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| 14K Gold and Natural Pearl Bracelet |
Its a good day to find something nice for the wife. And sometimes it happens just right.
Here is a part of a nice gold and fresh water pearl bracelet that popped up just in time.
Notice the pearls are about .75 centimeters long.
I didn't know if it was gold at first. I put it under my Celestron and could see the 14K mark. It is small. There was no way I could have read it without magnification.
It is a beautiful afternoon on the Treasure Coast. I found an web site that says there was snow on the ground of 49 of the 50 states today. Hawaii has snow on the volcano peaks, in case you were wondering about that. Florida is the only state without snow.
Here is the link.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/02/13/snow-cover-usa/5454645/
And Key West has been having nice calm treasure hunting weather so the Dare is heading out to dive the Margarita site just west of the primary scatter.
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| Tiny 14K Mark on the Pearl Bracelet. |
I might take a break from my Reading Beaches 101 series for a couple of reasons. One reason is that it is getting long and I don't know if people are interested in all of that. Also it is developing in my head so quickly that I can't keep up with it and I need to take a break to organize it better. A third reason is that I realized that I am starting to go way beyond the 101 level.
The spot price of gold this morning hit $1320 before ten o'clock this morning. It is on a run.
Silver is up this morning more than gold on a percentage basis.
This little bracelet is the kind of thing that is not easy to detect because the amount of metal is so small. And individual links or beads, even if in a chain, are much harder to detect than a single lump of similar mass.
A lot of the time a chain is found because of a medallion or something on it. I believe a lot of detectorists would miss most gold chains if they don't have a medallion or something larger on them than the links.
Even a small gold band will be hard to detect if it is broken. The same band is easier to detect when it is not broken.
If you've never done it, try some experiments like that. You might be surprised how hard it is to detect gold chains and broken bands.
The pearl bracelet is the kind of thing that can often be found in the swash. It would go with the more easily moved and lighter thinner materials even though part (a small part) of it is gold.
The pearls are similar to small shells. Being hooked together though, the item would move differently than individual pearls.
It is a really nice looking little bracelet. Looks like new. Doesn't look like it has been tumbled.
I guess I am back to Reading Beaches 101 material again. I didn't mean to do that, but it is important stuff and determines where things will be found.
A lot of people miss watches too. Watches often are found in areas with lighter materials. Watches can have air trapped under the face or in the watdh and that will make them ride higher in water. They can also be composed of a variety of materials causing detector signals that some might pass over.
The surf is only about one foot on the Treasure Coast today. The afternoon is beautiful.
It is the type of day where you can go out and watch how things move at the edge of the water. Not much will move, but you can see enough to learn a few things.
I might take a break from the Reading Beaches series for a day or so.
Happy Valentine's Day,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
