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One I missed, probably due to the Pandemic. The largest Bronze-Age hoard found in London.
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Having found - in the garbage - a silk needlepoint of 2 eagles grappling over an American Flag - obviously old, (Google Image states Filipino, 100+ years) - lousy condition, I take it on myself to reprice and hang.
The manager finds it, thinks it's worth even more, and squirrels it away in the back.
Later, another of the volunteers finds a Native American Basket, probably SW Arizona/New Mexico - priced at 50 cents.
The manager looks at this, hums and haws, comes up with a price of $6.00. The volunteer puts it in her pile of treasures.
She's getting one hell of a deal, it's old, at least 100 years, and looking at similar online they go for $100's to $1000. Again, the condition isn't great, but the item is.
So, there are still treasures to be found...
Meanwhile, Madge is working on her next item, google-lensing a resin angel, made in China, $20.00 isn't too much, is it?
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I've watched quite a few of the videos, in the UK, where they recover all manner of interesting historic stuff, like antique swords and armour, and then in the US where they usually find dodgy used firearms and knives and shopping carts, scooters and bikes.
It's a sport with a high trash-low treasure ratio.
Which I'm kinda drawn to it but have so far resisted. While I know there's spots on the old ferry landing in Ainsworth that would yield treasures, I'm also annoyed by the things it wouldn't get - silver, gold, old glass patent medicine bottles, etc, etc.
But this might just change my thinking...
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A brief summary of the wealth that lies unclaimed in the Asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Link: Wiki on Psyche 16
Link: Wiki on Asteroid Mining
Note that Psyche 16 is an M-Type Asteroid, being comprised almost entirely of heavy metals. Most of the precious metals on earth have already sunk through the crust and into the core, the possibility or theory then that Psyche 16 is a relic core from a planet implies that it is laden with precious metals.
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Another YouTube Channel I most definitely shouldn't subscribe to...
I love how he's working old ground, tailings that have become now an orchard, and it's just the zen walk interrupted to pick up gold nuggets...