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Sensational find of mould for pendants - Viking age !

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Posted Nov 25, 2009, 08:31:44 am

Hi T-Netters !  Smiley


This might be the most sensational find that I ever made !?  blob10

It is a bronze mould for viking age pendants, most likely of gold or silver.


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Reply To This Topic #1 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 08:38:33 am

Outstanding!  That one must be on the banner!  Congrats on the stellar find!!!

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Reply To This Topic #2 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 08:41:43 am

Outstanding!  That one must be on the banner!  Congrats on the stellar find!!!

Thank you, Romeo !  icon_thumleft

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Reply To This Topic #3 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 08:44:04 am

Banner recommendation sent.   hello2

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Reply To This Topic #4 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 08:48:26 am

What a cool find notworthy Votes in
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Reply To This Topic #5 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 08:58:00 am

That is AWESOME!!! It might be neat to try and make a wax cast of it to see the finished look too. BANNER for sure!!

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Reply To This Topic #6 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 09:02:02 am

OUTSTANDING find!!  Incredible beyond words Smiley
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Reply To This Topic #7 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 09:19:56 am

very cool, that's a chunk of history right there!!

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Reply To This Topic #8 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 09:22:26 am

congrats on a terrific find !!
most definetily banner material !!

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Reply To This Topic #9 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 09:29:35 am

Banner!

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Reply To This Topic #10 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 09:56:06 am

this is a really intresting find, well  done  icon_thumright

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Reply To This Topic #11 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 10:14:39 am

What an amazing find Shocked

Banner!!

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Reply To This Topic #12 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 10:15:44 am

This Is amazing!  What is it made of?  Looks like stone.  BANNER for sure!!!!
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Reply To This Topic #13 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 10:28:32 am

Topside for sure.....WOW...What a great piece of history right there...How did you not stay in the field and find the other piece?    laughing9     Congrats on the beautiful piece.       jgas

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Reply To This Topic #14 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 10:55:48 am

Thank you all !  icon_thumleft


This Is amazing!  What is it made of?  Looks like stone.  BANNER for sure!!!!

The material is, as I wrote, bronze !  hello
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Reply To This Topic #15 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 11:01:26 am

Yes Great Find!  icon_thumleft icon_thumright And I'm fond of bronze molds. headbang And for my spoon mold to be there this one needs to be To I would think. thumbsup  Wink Super Find and should be BANNER WORTHY!  notworthy notworthy notworthy Banner vote from me! thumbsup
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Reply To This Topic #16 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 11:12:47 am

awesome find....what a rary..

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Reply To This Topic #17 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 11:33:48 am

So cool!!!!!!!!!!!! icon_thumright notworthy notworthy notworthy Way to go! BANNER

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Reply To This Topic #18 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 11:48:31 am

What can I say that hasn't already been said.  Other than its a true Museum piece & a great asset for further research.  Just think if we could match up UK found Pendants to that mould!

Love the right angled bar which would have created the hole for the pendant, I wondered how that worked icon_thumright

We need another mould on the banner, my votes in!

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Reply To This Topic #19 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 11:51:50 am

 Shocked Shocked Shocked

I can honestly say...that's one of the best things I have ever seen posted on here notworthy Amazing Shocked

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Reply To This Topic #20 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 11:59:08 am

Historically, you can't get much better of a find than this one!  Top notch museum piece.  A banner for sure is in your future.  Have a back side created and start pumping out some historical pendants!
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Reply To This Topic #21 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 12:00:32 pm

What can I say that hasn't already been said.  Other than its a true Museum piece & a great asset for further research.  Just think if we could match up UK found Pendants to that mould!

Love the right angled bar which would have created the hole for the pendant, I wondered how that worked icon_thumright

We need another mould on the banner, my votes in!
Cru I was just looking at that and guess they inserted something in that slot so that when it was poured it would leave a hole to tatch it to. headbang Very Cool Find Dane!  icon_thumleft  icon_thumright

Reply To This Topic #22 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 12:03:45 pm

What can I say that hasn't already been said.  Other than its a true Museum piece & a great asset for further research.  Just think if we could match up UK found Pendants to that mould!

