Posted by Billy on March 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Hi Everyone,
Firstly I am so sorry for my delay, things have been very hectic since I last wrote on my Metal Detecting Blog.
In the last three months I have been in a new business, I just bought a small country Post Office / Newsagency / Cafe and Nursery and it has just kept me away from writing my metal detecting stories and doing lost ring recovery searches.
But I still have been busy metal detecting and bottle hunting when ever I get the chance.
I have found a lot of things lately, heaps of old coins, a couple of old rings, a beautiful very old Western Australian Police Force Button, a Victory Medal from World War Two, heaps of old silver cutlery, old antique toys, and much more.
So this coming weekend I am going to get my act together, photo graph all of my recent metal detecting finds and write a story about all of my recent metal detecting hunts.
So please bare with me, and stay tuned, I’ll have some new stories coming your way soon!
I have included a couple pics of some recent finds and some old bottles I have been cleaning lately.
Posted by Billy on December 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment
A few days ago I wrote how I received a phonecall from Katie who lost her Silver St Christophers Pendant, Silver Necklaces And a Silver Ring at Scarborough Beach near Perth Western Australia.
I did a 3 to 4 hour search of the area where she had lost the ring, but could not find it. So that night I asked on my blog if anyone who maybe had previously metal detected the area may have already found it to contact me.
Well yesterday I got a phone call from a friend Dick who told me his friend may just have found Katies lost jewellery which is fantastic news.
He informed me his friend found a Silver St Christophers Pendant, Silver Necklaces And a Silver Ring on Scarborough Beach the day Katie lost it.
I told Katie of this great news, and now she has to wait a couple of weeks to be reunited with her lost jewellery as the metal detector guy is away working up North, so that is great news for Katie and for my blog that someone out there has the decency to return Katies treasured jewellery.
Who ever it is who found, a big thank you for me! Your honesty is beyond words.
Filed under Book Me, Client Searches, Inspiration, Jewellery, Lost Rings, Metal Detecting, Pendants, Perth Metal Detector Hire, Rings, Silver, Silver Rings, Successful Searches, Western Australia Lost and Found Jewellery · Tagged with Lost and Found, Lost Jewellery, Pendants, Perth Metal Detector Hire, silver ring, Silver Rings, St Christophers Pendant
Posted by Billy on October 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Stubbs Park Sporting Pavillion - Dumbleyung
Today I decided to do a bit of coin shooting at my local sportsground – Stubbs Park – Dumbleyung.
Stubb’s Park is probably around 80 – 90 years old give or take a few years, and has been put to great use in those years, ranging from many sporting activities, such as Horse racing, Horse Trots, Australian Rules Football, Netball, Hockey, Cricket, Tennis and much more. The park is also used for our towns annual show, the Dumbleyung Gymkhana, so there is plenty of reasons to go there and hunt for lost coins.
Sports Ground and Fair Ground Metal Detecting Finds
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Unfortunately the ground is rock hard there, and most of it has been cover in bitumen and tar, so finding coins was rather hard.
But I did find a couple of nice old coins, and a few bucks worth of dollars.
This is what I found today.
- 1952 Australian Shilling
- 1953 Australian Shilling
- Numerous Modern Day Australian Coins
- Small Steel Button “Militaires Equipments”
1952 Australian Shilling
Posted by Billy on September 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment
In April this year I wrote a metal detecting story on how I found a old knife made by Henry Clegg – Click to see story.
Recently I received an email from Darryl in England who is a relative of Henry Clegg and is doing some family history on the Clegg Family in England and he gave me some great informtion about Henry Clegg.
Henry Clegg & Sons was a smallish manufacturer as were most of the Sheffield manufacturers. Many of these were family concerns as was Cleggs. Henry was born in 1818 and called himself a “table knife cutler” from 1841 onwards. Whether he was self employed or worked for someone else is unknown. He called himself a “table knife manufaturer” in 1881 employing “30 men and 2 girls” (one of these girls was his daughter, Florence and one of the men was his son John). The name Clegg has been associated with making cultlery in Sheffield from as early as 1692.
Your knife bears the engraving VR which means it was made between 1837 and 1901 – Queen Victoria’s reign. Henry’s second son John was born in 1847 so the name Henry Clegg and Sons would not apply before this date.
Henry lived at modest addresses until the 1860s when he moved “upmarket” so I would estimate that your knife was made in the latter part of the 19th century.
The handle of your knife looks the same length as the blade in your photo. With this and the sharp angle of the blad it might have been a larger knife (carver etc) and ground down in later years for another use.
