Not Your Normal Gold Find....

[madtuna]

Found this a bunch of years ago at either Hillend or Ophir, not sure if I posted it way back, but was just cleaning out my old photobucket account and came across it.

Notice the interlocking join in the last tooth on the right? When sitting correctly you cannot see the join. The craftsmanship back then was amazing.

Upside down you can still see half a tooth.

 

[Goldfield Joe]

That's a good find MT! About ten years ago I found a similar set in an old jewellery box I bought at a garage sale (didn't know it was there until I got home!) They are usually a high carat, mine were tested as 22k, I sold them to a gold buyer for around $800, would be worth a bit more now too :Y:

 

[Dignit]

Keep em as a spare pair of chompers MT. :lol: :lol:

 

[CreviceSucker]

Amazing to look at when you consider thats at least a Days work for a dentist but they didnt have painkillers back then so the poor old dentists had to listen to a whole day of screaming , let alone the effort the screamer put in.

Then you wonder how some dudes gold teeth ended up in the bush ?

 

[geof_junk]

Found by my brother in-law. At a QLD beach back in the 1980s

 

[JD3]

Now why does this thread remind me of this!?

 

[CreviceSucker]

Found by my brother in-law. At a QLD beach back in the 1980s

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1759/1607342363_teeth1.jpg

"I heard from a good sauce" that back in the goldrush days when prospectors were returning overseas there were many hundreds who died when their little dingy would capsize in the waves while rowing out to meet their ship.

If they had gold sewn into the lining of their clothes they would sink pretty quickly.

You have to wonder if the owner of that set of gold teeth met the same fate.

 

[JD3]

Found by my brother in-law. At a QLD beach back in the 1980s

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1759/1607342363_teeth1.jpg

"I heard from a good sauce" that back in the goldrush days when prospectors were returning overseas there were many hundreds who died when their little dingy would capsize in the waves while rowing out to meet their ship.

If they had gold sewn into the lining of their clothes they would sink pretty quickly.

You have to wonder if the owner of that set of gold teeth met the same fate.

Yes I think your on the money there. I cant recall where I read it but too in the early Aus goldrush times many many "very heavy" coffins were sent back by sea to China. Very abnormally, suspiciously heavy coffins, sent back to China :lol: ickshovel:

 

[Rockhunter62]

Found by my brother in-law. At a QLD beach back in the 1980s

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1759/1607342363_teeth1.jpg

"I heard from a good sauce" that back in the goldrush days when prospectors were returning overseas there were many hundreds who died when their little dingy would capsize in the waves while rowing out to meet their ship.

If they had gold sewn into the lining of their clothes they would sink pretty quickly.

You have to wonder if the owner of that set of gold teeth met the same fate.

Yes I think your on the money there. I cant recall where I read it but too in the early Aus goldrush times many many "very heavy" coffins were sent back by sea to China. Very abnormally, suspiciously heavy coffins, sent back to China :lol: ickshovel:

I think that was because of all the rice they had eaten. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Cheers

Doug

 

[JD3]

Found by my brother in-law. At a QLD beach back in the 1980s

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1759/1607342363_teeth1.jpg

"I heard from a good sauce" that back in the goldrush days when prospectors were returning overseas there were many hundreds who died when their little dingy would capsize in the waves while rowing out to meet their ship.

If they had gold sewn into the lining of their clothes they would sink pretty quickly.

You have to wonder if the owner of that set of gold teeth met the same fate.

Yes I think your on the money there. I cant recall where I read it but too in the early Aus goldrush times many many "very heavy" coffins were sent back by sea to China. Very abnormally, suspiciously heavy coffins, sent back to China :lol: ickshovel:

I think that was because of all the rice they had eaten. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Cheers

Doug

You may be right. Rice grown in iron stone ground of the goldfields!
Doh! Now why didnt I think of that!

 

[phantomnosepicker]

Hey madtuna
did you ever play on the vsk aus sailing site....the name rings a bell
all the best
fantomnosepicker