Tasmaniacs Trash 'N Treasure.

[Smoky bandit]

Nice find Dave :Y:

 

[Dave79]

I'm already banned from digging in the lawn till winter. ... and the vege patch is all hunted out

 

[Dave79]

Well I'll be stuffed. Another one of the number 11 buttons turned up this week, a good couple of days horse ride from the last one. This one has the makers mark still legible, Gowans, Gerrard st, London so it must be an English regimental number.

 

[Clodmaster]

Nice button Dave. I'm planning to hunt for buttons this weekend at a site where I've ignored some of the lower TIDs in the past.

 

[Smoky bandit]

Another nice find :Y:

 

[indi]

Hi Dave tracked the button maker to a James McGowan 32 Gerrard street london looking at Post office directories active in the 1830s and 1840s

 

[indi]

Ok very weird looks like its early 1800s Napoleonic war and belong too a Polish regiment why a english maker making buttons for the enemy at the time i dont know

 

[Dave79]

Some days you're the dog but this weekend I was definitely the fire hydrant.

The coins were crusty,

the relics were crumbling, then I dug up a European wasps nest and got tagged by 5 of the bloody things. Then to add insult to injury I got back to camp and discovered that the neighbors pigs had escaped and eaten my snuffer bottle containing my weekends meagre takings that I left down by the dam.
At least I got this nice little mirror thingy.

 

[Sandta]

So your now stocked up on pork right erfect:

 

[Dave79]

Mmmmm, golden crackling, sounds like good payback.

 

[golddiggerart]

Pig on a spit followed by a nice hot coffee and cake. :Y: :coffee: :cake:

 

[Eldorado]

Could the mirror thingy be a rug beater?How big is it?

 

[Clodmaster]

So is it likely the snuffer bottle will re-emerge out the other end of the pig? And has it got much gold in it? Maybe you could run your detector over the pigs and find out the culprit!

 

[Dave79]

Too small to be a rugbeater I reckon.
And if I get close enough to those pigs to run a detector over them they will have an ass full of buckshot already! Don't think it's worth panning pigshit for about .15 of a gram either.

 

[Eldorado]

Ok,too small to be a rug beater but Im not convinced it was a mirror either.

 

[Sandta]

Ok,too small to be a rug beater but Im not convinced it was a mirror either.

Unless the fabled Fukawee tribe got really lost .... and ended up over here layful:

 

[Dave79]

An oldie that cleaned up pretty well with a good week soaking in water and some careful surgery with a toothpick.

 

[Detecta]

Nice find. You shouldn't use tap water on copper coins, Chlorine is corrosive and affects/dulls the green pantena. Distilled water leaves a better finish.

 

[Dave79]

Got out to an old townsite yesterday and managed to pick up another different Queen Victoria diamond jubilee medallion.

Also a little brooch and a pile of lead seals.

 

[Dave79]

Got out a couple of days last week and found a couple of little miners hut sites hiding in some thick scrub and blackberry thickets. Really hard to swing even the 6" coil and a few spots I poked it into I was really hoping that I didn't get a signal. Managed a few silvers, a target practice penny and a cute little locally made pocket watch winder, and plenty of prickles that I'm still picking out.