I don’t know if Henry Clegg was large enough to export his goods. It’s most likely that the knife was taked to Oz by a Brit who emigrated there.
Cleggs worked from several factories at different times. I’ve attached a photo of one of the later ones. Several similar manufacturers shared the premises. Joseph Rogers occupoed the factory at the time of the photo. The factory is in the foreground just behind the two buses.
Henry Clegg Tombstone & Gravesite
Henry Clegg - Cuter Factory
Thanks for the great info Darryl!
Posted by Billy on July 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment
A couple days ago I decided to head back to this old australian homestead where I had previous luck before metal detecting.
But instead of metal detecting inside the remains of the house, I decided to widen my area of span of detecting to a wider area, which was outside of the ruins, around 15 metres from the entrance to the house.
The reason I did this because as I walked towards to homstead I had my metal detector turned on, and pointed downloads towards the ground. I was not swinging the coil, I just walked in a straight normal walking line with the detector by my side, and just by pure chance it sent off a coin possible coin signal. So I swung the detector back over the area where the signal went off and it was a positve reading.
So I dug the area and around 15cm under the soft soil I found my first coin.
Where I found the coin, is a farm paddock which is used to grow wheat, barley, oats and probably lupins, and the paddock is usually cropped every couple of years. This year is the off year where the paddock is given time off. So obviously the paddock is ploughed heavily or “ripped up” as we call it in Australia.
I ended up finding a heap of old coins in a very small area, so I will definetely be heading back there in the very near future.
Here are the coins I ended up finding. Feel free to click on the links to see the photos.
Australian Pennys
Australian Three Pence
Australian Six Pence
So my tip of the day … when you are walking towards an possible detecting site, such as an old house, have your detector turned on, pointed towards the ground, you don’t have to swing it, just walk, and you never know your luck, you may find something on your walk there, just like I did … a heap of coins!
Filed under Australian Pre Decimal Coins, Coin Shooting, Coins, Finds Catalogue, Metal Detecting, Metal Detecting Photos, Metal Detecting Tips, Old Houses, Penny, Silver, Six Pence, Three Pence · Tagged with 1923 Penny, 1942 penny, 1943 penny, 1943 Three Pence, 1944 Penny, 1947 Penny, 1949 Three Pence, 1953 Three Pence, 1959 Six Pence, 1959 Three Pence, 1961 Penny, Metal Detecting Tips, old homes, Pre-Decimal
Posted by Billy on July 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment
My New Polaris Big Boss 6 Wheeler
Well it has been a while since I last wrote, why?
Because it’s been bloody too cold to metal detect!
Thats my excuse, but seriously I have been a bit too slack, yes because it has really been cold, but also because I have been doing other things, my other interests, such as going bottle hunting quite a lot.
But over the last couple of days I have been getting back into my metal detecting and it has been bringing me some good finds which I will write about over the next couple of days.
Around four weeks ago I bought myself a brand spanking new Polaris Big Boss 6 Wheeler, something I have been aiming to get since I left the Royal Australian Navy 18 months ago, which will help me get to places where my car just can’t get to.
It is a great machine, but the very first day I used it, I had a major problem which really pissed me off.
On the assembly line at Polaris somewhere likely in America, they did not do their job properly, and I found this out the worst way possible.
I was around 40kms from town in the middle of nowhere and all of a sudden the instrument panel started flashing “overheating engine” and I started to panic saying to myself “why does this always happen to me? Buy something brand new and the day you get it, it breaks!”
I stopped the bike, and found out that there was a “Coolant Leak” there was coolant leaking from underneath the bike, and I had no choice but to ride the bike home, very slowly with the engine light flashing on and off warning me about the overheating engine.
Thankfully I got home ok, cold and pissed off.
The next day I did a inspection underneath the bike and saw that a “tiny bit of a gasket” protruding from the water pump (See attached photo)
Man, I paid $16,000 for a Polaris, which is supposed to be one of the best quads in the world, and they stuff up my bike on the assembly line!
How the hell would they miss that gasket sticking out of the water pump?
Anyhow it is under warranty and I took the bike back to the dealer and it was fixed straight away, and thankfully no serious damage done (that I am away of)
Anyhow this happened four weeks ago, I am going to write to Polaris about this and see what they have to say for themselves.
Anyhow, it is still a great bike, gets me to places I have never been to before and it’s great to be back writing about my stories at
LostTreasure.com.au
Polaris Assembly Line Stuff Up! Protruding Waterpump Gasket
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