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Author Topic: The silver thimble I found at the DW Ludlow rally retored!  (Read 2454 times)
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« on: August 22, 2010, 03:10:22 PM »
At the last Detectingwales.com Rally in Ludlow I found my first silver thimble. I know I was as shocked as all my buddies as I never find silver ones, but have around 30 copper alloy ones!

Anyway after a bit of boiling water to soften it and a bit of tidying up - here it is!

The first one is as found and the next two after pictures. Dates to around 1850 as confirmed by the FLO's present.

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« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2010, 03:38:29 PM »
I remember seeing this at the rally Niel,
Thats come up very well ...... Very nice find Wink
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« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2010, 03:45:52 PM »
its a cracking find Neil i remeber you wasnt far from me and seen it wow it is cool.

bravo mon ami.

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« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2010, 04:23:13 PM »
Lovely job Neil, it came up lovely.

OK now for the down side, just a warning to all those who may fancy having a go at straightening anything silver, please don't use boiling water. While the annealing starts at about 80*c on solid silver it is not complete until it reaches 500*c and even higher on sterling silver. So please use a blow torch or even the flame from a gas hob as eventually you are going to hear the "PING" of snapping silver.

Here is an excellent demo video of how to straighten a silver coin.

http://www.mlotv.com/view/204/offa-saxon-coin/
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« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2010, 04:27:36 PM »
seen this video chef befor very interesting but a long process to get there in the end ,but well worth it .

Thanks.

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« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2010, 06:58:34 PM »
nice one niel
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