Treasure Hunting

Good day treasure hunting fans! We just received word from the forums that Kellyco is launching the Tesoro metal detector line once again! We at treasurehunting think this excellent news for our metal detector readers and are happy to see a new partnership. Without further adieu, here is the forum post:

Kellyco has been working towards this for some time now and we are very happy to once again be able to carry the Tesoro Metal Detector line. After a long break from Kellyco carrying the Tesoro Metal Detector line, we are proud to announce that we have been able to get the line back as part of our metal detector selection. We are looking forward to a great partnership and future with Tesoro. This new partnership is exciting not only for Kellyco, but for all metal detector and treasure hunting enthusiasts around the world as Kellyco will now be able to help promote and sell Tesoro products into this rewarding hobby.

To prepare us to carry the line, the Tesoro team was on site at Kellyco’s facility last week and went through rigorous training sessions with all of our sales members so they are now familiar with the machines. In addition to the training sessions last week, Kellyco’s team members have also taken the units out over the past month and made themselves familiar with them once again.

Stop by Kellyco’s website or drop into the showroom and check them out.

Links:

Tesoro Metal Detectors Main Page on Kellyco Metal Detectors website

Tesoro Cibola Metal Detector on Kellyco Metal Detectors website

Tesoro Compadre Metal Detector on Kellyco Metal Detectors website

Tesoro Cortés Metal Detector on Kellyco Metal Detectors website

Tesoro DeLeón Metal Detector on Kellyco Metal Detectors website

Tesoro Golden µMax Metal Detector on Kellyco Metal Detectors website

Tesoro Lobo Metal Detector on Kellyco Metal Detectors website

Tesoro Sand Shark Metal Detector on Kellyco Metal Detectors website (Available mid-April per Tesoro)

Tesoro Silver µMax Metal Detector on Kellyco Metal Detectors website

Tesoro Tejón Metal Detector on Kellyco Metal Detectors website

Tesoro Tiger Shark Metal Detector on Kellyco Metal Detectors website (Available mid-April per Tesoro)

Tesoro Vaquero Metal Detector on Kellyco Metal Detectors website

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at 1-888-KELLYCO and we will help you out any way we can.

Thank you all for supporting Kellyco Metal Detectors and we hope that this addition to our product line will be helpful to you all.

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It’s truly the gift that keeps on giving.

A week after receiving a metal detector for his seventh birthday, Lucas Hall’s gift is already paying dividends for the first-grader.

While metal detecting with his father, Gary, on private property outside Berryville, Lucas had a feeling the two needed to stop and look.

His hunch paid off.

Buried six inches deep was a sword thought to have been used during the Civil War.

“We stopped on the four-wheelers and Lucas said ‘right here,”

Gary recounted Monday.

“So we started digging, and not a minute later, there it was.”

“I was excited,”

Lucas said.

But the pair was still unsure of their finding until they started digging deeper.

“We originally thought it was an old fence post,”

Gary said.

“I started pulling it out of the ground, and when I saw the handle I went ‘Oh my gosh.”‘

Lucas’s passion for metal detecting skyrocketed, his mother, Tina, said, after their neighbor gave him a few Civil War-era bullets he found while metal detecting on his property.

Lucas also likes the Science Channel show “Meteorite Men” - a program about two men who look for meteorite pieces with metal detectors.

“(The neighbor) gave me a lot of bullets,” Lucas said. “I like digging for them.”

“Lucas really likes the pursuit,” his mother said.

The family is still unsure what kind of care is needed to preserve their discovery, which has been sitting on a towel in their living room since it was found.

“That’s the biggest thing right now, just touching it makes it disintegrate, and I want to preserve this for him,” Gary said. “We haven’t had it to an expert yet because we aren’t sure who to take it to.”

Gary Crawford, president of the Kernstown Battlefield Association, examined a picture of the sword.

He believes it is a light cavalry sabre model 1840 or 1860, but said it’s too difficult based on its condition to determine where the sabre was manufactured or which side used it.

The handle design, Crawford said, helps narrow down the time period of manufacturing.

