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Detecting in South Africa

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2590 on: May 20, 2012, 11:17:36 pm »

Sorry Homie, I should of posted the photo of the match striker, oh, well it is at the bottom now Funny

they used to remove the match from the box and then strike it on the strip on the side of the box. It is definitely a match safe Great

remembering also at those times, there were no safety matches, you could strike a match anywhere Devil

I have seen these things in antique shops and in photo's, but first time finding one Kiss

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2591 on: May 21, 2012, 12:12:30 am »

Awesome Finds there Peter !! Congrats !!

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2592 on: May 21, 2012, 02:47:31 pm »

Thanks Karl, I have done some research on the match safe and found it is from 1893 - 1900 with heart shape boxes being favored by the British which makes a lot of sense with where it was found, time period being spot on Great

I am in the process of cleaning it up, but still keeping it old looking, don't want it shining No no!

I will post a photo when it is done Kiss

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Ok guys, here is the final photo of the cleaned up article, turned out pretty good Great

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2593 on: May 21, 2012, 03:52:16 pm »

And I thought that your favourite find was the gold coin? Ho well I guess that everyone has the right to change his mind

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2594 on: May 21, 2012, 04:00:37 pm »

The gold coin is my favorite find, but this has to be my favorite relic Great

I think I must place it in a box frame Grin

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2595 on: May 21, 2012, 05:22:20 pm »

Oh, the irony! Look at that Peter! Some old Brit gave his heart to you... and now you're gonna go back and be a Brit yourself!! Huh?

Seriously, got the house up for sale yet? How is that whole process goling?

The old heart cleaned up very nicely, didn't it? Way to go! Detecting

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2596 on: May 21, 2012, 11:12:26 pm »

Hi Arfieboy,

My heart did come out clean didn't it Kiss

We did have someone who wanted the house, but it has fallen through as the bank turned them down as they do not have any credit references No no!

there are other people who have put in for a loan, but we will just have to wait and see Wise

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2597 on: May 22, 2012, 06:46:23 am »

Grats on the Great finds, Peter. That is a nice heart match box.

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2598 on: May 22, 2012, 11:34:45 am »

X is feeling sad because he says that he was nice to me in the comments and I did not reply Cry

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thanks for all the kind words you sent me, I really appreciate it Kiss

not stop moaning and finish my pin-pointer Club

FlowerOfTheSea, thanks for the comment, this has really turned out to be a special find Great

not something that is found every day. Now I am looking at putting it into a small display frame Funny

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2599 on: May 22, 2012, 12:52:31 pm »

Hey Peter mate

I'm busy designing the PCB for the first pin-pointer version 9.8.3 yep that's the amount of times that I re-build and re-programmed it the 9 is for the amount of times that I build it on bread board the 8 is for the amount of times the I re-wrote the program and the 3 are the mods that I did to this particular programme but hey it will detect a copper coin at 40mm so OK it still aint what I want it to be but it's a working prototype (Version one) by the way power consumption is very low but it will need two 9v batteries to run wonder if I can't use a transformer ..... will get back to you soon

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