Love the right angled bar which would have created the hole for the pendant, I wondered how that worked icon_thumright

We need another mould on the banner, my votes in!
Cru I was just looking at that and guess they inserted something in that slot so that when it was poured it would leave a hole to tatch it to. headbang Very Cool Find Dane!  icon_thumleft  icon_thumright
Proberbly Iron...then worked loose while still quite hot dontknow

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Reply To This Topic #23 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 12:12:42 pm

Congrats R&S.jpg
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Reply To This Topic #24 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 12:22:20 pm

wow, that is like cool i wish i had one of those...... really cool

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Reply To This Topic #25 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 12:36:56 pm

fantastic find!!!!!   icon_thumright icon_thumright

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Reply To This Topic #26 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 12:44:51 pm

Awesome find!!!! You've got my BANNER vote

Reply To This Topic #27 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 12:58:58 pm

That sure is a very rare artifact. Big conggratulations for another superfind hello2
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Reply To This Topic #28 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 01:06:34 pm

"It is a bronze mould for viking age pendants, most likely of gold or silver."

Dane, I just realized that it is bronze. Wouldn't bronze have too low a melting point to be used for anything except to cast  tin, pewter, etc? Are you absolutely sure this mold is bronze?



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Reply To This Topic #29 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 01:09:44 pm

My banner vote is in, great to see just a glimpse of how things were made in the past.
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Reply To This Topic #30 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 01:38:15 pm

Now why is that not on the banner???

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Reply To This Topic #31 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 01:43:10 pm

Now why is that not on the banner???

Humm Nice Find But

No Story of When Where Etc.
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See Pic two from the Left on the Banner
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Reply To This Topic #32 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 02:04:12 pm

WOW!!! icon_thumright
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Reply To This Topic #33 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 02:25:50 pm

Awesome find, BANNER FOR SURE!!
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Reply To This Topic #34 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 02:31:22 pm

Now why is that not on the banner???

Humm Nice Find But

No Story of When Where Etc.
Pics hosted on Image Shack
not Posted Directly to Here.
Pics Rectangular.
I Can't Crop & Resize a Rectangular
Picture Square

See Pic two from the Left on the Banner
I Had to Crop the top coins off
Because the Picture was Rectangular.


Sorry, but I do not know how to post pictures directly !
I can make a square picture, if you like.

The find is from my discovered Viking age trading place in Denmark.

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,275482.0.html
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Reply To This Topic #35 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 02:31:39 pm

My banner vote is in,fantastic!!!
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Reply To This Topic #36 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 02:36:37 pm

Fantastic!!!! I love the Vikings, only one loss this year. Go Farve!!!
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Reply To This Topic #37 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 03:38:42 pm

Awesome find, banner for sure  hello2

If I found that I would use it to make a pendant out of lead, or silver, for the thrill of being the first person to use it, in what, a thousand years ?

Amazing stuff being found with detectors  thumbsup

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Reply To This Topic #38 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 06:21:53 pm

wow wtg icon_thumright

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Reply To This Topic #39 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 06:28:12 pm

That is a neat find Dane. This is a cool hobby, look at the history found and saved.
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Reply To This Topic #40 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 06:30:42 pm

wow ----great find
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Reply To This Topic #41 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 06:40:21 pm

That's an awesome find there... BANNER
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Reply To This Topic #42 Posted Nov 25, 2009, 11:11:32 pm

I can not use it to make pendants as it is an ancient artefact and must be given to the museum.
The archaeologist in the museum will make the further investigations on it.

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Reply To This Topic #43 Posted Nov 26, 2009, 02:46:52 am

Now why is that not on the banner???

Humm Nice Find But

No Story of When Where Etc.
Pics hosted on Image Shack
not Posted Directly to Here.
Pics Rectangular.
I Can't Crop & Resize a Rectangular
Picture Square

See Pic two from the Left on the Banner
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Because the Picture was Rectangular.


Sorry, but I do not know how to post pictures directly !
I can make a square picture, if you like.

The find is from my discovered Viking age trading place in Denmark.

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,275482.0.html

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Reply To This Topic #44 Posted Nov 26, 2009, 03:00:54 am

Excellent Museum Find,

                           Congrats, Nova Treasure
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Reply To This Topic #45 Posted Nov 26, 2009, 05:42:38 am

Here is now a square picture of the find !
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Reply To This Topic #46 Posted Nov 26, 2009, 06:58:02 am

Congrats on the well-deserved banner!
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Reply To This Topic #47 Posted Nov 26, 2009, 07:00:59 am

Congrats on the Banner and the awesome relic  hello2

Was it found at the site on Aeroe?
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Reply To This Topic #48 Posted Nov 26, 2009, 07:18:14 am

Help me visualize this. Would there be another half to this mold, or, would it be poured flat? 
The top part looks like a "sprue" and the cross piece a "riser" which would mean there would be another half to the mold.

