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Brian (briguy) posted an update Saturday, Mar 2, 2013, 7:39am EST, 12 years, 8 months ago
Old secrets revealed!
Yeah, a thick coating of global warming dust (snow) and 20 degree days are keeping me from digging up more cool stuff (metal detector). However old mysteries are still being solved! Specifically the mystery of the gold locket. First off the gold locked isn't really gold, its gold plated brass, 2 1/2' long, 1" wide. All over it are hand scrolled little flowers and hummingbirds. My best guess is about 1880 for its age. It was found 6" down on the side of an old toboggan hill, and after i cleaned out my shorts (initially thinking it was about an ounce of real gold), we could hear something rattling around in it. Diamonds?....Rubies? Despite hearing it, the latch was gunked shut by more then a century underground. So we dropped it into a bottle of methanol and left it be, once again counting on time to fix things.
Well it worked!....I tried the latch today.....and *snick*.....it opens up like the day it was made. .....and inside???....a lock of hair crimped together with a bit of copper wire. Ewwwww. All that patient waiting and uncommon for me - a thoughful/careful approach (I wanted to jimmy it with a screw driver on day #1.....but Mrs Briguy said no). What's our reward?
A moldy 19th century lock of hair from some dead guy. :o(
OR..... as it'll be listed on EBay....quite POSSIBLY......Josephine's locket, ....complete with Napoleon's hair!! :o)