“There is really no way of knowing (which side used it) because many of these sabres were manufactured in the North before the war and stocked in southern armories,” he said. “When the war started, the South just took those weapons and passed them out to their troops.”

Crawford said that about 18 inches of the blade may be missing.

“It may still be in the ground,” Crawford said, “or it may have been broken and thrown away - that wouldn’t have been uncommon.”

Regardless of any monetary worth the sabre might possess, the family isn’t interested in selling the relic, Gary said.

“This is really just fun for him, and I want to keep it that way,” he said. “Lucas doesn’t have a concept of the Civil War, he just knows what we tell him. But when he gets older, I want him to look back on this and appreciate it.”

Tina said the sabre, and other findings, will be incorporated into home-schooling lessons for Lucas and his 9-year-old sister, Samantha.

Lucas has also found several Civil War rifle-musket and minie ball bullets.

“Now we can teach a unit on the Civil War,” she said. “When they dig something up, we can try and learn about it.”

Now that this boy has inspired you to go out and start your own adventure, make sure to visit Kellyco to find the perfect detector for you and maybe you too will be able to share a story about your amazing finds.

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A three-year old boy playing with his grandad’s metal detector struck gold when he found treasure worth an estimated £2.5million - a 500-year-old gold locket.

James Hyatt struck gold when he unearthed the 16th century artifact in a field on his very first outing using a metal detector.

Experts believe it is one of only four of its kind in Britain and could have belonged to royalty.

James’s dad Jason said:

‘He was so excited when he realized he had found real treasure.’

‘He is one of the luckiest people ever. He’ll put his hand down the sofa and pull out a tenner.’

James, who lives in Billericay, Essex, was out walking with his grandad and dad in nearby Hockley when he asked if he could use the detector.

The boy, who has now turned four, said:

‘It went beep, beep, beep. Then we dug into the mud. There was gold there. We didn’t have a map. Only pirates use treasure maps.’

The 2.5cm pendant has a picture engraved on the front of the Virgin Mary clutching a cross and five bleeding hearts on the back.

Its sides carry the names of the three kings who visited Christ after his birth. It has been officially declared treasure and will be offered for sale to the British Museum and other institutions.

A similar artifact was bought for £2.5million by York museum.

The proceeds will be split between the unnamed landowner and James’s family.

This find was made with an Fisher F75. The Fisher F75 as well as many other top-of-the-line detectors are readily available at Kellyco. If you felt inspired by this story and would like start your own search for treasure, make sure to visit Kellyco to find the perfect detector to suit your needs.

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You asked for it, so Kellyco is providing it. Over the years we have had many customers ask us to provide products that we did not offer. We have been working very hard to deliver what our customers want and it is finally ready to debut to the world.

Kellyco Metal Detectors is very excited to announce the launch of Kellyco Outdoors, the newest addition to the Kellyco family. Kellyco Outdoors is a full service online outdoor shop that provides our current and new customers with thousands of items within the outdoor hobby world.

Please take the time to visit it at your leisure and let your friends and family know about Kellyco Outdoors.

Click the link below to view the newest website from Kellyco Metal Detectors.

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The newest detector on the market, the Teknetics G2, is now available at Kellyco. It is the latest innovation from Teknetics that provides the most depth and discrimination possible.

The New G2 is unique among gold prospecting metal detectors for its combination of high sensitivity to small gold nuggets and its versatile function as an all-purpose treasure detector.

The controls and features are tailored to gold prospecting, including a sophisticated ground balancing system, separate control over signal gain and threshold, and a unique discrimination control system. These features also make for a great relic-hunting detector. While the G2 makes for a highly competent coin-shooting detector, its user interface and features are not specifically designed lor this purpose. As a coin-shooter, you will notice that the G2 exhibits slightly lower sensitivity to high-conductivity coins, like a U.S.quarter; this is a result of its specialized design to emphasize sensitivity to small low conductivity metals like gold nuggets.

The new G2 with 19kHz is an extremely sensitive unit able to find the smallest gold and silver targets at extreme depths that other units have missed. The unit has the ability to find good targets in iron. It is superior to any detector made, even those selling for 2-3 times the price.

