Hunt 2016.30
Out and about
Tides are crap at the moment, so decided to do a random Tiki Tour in the area along some of the less frequented roads, see if anything turned up.
First spot was a summer grassy park-up. Mud and puddles now. Hopped out just as a light drizzle started. Fired up the ATPro and into it.
As expected, it was a carpet of crushed cans, foil, pull tabs, Durex packets and screw caps. Feeling particularly lazy, I loaded up the notching to 75 and above. Any gold/silver can stay there for now...
That shut the trash up, apart from an occasional solid 75-76 goldie. pretty much picked all the low fruit ($8) in about 15min so bundled back into the car and headed off in search of somewhere less muddy.
Found an area at a natural lookout where someone had kindly sprayed the living daylights out of the weeds not so long ago, all that was left was 'scorched earth' and very dead remnants of previously impenetrable ginger etc.
Decided that as it was likely to be reasonably trash free, I'd use the Excal this time.
Nope, roadside near suburbia? Of course there was trash, and plenty of it. Lifted two manky 1950's pennies and an even worse 192? penny which kept the brain (and feet) from wandering off to other places. Then I eyeballed something I recognised.
An ancient pair of binoculars sunbathing - or what was left of them.
Hoovered the area intensively, but no other parts came to light so called it quits.
They appear to be late 1800's - early 1900's. Possibly WW1 issue?
With them cleaned up - started the long task of trying to ID. Many were oh, so close, but failed a match on sizing, metals or configuration.
At least they're a placeholder until a better pair see the light of day.
This pair are probably a 90% or better match, if not identical other than the lack of milling on the objective lens retaining ring. Unfortunately, the site had no date info other than late 19th.
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