I know what I would like them to be.......

[funkman]

REAL!!!! But then again...dammit Jim I'm a metal detectorist, not a jeweler!!

ANyway I was at my ATV trails today...thank you wife for allowing me to go...and I was hitting an area where earthworks found the bottle that I posted last week. It was by a concrete section that was something. Anyhoo, I was sifting through some stuff in the hole he got the bottle in and found some more shards of pottery and clear glass like from another bottle. Well after giving up on the hole to do some detecting I got a funky signal so I gave it a whirl and dug it up. What popped out of the hole was circular about the size of a coin. Maybe in between quarter and kennedy half dollar size. Looked like just junk but was encrusted with dirt on the one side and my son noticed some glass looking stones on it....so in the pouch it went. That was about the amount of my finds today.

When we got home I brought the pottery to the side water spicket to clean them off. WHile there I washed the circular thing and started seeing some kind of pattern or design on it. After the initial washing with toothbrush and dishsoap I see that it is some sort of jewelry. DOn;t know what it is that is why it is here. The shiny glass looking things turned out to be 4 of them. WOuld have been 5 except 1 is missing and there seemed to have been oval shaped bigger gems or whatever in a propellar shape (for lack of a better description).

Well people...lets get our thinking caps on and tell me if I should jump for joy or just shrug my shoulders with a smirk on my face for finding something else at my trails. Are these gems the real mc'coys...diamonds, or just fake glass? Don;t know what this would have even been but maybe one of you good folk can help me out.

Thanks all

Funkman

 

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[stoney56]

Probably they'e glass. Not for sure but might be the lid for a pillbox.

 

[funkman]

yeah I think they are glass also. The middle one looks like it was broken. Don't think you could break a diamond.

Definatley some kind of lid to something. Almost watch fob size.

Funkman

 

[stoney56]

Actually you can break a diamond if hit just right. A diamond is the hardest substance but not indestructable. I can see you probably have 4 other stones missing which would be the marquise shaped ones forming either leaves or petals. You might want to go and sift the spot that came from as there's a possibility they're still there

 

[TreasureTales]

Last photo, left side, is that a place where a hinge was? Snuff box lid? Beauty mark box lid?

 

[BioProfessor]

Most diamonds (except for some of the antique ones with a flat back) are open on the bottom (prong set) or have some sort of hole underneath them to let some light in from below/behind. This increases their brilliance. Glass or rhinestones are set in something that has no hole in the bottom but sometimes has a shiny foil underneath to increase the light reflectance. These look like they are set in a closed setting and may have had foil underneath.

My vote is for glass as well.

Daryl

 

[funkman]

I was thinking maybe even a locket but snuff box or pill box seem about right. It is exactly the size of a Kennedy half dollar. The hing looking thing on the left side of the last photo seems to be a clasp or something (metal piece with a hole in it) that was bent in half so it looks like a hinge. But then again maybe that is how they made the hinge back then.
Anyway one of the stones was loose and popped out. It did have some goldish gilt on the backside of the stone so I gather they are glass. Was still a neat find.
Have to sift that whole area and see if this concrete section has any more of it that are possibly buried.

Thanks for the replies

Funkman

 

[davesx]

I may be wrong, but I don't think diamonds would be put on
base metal.

Dave.