🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Weird metal plate

[cudamark]

I found this buried deep in the sand at a salt water beach. At first I just thought it was just some piece of scrap metal, but, after washing it off a bit, I could see that the plate had a fine mesh type pattern in it and two figures standing there. It measures 4" wide and 5 1/2" tall. Any ideas as to who these two are and what the significance of it is? To me, it looks like a man and a woman posing for some reason. The plate is made of some sort of non-ferrous white metal, and has some impact damage to it.

 

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[Jorgeke]

I found this buried deep in the sand at a salt water beach. At first I just thought it was just some piece of scrap metal, but, after washing it off a bit, I could see that the plate had a fine mesh type pattern in it and two figures standing there. It measures 4" wide and 5 1/2" tall. Any ideas as to who these two are and what the significance of it is? To me, it looks like a man and a woman posing for some reason. The plate is made of some sort of non-ferrous white metal, and has some impact damage to it.

Cudamark

I can clearly see man and woman,
Nice finding

Congrats

Keep detecting, keep posting and keep in touch
😎

 

[Red-Coat]

Neat find.

It's an old printing plate... probably for an advertisement. The couple look like they're all gussied up in fancy evening-wear threads.

It will probably be zinc.

 

[cudamark]

Neat find.

It's an old printing plate... probably for an advertisement. The couple look like they're all gussied up in fancy evening-wear threads.

You're probably correct, it's just that the printing plates I've found in the past were either lead or copper.

 

[Red-Coat]

You're probably correct, it's just that the printing plates I've found in the past were either lead or copper.

I just made an addition to my reply. They were commonly made from zinc too and that's what it looks like.

 

[1637]

I just made an addition to my reply. They were commonly made from zinc too and that's what it looks like.

in the back ground it looks like a old ships wheel,cool find

 

[villagenut]

I was thinking it could have been from a fold up picture frame and this plate may have been opposite facing the open faced photograph, and a ghost image formed on the plate...much like the endpaper of an old book may show the reverse image that lay against it for so long.......im just not seeing high enough of a relief image for it to be a printing plate.

 

[villagenut]

Although that was my take on it at a quick look....a closer inspection shows pixels....which would be reflected as a printing plate....my bad.

 

[Doubter in MD]

I flipped it and tried to get more detail to show.

 

[xr7ator]

I dont have the foggiest idea why these things are scattered in our soil, but I have found many over the years.

 

[DCMatt]

Something like this:

 

[cudamark]

Thanks! I was hoping for something a bit more glamorous! What a product name!

 

[Georgivs]

I think these printing plates were often recycled for their lead. I've found a whole bunch in various locations (mostly from farmers almanacs? maybe sears magazines?) and several of them have been cut up

 

[Red-Coat]

I think these printing plates were often recycled for their lead.

True, but I would be pretty sure this one is zinc.

 

[cudamark]

Yup, if this was lead, I wouldn't have even posted it, as I've found other lead printing plates before....even copper ones. This was some other metal and didn't have much in the way of relief that the other ones I've found had. More like an etching than the high relief printing plates I've found in the past.

 

[ARC]

Those are not pixels ... they are holes.

 

[Lenrac2]

Something like this:

😄. I dug up one of those bottles years ago! It did make us smile at the silly name!