discovery.

In a modern-day effort to expand England’s A417 highway through a three-mile stretch in Gloucestershire County, archaeologists found something far from modern: an ancient trove of Roman-era treasures and artifacts dating from the Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Iron Age.

Here is the link for the rest of that article.

Archaeologists Found 10,000 Treasures That Suggest They Dug Up an Ancient Roman Pit Stop (msn.com)

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Full moon last night, but not much has changed.

Good hunting,

TreasureGuide@comcast.net