For more information, visit Kellyco to find out more about the exciting Teknetics G2.

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Kellyco is now offering the Fisher Gold Bug Pro. A brand new detector with great features to help you find your very own fortune.

The New Gold Bug Pro is unique among gold prospecting metal detectors for its combination of high sensitivity to small gold nuggets and its versatile function as an all-purpose treasure detector.

The controls and features are tailored to gold prospecting, including a sophisticated ground balancing system, separate control over signal gain and threshold, and a unique discrimination control system. These features also make for a great relic-hunting detector, especially when the Gold Bug Pro is outfitted with the optional 11″ DD search coil. While the Gold Bug Pro makes for a highly competent Coin-shooting detector, its user interface and features are not specifically designed for this purpose. As a coin-shooter, you will notice that the Gold Bug Pro exhibits slightly lower sensitivity to high conductivity coins, like a U.S. quarter; this is a result of its specialized design to emphasize sensitivity to small low conductivity metals like gold nuggets.

The Gold Bug Pro is outfitted with a small 5″ search coil as standard equipment since this search coil construction is best-suited to finding gold nuggets. You may be familiar with other metal detectors which have larger search coils, generally in the range of 8 to 10 inches in diameter. Large coils are designed to cover the maximum amount of ground efficiently and for the deepest ground penetration. Small search coils, intended for gold prospecting, are designed for precision. The Gold Bug Pro’s small DD search coil makes pinpointing easier, fits into small spaces where gold is often hidden, is better suited to penetrate highly mineralized soils where gold is frequently found, and has the highest
possible sensitivity to tiny gold nuggets.

If you would like more information on the Gold Bug Pro, make sure to visit Kellyco to see if the Gold Bug Pro is the right detector for you.

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Key West: Someone actually lifted the famous gold bar Wednesday evening from the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum.

The 5-pound bar, from the 15th century Spanish galleon the Nuestra Señora de Atocha that Fisher and his crew found off Key West in 1985, was stolen from its secure Plexiglas enclosure about 5:13 p.m., Key West police said.

Security cameras captured images of two people breaking into the case and taking the bar from what museum director Melissa Kendrick called one of Fisher’s favorite exhibits, because it allowed visitors to hold the same treasure — to “lift the gold bar” — found by his team.

One suspect was described as a white male about 6 feet tall, with dark hair and a medium build. The second suspect is about 5 foot 6 inches tall, reports say, and could be a woman or a man. Detectives were still working on identifying the suspects as of press time Thursday.

According to a police report, a security guard told a museum visitor to “make sure to touch the gold bar,” but when the visitor arrived at the exhibit, the bar was gone. The woman reportedly did not see anyone take the bar or acting suspiciously.

Detectives declined to say how they think the suspects broke into the exhibit, said police spokeswoman Alyson Crean. The FBI is working with Key West police, Crean said. The federal agency also investigates art and jewelry/gem theft, according to http://www.fbi.gov/hq.htm.

Kendrick declined to speculate on the bar’s worth, noting such treasure has an “antiquity value” on top of the actual gold value. A 5-pound solid gold bar would be worth about $98,800 in today’s market, according to gold prices posted Thursday afternoon at http://www.thestreet.com, a financial news website.

The museum is offering a $10,000 reward to anyone with information that leads to the 5-pound bar’s intact return, she said.

“This has never happened since we’ve been here,” Kendrick said, referring to the museum’s location at 200 Greene St.

In the 1970s, a group stole a silver bar that weighed about 70 pounds from Fisher, but that was before the current museum with its security measures were in place, Kendrick said. It was never recovered.

Former Mel Fisher diver Don Kincaid, who helped recover many artifacts in the early 1980s, was staggered to hear of Wednesday’s theft.

“To my knowledge, something like this has never happened before,” Kincaid said. “The design of the case that bar was in has thus far been completely successful. The ability to touch that bar was the most common compliment we would get from visitors. It’s one of only a few museums where you can touch history.”

