Colonial cufflink (Update)

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  • Recover the cufflink and proclaim a 1700s home

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  • Leave cufflink as is...garbage

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  • Snap my detector over my leg, and take up the hobby of kite flying

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Colonial KirkPA

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Dudes: Yesterday, Paco, Zoy, and I got out for some of our usual datectin'. The type of tectin' that consists of idiotic feats of jovial celebrations, tectin', and recoveryin'. Before our trip, we were getting some heavy rain, in which, Paco and I were talking over the phone. During our conversation, I stated, "Dude, not only will the turf be super conductive, but I will also be able to take a bath in one of the puddles after we are done. I don't think the landowners will mind me warshing my tighty whitey's with a soap on a rope."

Well, the rain decided to sputter and stop, so the three detectoteers were ready to embark on a treasure seek. I decided to hit the Colonial field tonight in hopes of satiating my Colonial coppa desire. Since the cornstalks are still up...duh...the dude farmer hasn't harvested the field yet...giggle...droplets of wata (water) were dropping on my datector screen. Each time some did, I would curse like a drunken detectorist. hahaha To make a long story short, even though, you know dudes, I am all about detecting long, I found a button-type of relic. It didn't impress me, so I threw it in my pouch, literally. giggle

I left the field and decided to check out what my brotha finding. Once stepping onto the field in my flip-flops (SIKE, I wore my massive boots...I felt like I was 6'5"), Zoy yelled, "I got a frickin' Indian Heeeead." I said, "Who cares? Get a coppa or wilver?" That was all my brotha recovered. Since it started to rainy-rain-rainster again, we started to run toward our 1907 car...oops, I mean our 1997 car...picture this....two young detecting dudes sprinting super fast through a wheat field, detectors dragging on the ground, and some cursing going on...While sprinting past, Zoy, I stated with a laugh, "Shifting gears!"

Soon after arriving to the car...I like saying, "car,"....Paco arrived to his car. hahaha We chit-chatty-chitted for a bit about detecting and stated our detecting "goodbyes."

Well, once I got home, I looked at that relic that I had recovered professionally. It looked like gar-bage, so I chucked it in the gar-bage. hahaha

Well, I also like stating, "well," tonight Zoy researched that relic thing I had found....after soaking in the bathtub for a bit (I decided not to soak in a puddle), Zoy called me down for a meeting. He told me to sit down and stated, "Kirk, you had found a Colonial cufflink yesterday, you frickin' Idddiioot!" (another Ren and Stimpy moment) hahaha I sat at the table, with my hands over my eyes...I bet Zoy thought I was going to cry, but I soon burst out in super hard laughter. I stated, "Well, I guess I will have to scan the garbage with my machine tomorraw. I will listen for a faint 50 VDI...maybe turn my gain control up a notch to gain an extra inch of depth. Should I purchase a Minelab tonight....helk no, I don't want to hear them alien noises. hahaha Hmmmm....you know, Zoy, if I recover this relic again, I am proclaiming that our homestead was settled in the 1700s." giggling

Dudes, that just shows you, dudes, not to throw away dem Colonial relics. I better start focusing on identification, instead of acting cool. giggling

If I recover "her"...hmmm...maybe it was a "him" cufflink....I will post the pic tomorraw. Until next time, treasure hunting amigos and amigas, I sign thyself off in the name of WHITE'S! hahaha

*All relics were found on extreme private property with total consent from the landowners.

Dudes, I got up this morning around 7 in the a.m...ate 2 muffins and drank a double latte espreso. Soon after enjoying the muffins, I brushed my tooths...which felt very cleanly afterwards, I must admit. After brushing my tooths, I decided to jump in the bathtub for a soak and muse over my gameplan. While musing in a tepid pool of bubbles, I thought to myself, "Hmmm...you iiiidiot, Kirk, you will be crawling around in garbage soon, so why you scruba-dub-dubbin'?"

Well, I was soon downstairs after my "refreshing" and thought, "I better go find dat cuff-a-link-linky." hahaha Now, I was standing at the foot of a couple garbage cans. I opened up the 1st one and started to dump the contents onto the turf....while dumping the garrrbage out, it was so heavy I started to fall forward, so I let the entire contents fall all over the place. So, I recovered my manly-self and scanned the trash. For some reason, I was getting numerous junk sigs and "dollar" hits in the trash. I was thinking to myself, "Now, how in the hell is this gaarrrrrbage giving off sigs?" I was started to get p.o., so I started to throw gaarrrbage over my shoulder in disgust. On one occasion, I picked up a snot rag...it must have been from Zoy's nasal passages...that really started to make me shout out words....bad ones. hahaha At that moment, Zoy walked out with a cafe latte in hand and was breaking out in hysterical laughter, "You've been had by the Zoyboy!" That was when we both started to burst out in childish giggling. But, I was putting on a ploy with the giggling, I was pi$$ed off at him for tampering with the evidence, so I stood up and ran after him. At that moment, he put his cup down and ran away laughing....I chased him around the house about 4 times in in one direction, when he turned around and sprinted the other way for another 2 times around the homestead. I was shouting, "You will regret this one, buddy boy zoy!"

Well, I gave up on recovering the cufflink....thank Zoy for that one! My detector isn't that high-tech to pick between those iron sigs...helk, I don't have no "iron mask." HAHAHA
 

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Are you ever f'in serious?