Awesome find!

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Reply To This Topic #49 Posted Nov 26, 2009, 07:21:01 am

Super neat find, congratulations on making the banner & the find!
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Reply To This Topic #50 Posted Nov 26, 2009, 07:32:32 am

WOW! Fab thumbsup

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Reply To This Topic #51 Posted Nov 26, 2009, 07:35:29 am

Congratulations on a well deserved banner! As others have said, this is definately a museum piece!  

Dane, I've been wondering how a bronze mold might have been used in the process to create ornaments which had higher melting points then the mold, such as silver and gold. From what I've read, silver, gold, and other metals with higher melting points would destroy a mold made of a lower melting point substance such as bronze. Anyway, it seems that during he Viking age many ornaments of gold were formed using the lost wax process. It might be possible that medalions such as this which a mold suggests were "mass produced", were made using the lost wax process also, but the process began with wax models formed in a bronze mold such as this.  Then the wax product from your mold would go on to be used in the lost wax process??

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Reply To This Topic #52 Posted Nov 26, 2009, 08:06:39 am

I'm so glad this ended up on the banner. 


Congratulations on a Stellar find!   thumbsup

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Reply To This Topic #53 Posted Nov 26, 2009, 08:12:59 am

Congratulations on a well deserved banner! As others have said, this is definately a museum piece!  

Dane, I've been wondering how a bronze mold might have been used in the process to create ornaments which had higher melting points then the mold, such as silver and gold. From what I've read, silver, gold, and other metals with higher melting points would destroy a mold made of a lower melting point substance such as bronze. Anyway, it seems that during he Viking age many ornaments of gold were formed using the lost wax process. It might be possible that medalions such as this which a mold suggests were "mass produced", were made using the lost wax process also, but the process began with wax models formed in a bronze mold such as this.  Then the wax product from your mold would go on to be used in the lost wax process??

That is indeed a possibility, and I tend to say, that would be the purpose of this mould !!  icon_thumleft

An other aspect could be pendants made of lead, which are also known from that time about 8-900 AD.

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Reply To This Topic #54 Posted Nov 26, 2009, 08:41:53 am

Congratulations on a well deserved banner! As others have said, this is definately a museum piece!  

Dane, I've been wondering how a bronze mold might have been used in the process to create ornaments which had higher melting points then the mold, such as silver and gold. From what I've read, silver, gold, and other metals with higher melting points would destroy a mold made of a lower melting point substance such as bronze. Anyway, it seems that during he Viking age many ornaments of gold were formed using the lost wax process. It might be possible that medalions such as this which a mold suggests were "mass produced", were made using the lost wax process also, but the process began with wax models formed in a bronze mold such as this.  Then the wax product from your mold would go on to be used in the lost wax process??

That is indeed a possibility, and I tend to say, that would be the purpose of this mould !!  icon_thumleft

An other aspect could be pendants made of lead, which are also known from that time about 8-900 AD.

 hello coffee2

 It seems to me that they would not need to cast a wax piece with the hole for the pendant to hang from as that would easily be made after taking it out of the mold.  dontknow   
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Reply To This Topic #55 Posted Nov 26, 2009, 09:47:31 am

I apologize and regret not seeing your post earlier.  I would have been proud to nominate this magnificent find for the banner.

Absolutely a historical discovery...
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Reply To This Topic #56 Posted Nov 26, 2009, 11:59:08 am

Beautiful mold, congrats!  One of the best finds I have seen in a long time by a detector.  HH, Mike
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Reply To This Topic #57 Posted Nov 26, 2009, 12:21:19 pm

Fantastic find Way to go. Jimbob
*************** WHAT YOU DO WITH THE FINDS YOU DIG UP IS YOUR BUSINESS AND NO ONE ELSES, IGNORE ANYONE ON A SOAPBOX TRYING TO PREACH OTHERWISE! **************

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Orlando, Fl
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Reply To This Topic #58 Posted Nov 26, 2009, 03:41:42 pm

Fantastic find, center piece of any collection........ icon_thumright



All posts begin with "In my opinion"
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Seymour Johnson AFB NC
Detector used Detector(s) Used - Etrac,Vaquero, Cibola, Minlab Excal and a vibra probe 580

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Class Ring Found & Returned - Another Class Ring Found & Returned!
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Reply To This Topic #59 Posted Nov 26, 2009, 05:03:41 pm

Extremely historic find. Truly a banner find!!

