This weekends goodies

Zodiacdiverdave

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Well I finaly got back in the water, it took a while due to other things like weather and Grandpa duties but what the heck you have to keep things in ballance.
The four of us got up a few nice pieces including a belt with a snake buckle(Dwayne's). I posted this up on the "Todays finds" so I could get a little more info on it. What we can figure is it is an 1860s piece most likely British but seeing how we had Confederate blockade runners visited our port from time to time during the CW it could have belonged to a Confederate soldier, I guess we will never know.
We also got a few other nice items like the ink well and some colbalts. My finds include Canadian Armed Forces dinner plate, (not an old piece but might be collectable in a 100 years:laughing7:)
an "J.C.ENO'S" bottle and a nice clay pipe bowl with the Isle of Man symbol on it.
Water is warming up, now 37*F.:hello2:
ZDD
 

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Nice stuff! I think Gary Drayton found a snake clasp, or posted a pic of one recently. Maybe it was somebody else... not sure.
 

Nice finds! Water sounds a little cold yet.
 

the snake buckle on the original belt is banner worthy in my opinion...
 

the snake buckle on the original belt is banner worthy in my opinion...
I must agree with you gsxraddict, it seems that leather doesn't keep so well in the soil so it is rare to find a buckle with the belt still attached. What is neat is that the 2 pieces of the buckle were still together and stayed together while they were in the goodie bag. Dwyane only brought it up because he thought it might be a leather, divers wieght belt. The belt still has brass clips on the side for the shoulder straps and possible sword holder, it was the last thing I would have expected to see come up from our harbour. If Dwyane was a member on TN I would have nominated it for Banner myself.
Come to think of it one of our other buddies found the brass sword handle and gaurd in the same area about 10 years ago, might have come from the same guy, infact he may still be down there, perhaps I will bring him or bits of him up next dive.
Happy dives everyone,
ZDD
 

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