"False" Gold is Solid Gold Find

[tigerbeetle]

I bit off a bit more than expected this week while digging a reading when my new Fisher F75 sounded off in a golden way.

Based on sound alone, I expected a smallish find. Instead, I hit yet another freakishly large and toothy find. Years back I made a similarly spooky CSI-ish unearthing. This go'round, I wasn't quite as freaked as I slowly exposed what amounted to essentially half a smile's worth of, uh, treasure. The solid ​gold tooth made me smile.

Hey, you take gold where you find it -- though I'd still prefer the likes of nuggets and jewelry. As most folks know, dental gold is, well, golden. It is a very high karat

Sidebar: You might wonder why someone would get a gold tooth built into fake teeth. My guess is the wearer had formerly had a gold tooth in his/her mouth and didn't want to draw attention to needing false teeth, a bit of a social stigma. That's a little CSI-ing on my part.

 

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[SilverPirate]

Wow, cool find.

 

[Gunrunner61]

Hmmmmmmm...........Whats up with you and false teeth? You been forgeting where your burying the Bodies? lol
Cool find,well nice fin.....Well thats just weird!...............

 

[bill from lachine]

tigerbeetle,

Well oddball finds are my favorite and that one certainly fits the bill....lol.

Regards + HH

Bill

 

[Michellets]

Some of the older dentures were constructed using 24kt gold... that one looks a bit more modern. I just can't understand how someone could lose a set of teeth... was it found in a park, or at a beach?

 

[AnnieF]

I'm no expert, but haven't we learned from t.v. that teeth - even dentures - can be i.d.'d? I mean, you might help identify a missing person, you know? I'd get some advice first, but you might consider taking it to the local police station - could be a great relief to someone who loves a missing person...

 

[matt092079]

Gold is gold!

 

[webatch]

I just can't understand how someone could lose a set of teeth... was it found in a park, or at a beach?

Same thing I was thinking! How can you loose your teeth and not immediately know it? Just tell me you weren't digging in the grave yard!

Hmm that reminds me I have a dentist appointment in the morning.

 

[Jim of PA]

Same thing I was thinking! How can you loose your teeth and not immediately know it? Just tell me you weren't digging in the grave yard!

May have been from a blonde lmao

 

[nsdq]

i need those

 

[tigerbeetle]

This set was all by its lonesome, in a wooded area, not buried very deep down. The area has been a deer hunters' haven for literally hundreds of years. Ancient wooden deer stands still hang all over the place.

Dentist says they're fairly old, as in the 1930s -- based on style and red bakelite-type material of the red part. Talk about a cold-case ...

By the by, the dentist suggested they seemed "fully functional," as far as their condition. What's more, even back in the day you didn't just chuck gold. He also said he can't count the number of patients who lose dentures, mainly by taking them out and misplacing them.

I picture an old hunter pulling them-there blasted teeth out and tucking them into his plaid jacket upper pocket, maybe to wait more comfortably in a deer stand. Then, when he was hiking out -- or maybe dragging out a kill -- he got warm, took off the jacket, threw it over his shoulder and that was that. Hey, it's a theory, you know, something to chew on.

 

[Zodiacdiverdave]

Some of the older dentures were constructed using 24kt gold... that one looks a bit more modern. I just can't understand how someone could lose a set of teeth... was it found in a park, or at a beach?

Back in the mid 70s, I was on detachment in Bermuda, a bunch of us went to a beach for the day, a couple of guys took a peddle boat out a ways when it began to sink, someone on shore saw it and began to scream "SHARK" the guys in the paddle boat heard this and started screaming for help when one of them screamed so much his teeth fell out into the water. I did some diving in the area to try and find them but no luck. It was really funny at the time though, some times your teeth just fall out. LOL
Thanks for the memory,
ZDD

 

[dieselfool]

I find it interesting that someone would include a real gold tooth in a set of dentures. Talk about somebody literally putting his money where his mouth is!

 

[Jim of PA]

You said a mouth full lol

 

[Wildcat1750]

You said a mouth full lol

Too funny
Nice set of teeth you found there. Did you clean them up with toothpaste?

 

[JT1080]

Wow... That's comical. Not sure what to think if I dug those up.

 

[seekandfind]

Going back to try and find the other half? There may be more gold there or a body. Good find but kinda gross, that is until I find my own set of gold teeth,lol. HH

 

[Tnmountains]

Ummm that is going to display really well .

 

[chkn]

Fella musta been fairly welll to do by the looks of it. They kinda look like real teeth. Is that how they did it back then? There must be all kinds of stuff out there!

 

[spitfire55]

Gold is where you find it and you found it. Makes no differencs what form, shape,size,condition or color....nice find.