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Show English Seaside Resorts Lure Treasure Hunters Treasure hunting Is a trade at English Eng-lish seaside resorts. It is much like gold mining you may strike It lucky or you may not. For his work the beachraker used a rake of the broad wooden pattern common among harvesters har-vesters with the addition of a small-mesh small-mesh wire netting fixed to the peg, so that coins, rings or similar articles may be held. All finds of value must be reported to the police and the articles ar-ticles handed over. If not claimed they become the finder's property. Loose coins the treasure hunter keeps; any In purses or bags, or tied In the corners of handkerchiefs, are surrendered. They could be Identified. Identi-fied. Some of the things are dropped, but most ot them hove been laid on the sand and inadvertently covered up. One of the most remunerative finds of a beachraker was an old lady's false teeth. She rewarded blm with $25. |