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Saint Louis, MO; For all treasure-hunters, this 16,000-square-foot, interactive exhibition unlocks the real world of pirates, a world which had previously been relegated to movies and books and visually romanticized.

Real Pirates tells the true story of the Whydah- a slave ship turned pirate ship that sank off the coast of Cape Cod nearly 300 years ago. At the core of the exhibition are artifacts painstakingly recovered from the ocean floor, including treasure chests of gold coins, jewelry and the most advanced weaponry of the time.

Metal Detecting Companies such as Kellyco Metal Detectors sell rare coins just like the ones showcased at the exhibit… Start a collection of your own!

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These are the kind of events that makes Metal Detecting a truly honorable hobby.

Black Mountain, Asheville, NC — A group of metal-detecting enthusiasts helped police find some stolen jewelry last week.

The jewelry was stolen in a string of home break-ins last month. Five town residents were arrested in the case. The Police Department approached the metal-detecting hobbyists and gave them the approximate location of where they thought the suspected criminals disposed of some items.

The treasure hunters did the rest of the work.

“They did a good job,” police Sgt. Rob Austin said.

Mike Post, a Swannanoa Valley resident and dealer for Minelab brand metal detectors, recruited members of the Blue Ridge Metal Detecting Club and posted a message on Treasurenet.com, a website for hobbyists. They converged on the site Aug. 5 at the end of Vance Avenue and Montreat’s In the Oaks campus, and began sweeping the area, Post said.

Another man out for a walk discovered some jewelry boxes after the searchers told him what they where looking for. They were able to use their metal detectors to uncover the jewelry hidden beneath the leaves and dirt.

“It doesn’t take long for this stuff to bury itself,” Post said. “It settles once it rains and the wind blows.”

Club members came from as far as Sylva, and one man who was traveling through the area from Illinois made a detour to attend after seeing the post on Treasurenet.com.

“It was a good idea,” Austin said. “It panned out.”

The jewelry is now being processed as evidence. Austin is reviewing descriptions from police reports filed immediately after the break-ins to match the jewelry with the owners.

He said the case underscores the need for homeowners to document their possessions with photographs and record the serial numbers of possessions. Having photos can help homeowners claim their stolen goods if they are recovered, and serial numbers can help law enforcement officials track items through nationwide databases.

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - After an Inside Out story profiling Andrew Ostrowski and headlined “A tip of the fedora to Island’s very own Jones” appeared back in March, independent filmmaker and director Paul Vlachos of New York was so impressed by Ostrowski’s unique talents that he asked him to appear in an upcoming documentary about collectors.

Ostrowski, a 43-year-old freelance writer from West Brighton who has come to be known as “The Indiana Jones of Staten Island” because of his unique artifact-collecting hobby and his brave approach to relic-hunting, has somewhat taken on the persona of the Harrison Ford character, replete with fatigue jacket, bullwhip and signature fedora.

“This will definitely be a new adventure for me,” says Ostrowski of his first-ever moviemaking attempt. “Hunting down an ancient treasure in a dimly lit cave is one thing. Now I’ll be in front of a 1,000-watt Tinseltown spotlight,” says he, before adding, “Let’s hope I don’t fall to pieces!”

The film will be a documentary about various collectors across the country. Ostrowski, who seeks out rare antiquities and artifacts all over the world, will offer an in-depth survey of his own collection and will talk about the history, approach and charm of his artifact-collecting skill. “Each relic has its own tale to tell,” he adds. “It is the artifact that defines the collector, not the other way around.”

After he dusts off his fedora, the Indy-like solo adventurer will feature an on-screen sampling of items, dating to roughly 400 B.C. His oldest piece is a Phoenician trinket from the ancient city of Byblos, from which the word “Bible” derives.

Ostrowski notes that Mr. Ford invariably has a ravishing actress for his sidekick.

“The rumor is already out that I’m looking for a ‘leading lady’ to join me,” says Ostrowski, a bachelor. “Hey, all I can say is, if there’s a clone of the 6-foot, sleek and slender blond-bombshell actress Alison Doody hiding on Staten Island somewhere, just ring my doorbell. How can I ever refuse?”

Shooting begins this fall.

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