10/6/12 Report - Preserving Finds

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Sprayed Pot Shard Showing Original Glaze



As you know old items deteriorate over time. Items that were on a beach or in the salt water of the ocean will often deteriorate very rapidly. Iron, wood, ceramics as well as many other materials can all deteriorate rapidly after being found and that it is

9/24/12 Report - Identifying Finds

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14K Pin Find


This Kappa Delta Pi pin is easy to identify.  Kappa Delta Pi is an international honor society for educators. 

The pin tells you everything you need to know, but not all finds are so easy to identify.

Here are a few quick and easy things you can do to help identify finds.





The

9/2/12 Report - Big Seas Predicted & Florida Pirate Locations

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Three Small Detector Finds.  Dime for size comparison.

Here are three small detector beach finds.  The heart on the dime is silver. 

What do you think the other two are?   I'll talk about them some other time.


The seas are only one to two feet now but seven or eight foot seas are predicted for next

8/6/12 Report - Figuring Gold Values & Conditions

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Here is a nice 14K ladies bracelet found on a Treasure Coast beach.  It weighs less than the ring I showed yesterday. 


Yesterday I discussed how gold is measured in Troy ounces rather than the Avoirdupois ounces that we use most of the time.  Also, a lot of people use grams when talking about gold.

3/30/12 Report - To Clean or Not To Clean Finds

To clean or not to clean, that is the question for today.Cob As Found.I recently received an email asking if some found items should be cleaned or not.That seems like an easy enough question, but it is actually a difficult question to answer. It depends upon a lot of factors. And some of it is personal preference. Some people like their finds to look like they were just made, and others like them

3/21/12 Report - Miniature Detector Finds, & Other News

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Small Religious Medallion.Just a couple of small curiosities today. This religious medallion is one of the smaller ones that I've found. It is heavily corroded and I don't know how old it is. The back is too encrusted to see if there is any information there. I might clean it someday to find out if it says

2/17/12 Report - Bullet Find & Researching Detector Finds

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Variety of Bullets.I posted this photo a few days ago to show a variety of bullet finds. I thought the one at the bottom might be an "anti-aircraft" bullet. Someone once told me that. I guess that is partly right.Anyhow, I received a great email from Kevin B. He said it was probably a Browning 50 caliber

12/9/11 Report - Markings on Gold Jewelry Finds

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Beach Find.










It is nice when a found item is marked.  The clasp on this bracelet is marked  "Italy 14K  .585."

Don't accept markings without verification though.   They are occasionally wrong.

This item tests 14K.

And I'll have to give the Italians credit for making a fine band.

You can

8/17/11 Report - Diamond Finds & Being Safe

Rain Clouds Over the Ocean This Morning on the Treasure Coast.

It is not uncommon to find diamond rings. There are a lot of zircons out there though. You can have a $30,000 diamond or a piece of junk. How do you know?

With practice you can learn to identify most diamonds with a jeweler's loop, but it can be difficult to tell a zircon from a diamond. A diamond tester can be helpful, but they

4/13/11 Report. - Sand, VolleyBall Courts and Diamonds

A Typical Treasure Coast Beach This Morning.I saw a tv program where they talked to a fisherman that found an old pot underwater. He brought it to the Antiques Roadshow. He had only one question. What was the pot worth. He made it clear he didn't care about anything else.Well, it turned out the pot was medieval and turned out to be worth a good bit, but after the fellow learned more about the pot

10/13 Report - Unidentified Treasure Beach Finds

Treasure Coast Treasure Beach Metal Detector Find.I found his bracelet but am not sure of the age period. I don't know how long clasps like this have been used. I would suspect not that long, but I don't know. If anyone knows, I'd like to hear from you. The bracelet and clasp are silver, but there are no markings that I can see. I would think this is probably less than a hundred years old, yet