Real Scotish Treasure. Found cave system. Old Silver

[rhychydwr1]

I found this on Ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Real-Scotish-Treasure-Found-cave-system-Old-Silver_W0QQitemZ290178512352QQihZ019QQcategoryZ66638QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Now, I thought I have visited all the caves in Scotland, but this one is new to me.  Any idea where it is?

I have yet to find a cave in Scotland that is dry and dusty. 

The seller electric_bat (13) has a low number and a poor feedback 82.4%

Is he telling a porkie?     

 

[clunk]

He claims he was in hospital and seeing as all three negative feedbacks are from the same time frame, it is certainly plausible.

 

[martinr]

Hope he has checked the legality of offering it for sale out before he put it on ebay:

http://www.treasuretrovescotland.co.uk/

 

[martinr]

.

 

[cap n chris]

Looks to me like a crappy bit of EPNS, most likely a sugar cube holder. Worth? - about 10p in a jumble sale, on a good day.

 

[cap n chris]

Here's a business idea for some enterprising local; get a load of cheap bric-a-brac, put a piece at a time into a local cave; get your business colleague to "find" said item, proffer it as "a genuine fascinating stashed artefact found in ancient cave"* and sell it to a gormless sucker. Repeat.

* Truthful, but contrived, statement.

 

[AndyF]

Yes, silver plated tosh - worth fourth fifths of nine tenths of squat all

 

[hoehlenforscher]

Looks suspiciously like the tonnes of "silver" sold in the zooks and markets of north africa. I once bought a solid silver bracelet there for a friend. The paint lasted about 2 weeks! Check out the quality of the english in the ad. Certainly sounds like a escapee from a Moroccan market!

 

[mrodoc]

Here's a business idea for some enterprising local; get a load of cheap bric-a-brac, put a piece at a time into a local cave; get your business colleague to "find" said item, proffer it as "a genuine fascinating stashed artefact found in ancient cave"* and sell it to a gormless sucker. Repeat.

* Truthful, but contrived, statement.

This is called salting in mineral circles.

 

[whitelackington]

Here's a business idea for some enterprising local; get a load of cheap bric-a-brac, put a piece at a time into a local cave; get your business colleague to "find" said item, proffer it as "a genuine fascinating stashed artefact found in ancient cave"* and sell it to a gormless sucker. Repeat.

* Truthful, but contrived, statement.

This is called salting in mineral circles.

The seller is probably an Irish Tinker 

 

[cap n chris]

Clearly one who is lost, too.

 

[graham]

Here's a business idea for some enterprising local; get a load of cheap bric-a-brac, put a piece at a time into a local cave; get your business colleague to "find" said item, proffer it as "a genuine fascinating stashed artefact found in ancient cave"* and sell it to a gormless sucker. Repeat.

* Truthful, but contrived, statement.

This is called salting in mineral circles.

The seller is probably an Irish Tinker 

Why the need for a racist slur W/L?

 

[whitelackington]

Well, I had not imagined that the well known phrase Irish Tinker was racist.
I think I am 1/8 Irish but are we not the same race as the Irish or do you graham imagine they are a separate race?

 

[graham]

Well, I had not imagined that the well known phrase Irish Tinker was racist.

Than you are a damn fool. You are describing someone in this way simply because he seems to have acted in some way badly. You are thus making a direct association between poor behaviour and country of origin. That is as good a definition of "racist" as you could wish for.

 

[whitelackington]

Well, I had not imagined that the well known phrase Irish Tinker was racist.

Than you are a damn fool. You are describing someone in this way simply because he seems to have acted in some way badly. You are thus making a direct association between poor behaviour and country of origin. That is as good a definition of "racist" as you could wish for.

An interesting question,
can you be racist about your own race?

 

[cap n chris]

Of course.

 

[rhychydwr1]

Children, you are going of topic.  Does anyone know where the cave is?  I suspect it is a fictional cave.

 

[cap n chris]

Yes, probably fictional. Possibly one of the Candy Mountain caves.

 

[rhychydwr1]

Sold for ?63.00.  Lets get digging 

 

[workshopmonkey]

I believe they've got "lakes of stew and of whisky too, in the big rock candy mountains" As to the cave, never heard of it, sounds like a cobbling of several stories together. Up here on Skye we have a MacCoist's cave near Portree from where cap'n mac himself was supposed to sally forth and nick stuff. It's a sea cave and legend has that there was a secret passage from this up  the cliffs where he stored his horde etc etc.  We also have a few Caves of Gold and probably the most relevant to this link a Cave of Fools.  :