Metal Detecting discussions and finds

Ha! Stayed there two nights ago on my way to Tucson. Gonna go through there tomorrow or Sunday on my way home.

 

i havent dug anything since putting house up for sale

 

Lol we will prob be down that way monday...

 

So, my friend and his wife invited me to a BBQ and he let me MD his yard. I found these in roughly 30min or thereabouts.

From top to bottom, left to right:
copper but if some sort
1981 (memorial)
3x dimes (NOTE: can't see the dates)
1x statehood quarter (NOTE: can't tell what)


The dimes I can't see the dates because I don't have my magnifier and his doesn't magnify good enough.

The quarter, is definitely a statehood, but can't see it clear enough.

Without tumbling the coins, this is actually the best they will clean up.

Anyways, pretty good finds within about 30min. Again, sun went down nasty quick.

 

Cool! That's good times!

 

How you gonna beat BBQ and coin shooting!

 

Man, once we get down there stop in kingman,

 

Absolutely!

Looks like there are a few old ghost towns down that way.....

 

Yeah all over! Its going to be fun exploring. They have mining castaway thats supposed to be good finds also,

 

Pretty nice climate in Kingman, and lots of open country.

 

great!

 

These items were detected in one trash barrel in one houses garbage, there was also a very cool old scrapbook that I'm still going through.

The earrings in the box are marked 14k, as is that ring with the green stones in the box. The 1904 "Football" (soccer to us in the USA) medal is marked "silver", the religion medal is marked "silver - Germany" on the back, as is the cool bracelet with the marking "hand hammered sheet coin silver" on the back.

 

The cool bracelet with the marking "hand hammered sheet coin silver" on the back.


Edit: This posting with the description on the back of the bracelet got me to investigate this item deeper and this is what I just discovered...

Native American Turquoise jewelry began showing up in Navajo Jewelry around 1880, which was shortly after they began working with Silver. The first Vintage Turquoise Jewelry made by the Navajo Indians was fairly crude in today's standards as they made their Jewelry in open fire pits with bellows and ancient tools. Early antique pieces of Turquoise Jewelry were made by melting Silver coins, pouring them into ingots and hammering the ingots out into sheet and wire to be made into Jewelry. Vintage Turquoise Jewelry made from ingots is now very rare, highly collected and expensive.

If you want to learn more about this native Americain jewelry history check this out. https://www.durangosilver.com/vintage-turquoise-jewelry.html

 

That's interesting. I appreciate turquoise and silver Native jewelry.

 

This video goes into more detail to identify older turquoise bracelets. The one I found doesn't have any turquoise stones which I thought might mean a lesser valuable bracelet, but that shows it's an older Navajo bracelet and I don't think it has any protrusions either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpNhxty2wYQ

 

@wilcam47 A beautiful Kingman, AZ sunset this evening!

 

Very cool!

 

That's a neat description for Navajo Silver bracelets. I will have to keep an eye out!

 

Find anything?