God and country.
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Middlesex County, New Jersey
Detector used Detector(s) Used - Whites DFX w/ Sunray DX-1 probe and Minelab Excalibur 1000


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Reply To This Topic #60 Posted Nov 26, 2009, 07:18:28 pm

Congrats on the find and the banner.   Would love to see a wax casting of the pendant.

NJ
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Jersey Cape
Detector used Detector(s) Used - Fisher 1265X & CZ-7

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Colonial Finds - 1875-S Twenty Cent Piece - Half Dimes
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Reply To This Topic #61 Posted Nov 26, 2009, 08:06:44 pm

 Dane,  I bet you will get some inquiries from the big boy's in Denmark and Norway !   That is an amazing pendant mould,  Shocked    Vikings     ,  then likey ,late 8th or 9th century relic.. Fantastic Shocked Congrats on banner ,   Hope U have found early retirement $$!!    Grreat!!  thumbsup

Gimme a break *** I have bad days too.
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Reply To This Topic #62 Posted Nov 26, 2009, 08:52:08 pm

All I can say is, WOW!  Nicely done, sir!
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Canada
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Reply To This Topic #63 Posted Nov 27, 2009, 09:16:10 pm

Sorry, I just saw this now...

Way to go Dane!!  This is an outstanding find!!  Weel done.   hello2
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Reply To This Topic #64 Posted Nov 28, 2009, 05:43:53 am

Kind of random question:

Did you use the tesoro Vaquero to find this...?

I have the Vaquero narrowed down to one of my 2 or 3 choices for my first detector...have heard nothing but outstanding things about it....

congrats on the find
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Norway
Detector used Detector(s) Used - XP Goldmaxx Power.

Reply To This Topic #65 Posted Nov 28, 2009, 06:23:15 am

Fantastic find, congrats.  icon_thumleft

Det vi vet er så uendelig lite mot det som har hendt. Arkeologen er som den som går langs en strand og finner småtterier, skyllet i land fra et forsvunnet skib. Men selve skibet som gikk i dypet med menneskene får han aldri se.

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East Coast
Detector used Detector(s) Used - Metrotech

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Counterfeit V-Nickle Mold
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Reply To This Topic #66 Posted Nov 28, 2009, 09:38:13 am

That's Great - Dane  Roll Eyes
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Remontoir "15 Rubis" Pocket Watch
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Reply To This Topic #67 Posted Nov 28, 2009, 01:27:49 pm

Congrats! Very special find ! icon_thumleft
1851 O Half Dime

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Southeast Missouri
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Reply To This Topic #68 Posted Nov 28, 2009, 02:15:19 pm

Killer find my friend!
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DENMARK
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Norse God Face - Viking Age Sword Amulet - Viking-Age Pendant Mold - German Gold-Gulden Coin, circa 1480
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Reply To This Topic #69 Posted Nov 29, 2009, 01:55:32 am

Thank you all !  icon_thumleft

Kind of random question:

Did you use the tesoro Vaquero to find this...?

I have the Vaquero narrowed down to one of my 2 or 3 choices for my first detector...have heard nothing but outstanding things about it....

congrats on the find

Yes, it was found with my Vaquero !!  headbang


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Reply To This Topic #70 Posted Nov 29, 2009, 05:21:52 am

excellent..only confirms that me being non-impulsive and taking time to research my first detector paid off...can't way to get my 'V' !
Congrats again on the great find...

BTW I hear all the signals sound the same on the Cowboy....
or at least similar...once you learn the machine are you able to tell when the target is something greater than tabs/trash...or is it truly a ding and dig?
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Reply To This Topic #71 Posted Nov 29, 2009, 06:11:29 am

Wow! What an awesome find. Congrats on finding it and making the banner.  thumbsup

wav
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Cheshire, Mass
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Reply To This Topic #72 Posted Dec 01, 2009, 01:09:44 pm

Great find and congrats on banner!!  icon_thumleft

HH, Hank
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