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Encrusted Musket Barrel as Found.
Find and photo by Will R.
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If you saw yesterday's post early, maybe you didn't see the link I added later in the day. That link was to a old post in which Will R. talked about some nice finds and how he made a mold of the gun barrel shown above. Here is what Will said.
I love your last post. I ran into a similar situation last year. I was
detecting a private site on the intercoastal when I found a brass
butt plate, then the side plate and one of the ramrod tubes. Then it hit me...
where's the barrel? Soon I found the barrel because it had
one of the ramrod tubes stuck in the EO chunk. I took it home and did as I do with most EO's and put it in a tub
of fresh H2O. The next day I noticed the end of the
EO was oozing sludge. I figured this was the end of the barrel. I
gently flushed the end of the EO with water and then I knew I had rare opportunity. This was a perfect mold of the metal
barrel that once was there. I carefuly flushed the rest of the mud and sludge out and made sure it was clear of all metal. Now here's where the fun
began. I used fiberglass resin and made a perfect mold
of the barrel. Here are some pics of it. You're welcome to use them if you like.
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Finished Copy Made From Mold.
By Will R.
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If you used the link yesterday, you might have already seen this, but I thought it was worth posting again for those who might have missed it.
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| Surfaces on Recently Dug Dime and Quarter That I'll Be Cleaning. |
I'm going to use diluted Muriatic acid. I'm doing four dimes and three quarters, all having a black patina very much like the dime and quarter shown in the photos above. Some are a little worse than others, but all are similar.
You hear that you should never clean coins. There is no danger with these coins since they have no collector value other than the melt value. They are already damaged beyond what any body would pay a premium for. Therefore there is no danger of actually hurting the value.
Make sure you know that is the case before you clean any coin. In the case of possibly valuable coins, definitely don't clean them until you know for sure.
I hope to have some photos for you as things progress.
You hear that you should never clean coins. There is no danger with these coins since they have no collector value other than the melt value. They are already damaged beyond what any body would pay a premium for. Therefore there is no danger of actually hurting the value.
Make sure you know that is the case before you clean any coin. In the case of possibly valuable coins, definitely don't clean them until you know for sure.
I hope to have some photos for you as things progress.
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I heard another way to remove heavy rust from iron objects. On the Antiques Roadshow it was said that a fellow found a clump of rust and buried it in his barn in horse manure. It looked like it did a good job of removing the rust from what turned out to be a medieval key.
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The price of gold has been really flying for the past week or two. It went up another $28 per ounce in the past couple of days. That puts it close to $1430 and moving.
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I've commented about some of the fake elements of some of the "reality" treasure shows. I realized the other day that I actually hope that some of the other so-called reality shows are fake. It would be sad to think that people are actually like that. I could list a number of shows that I've seen enough of to actually hope that they are really fake.
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It's been established that people who spend more time in parks and other natural settings tend to report higher levels of health and happiness, but new research shows there's actually a magic number for it.
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The price of gold has been really flying for the past week or two. It went up another $28 per ounce in the past couple of days. That puts it close to $1430 and moving.
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I've commented about some of the fake elements of some of the "reality" treasure shows. I realized the other day that I actually hope that some of the other so-called reality shows are fake. It would be sad to think that people are actually like that. I could list a number of shows that I've seen enough of to actually hope that they are really fake.
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It's been established that people who spend more time in parks and other natural settings tend to report higher levels of health and happiness, but new research shows there's actually a magic number for it.
According to a study published this week in the journal Nature Scientific Reports, spending 120 minutes a week strolling a tree-lined street or sitting by a lake can greatly enhance a person's overall sense of well-being. Less time didn't yield any significant benefit, the research showed...
Here's the link.
https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/People-who-spend-more-time-outdoors-lead-more-14025910.php
As always you can quibble with the conclusions and details of the article, as I'm so prone to do, but isn't that one thing we all like about metal detecting or treasure hunting. You have to be out there.
There is something about feeling the sun, wind and rain. I like being barefoot. I like feeling the grass or sand beneath my feet, and will accept the risk of fire ants or other dangers. I like when it is stormy and nature is getting a little frisky. You feel nature even more.
On the other hand, there is the garbage and pollution littering the out doors.
Millions of tons of plastic enter the oceans every year, polluting our seas, littering our beaches and endangering wildlife.
Plastic can take centuries to break down, and instead of quietly disappearing beneath the waves, it has a way of coming back to haunt us.
Almost 1 million shoes and over 370,000 toothbrushes were among more than 400 million pieces of plastic recently found washed up on a remote group of islands in the Indian Ocean.
See https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/24/health/plastic-pollution-rivers-oceans-scn-intl/index.html
The litter makes me a little sad. It intrudes on nature, and makes it a little less "natural." Litter seems to intrude upon nature and removes some of the healthy-giving and aesthetic benefits.
One of the side benefits of the dig-everything and take-everything philosophy that I encourage, is that it leaves the environment a little better than you found it.
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The price of gold continues to rise, going up another $28 per ounce in the past couple of days. That puts it close to $1430.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
