Opening Pandoras Box - Beach silver, and some!

[fred]

Late yesterday afternoon as I set off detecting i discovered that I'd got the low tide time wrong and the beach that I Iwas intending to visit wasn't feasible. As I hadn't been out for several days I decided to check the condition of all the local beaches instead.

As expected they were mostly pretty grim and not even worth unloading the detector for. I eventually ended up trying a few places where recent bulldozed shingle was starting to separate out. My very first signal was a kids junk bracelet just below the surface, although the moment that I picked it up I knew that it was something a bit better.

The rest of the detecting was mostly fishing weights and coins, made slightly more interesting by a local detectorists driving out so that I could help him set up his Nox a seal drifting happily around 20 yards offshore and the novelty of being caught in a shower.

Once hope I had a closer look at the bracelet and could see that it is a Pandora one with 15 charms on it. I have found several of the charms before and knew that they cost between about £25 and £50 quid each so the bracelet is quite valuable. I suspect that it was recently moved by the bulldozers as it has been lost for long enough for a thick black tarnish to develop but all the clips still work as they should. I have done a quick clean to fush out the salt water and clear off some of the tarnish. These bracelets are very personal and I am more hopeful than usual that I will be able to get it back to the original owner.

Early this morning I finally made it to the beach that I had intended to visit yesterday. As always it was nice to be out but it was quite chilly and the wind was blowing a gale. I just about covered the petrol money and parking but that's detecting for you.

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[haggz]

some vintage ones do go for good money.

[geoff]

That is a fun little bracelet!

[Phil2401]

Some young lady will be emotionally happy to get that back.
Are you going to put out notice on facebook, that will find her I bet?

I suspect that she might not now be quite so young - but good luck Fred and well found!

Phil

[king of the swingers]

careful when cleaning pandora charms as some of them are like a guild material and you can strip them to a dull colour that can not be put right. And yes i did do it

[Tomo]

Thats a nice array of silver. Well done

[littleboot]

The bracelet would have cost some money. I have a charm bracelet of the old fashioned variety which I rarely wear because I don't want to lose it. sentimental value. I have to say that the whole Pandora type charms are a massive victory for marketing over substance....but on the other hand they seem less likely to ladder one's tights than conventional charms so perhaps there is something in it. Whoever lost it would have been gutted....we will be intrigued to see if you can reunite it with the owner.