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Hatters new chapter - My finds from the North Island
1864hatter  
Posted : Monday, 8 September 2014 8:46:53 PM(UTC)
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Hey mate, yeah I'm well pleased with the old beast. Now I just have to go find my own sovereign. Good you are enjoying the show.
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Posted : Monday, 8 September 2014 8:47:47 PM(UTC)
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Hey mate, yeah I'm well pleased with the old beast. Now I just have to go find my own sovereign. Good you are enjoying the show.
And now....On sandy beaches and muddy soil, rings and coins await my coil!
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Posted : Sunday, 21 September 2014 1:45:30 PM(UTC)
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So I have not been having any luck on the ring front for 4 trips now. Just a couple of junk ones is all.
Today I braved the heavy rain and even hail for a couple of hours but hat to be satisfied with some coins....
I did find this gaming token known as a put and take. Its like a spinning top, which ever side faces up when it stops spinning and falls over dictates what the player has to do. I assume it was played with tokens of some sort.
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Posted : Sunday, 21 September 2014 1:58:25 PM(UTC)
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Posted : Monday, 22 September 2014 12:07:08 AM(UTC)
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Hey bud cool find. Ive got one my self and when I researched about it I found they were used in the trenches of ww2 to pass time and they usually played for smokes. Looks in good condition.
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Posted : Monday, 22 September 2014 6:23:21 PM(UTC)
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Hey mate, really nice find. It's one of the items on my bucket list still to find....nice job.
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Posted : Sunday, 28 September 2014 11:31:05 AM(UTC)
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So I had a bit of a hunt yesterday, was flat out digging targets the hole time. Resulted in the things below along with about a dozen rubbish coins. the gold ring is large but light at 2.8g. A massive amount of bullets and other items. A ring with anchor on it and a thin silver ring, also the mystery ring from my other post.
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Posted : Sunday, 5 October 2014 1:29:35 PM(UTC)
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A mixed bag from two hunts at the beach. A nice 14k ring, silver bangle and an 'eye ring' yesterday and some assorted goodies today. I happened to find the worlds cleanest pennies today. A small 9ct locket a gold? dolphin thing and a J.M Mackey Auckland, Maker broach looking thing. Any ideas what that might be? Also a couple of silver coins.... All good

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Posted : Monday, 6 October 2014 9:30:22 AM(UTC)
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Congrats on the GOLD find, very nice.

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Posted : Monday, 27 October 2014 7:39:59 PM(UTC)
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So I have had the pleasure of finding a gold ring with some hallmarks. Now, where are all those ring detectives? Anyone know what the laast letter might be? I think the anchor means Birmingham. task force 43 - http://www.navalhistory....ute-operation-deepfreeze

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Posted : Monday, 27 October 2014 8:08:13 PM(UTC)
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From what I can see it looks like a capital H with scrolls which makes it 1982 made in Birmingham. If its a capital K with scrolls it is 1985. Hard to tell in photo as it looks a bit worn but hope this helps. If you goggle Brittish hallmarks you can usually find a good table of hall marks going way back with dates and provinces etc.
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Posted : Monday, 27 October 2014 8:34:22 PM(UTC)
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So I managed to top off the weekend with some good finds. Managed to get down to the beach for a couple of hours and fished out these goodies. the St Christophers pendant is cool. The task force 43 pendant is interesting see the text below. Oh and a couple of choice 9ct rings. Now goota go back to work tomorrow...
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Posted : Monday, 27 October 2014 9:08:51 PM(UTC)
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the rings. follow this link for info on the task force 43 pendant http://www.navalhistory....ute-operation-deepfreeze

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Posted : Tuesday, 28 October 2014 6:04:20 PM(UTC)
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Wow, you getting some great finds there. What depths are you getting down too?
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Posted : Tuesday, 28 October 2014 7:39:09 PM(UTC)
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Hey there chrischch. Most of my finds are from less than a foot in depth. I sort of get a foot on pennies but don't find too many of them. I run my detector in the auto sensitivity setting which creates a nice smooth threshold. If I ran it at max sensitivity I could get more depth but its also quite noisy. A lot of the noise is due to the quite different make up of the beaches I detect. Its basically quartz shelly sand with plenty of iron rich basalt gravel. If you use disc and there is enough basalt it can actually cancel out non ferrous signals. Anyway I think the items I got this Sunday were from around the 10cm mark or less, but I was hunting an eroded patch.
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Posted : Saturday, 1 November 2014 6:25:09 PM(UTC)
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Detecting at the beach... need I say more?
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Posted : Saturday, 1 November 2014 7:14:49 PM(UTC)
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So the old watch with name etc is a rolex? If so then great find! Any chance it will be repairable? The other finds I would be stoked with individually but to get that lot in one go is doing great!
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Posted : Saturday, 1 November 2014 7:21:59 PM(UTC)
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There is a watch attached yes and it works fine. Was found in the water. Will take it to dealer to confirm authenticity. Have extensively googled it and can't find anything to suggest it's fake. Will keep you posted.
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Posted : Saturday, 1 November 2014 7:23:10 PM(UTC)
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Oh and no the old watch is another I found today.
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Posted : Sunday, 2 November 2014 1:10:48 AM(UTC)
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wow doing great up there matt..well done on the finds
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