Only rookies throw away unknown relics, so I am proclaiming you a rookie. During your first hole ever, you thought you dug a quarter at 3 feet deep, but the entire time, I was laughing when it kept falling back into the recovery site. :D Even to this day, that hole is one unsightly plug! :D
 

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hey, dude, does it look anything like this? I found this at colonial era home in NY.
 

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Re: Colonial cufflink

Oh, man-how are you going to sleep tonight ??? Why in the helk aren't you out there with a headlamp and your detector rootin through the gar-bage? I don't think I'm gonna be able to sleep now. Thanks alot, man.
 

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I never throw anything away. I have a bucket for aluminium junque, a bucket for hot wheels and such toys, one for copper, and one for unknowns or just junque made of anything but aluminium or copper. It's easier to find if you start to think about something you found earlier and just junked it. Sure beats digging in those 65 gal trash cans with all the other garbage. Good luck on your search, I wish you the best of luck.
 

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I can't help but chuckle every time I read one of your posts. It would be fun to go on a hunt with you guys and hear you talk like that the whole time lol. I liked how you called the sound Minelab makes alien noises. I never mess with those things, Whites detectors only here. Well to each his own ;D. I am not sure I could trash anything but metal shards from an old site like that, but we all make mistakes. HH,
Donny
 

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Bergie said:
hey, dude, does it look anything like this? I found this at colonial era home in NY.

Dude, exactly!!!

djabend said:
I can't help but chuckle every time I read one of your posts. It would be fun to go on a hunt with you guys and hear you talk like that the whole time lol. I liked how you called the sound Minelab makes alien noises. I never mess with those things, Whites detectors only here. Well to each his own ;D. I am not sure I could trash anything but metal shards from an old site like that, but we all make mistakes. HH,
Donny

I am White's forever, too! I am debating whether it is worth recovery...hmmm....I don't know. It is only a cufflink.

Even the pros make rookie mistakes. LMFAO!
 

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I actually think I act too spastic at times during detecting. I need to lay off of the sugar candy. :D
 

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KirkPA said:
I actually think I act too spastic at times during detecting. I need to lay off of the sugar candy. :D
Hey you need energy when you are out in the field ;D. HH,
Donny
 

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That detecting adventure reads almost like a screenplay for a made for TV re-enactment metal detection episode.

I felt like I was there. I felt every drop of rain off the corn stalks. A good sexy title would be "The Missing Cuff-Link".

It even has an element of conflict with the Minelab thing. Very entertaining. Action adventure with a touch of film Noir.
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I voted for finding it! (The cuff-link) that is.

Congratulations!



Ridley
 

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Great picture Ridley!

Find them cufflinks Kirk... Again.
 

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zoyboy said:
During your first hole ever, you thought you dug a quarter at 3 feet deep, but the entire time, I was laughing when it kept falling back into the recovery site. :D Even to this day, that hole is one unsightly plug! :D

You guys are a riot. ;D
 

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Ridley said:
That detecting adventure reads almost like a screenplay for a made for TV re-enactment metal detection episode.

I felt like I was there. I felt every drop of rain off the corn stalks. A good sexy title would be "The Missing Cuff-Link".

It even has an element of conflict with the Minelab thing. Very entertaining. Action adventure with a touch of film Noir.



I voted for finding it! (The cuff-link) that is.

Congratulations!



Ridley

Bud, when the three of us are all together, it can be none stop "blabbering." hahaha My one neighbor (he is a detectorist), always states, "Do you ever shut up?" hahaha I think we should have our own t.v. series. It would be a hoot to show you dudes the life of the three White's detectoteers.

Oh, the Minelab thing is kind of a friendly war. hahaha Well, the whole Minelab thing started when I was in a coin shop and this one old dude stated, "I would clean up after you White's guys." (he had an EXII) I stated, "I would like to see you do that, pal!" It almost became a total brouhaha, but the dude left. hahaha
 

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:D Great story, a little long in the tooth but great anyway! Your finds just get better and better. By the way I voted that you should take up Kite Flying. With the three of you out there almost every day there won't be anything left for the rest of us. hahaha Waiting to see that picture.
HH and keep us laffin.........

Desrtfox
 

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desertfox said:
:D Great story, a little long in the tooth but great anyway! Your finds just get better and better. By the way I voted that you should take up Kite Flying. With the three of you out there almost every day there won't be anything left for the rest of us. hahaha Waiting to see that picture.
HH and keep us laffin.........

Desrtfox

I am glad you enjoyed it, bud.

HH!
 

The Minelab dude is a well-respected member of the metal detecting world...his name is Mr. E. Burke. I think he was jealous of our finds we were telling him about.
 

again entertaining post as always, now go find the cuffs! :D
 

So after you realized what it was, did you feel like this?


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But seriously dude, always I.D. your items. I clean everything up that looks the least bit interesting. And the older the site, the longer I save my junque before I get rid of it--I just have to make sure I'm not trashing anything valuable. There was a guy on here that trashed a Civil War tent-rope-tightener earlier this year.

I wish you the best of luck in recovering the cufflink a second time.

Regards,

Buckleboy
 

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djabend said:
I can't help but chuckle every time I read one of your posts. It would be fun to go on a hunt with you guys and hear you talk like that the whole time lol. I liked how you called the sound Minelab makes alien noises. I never mess with those things, Whites detectors only here. Well to each his own ;D. I am not sure I could trash anything but metal shards from an old site like that, but we all make mistakes. HH,
Donny
In reality, they probably sound like William F. Buckley talking to each other ;D
 

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