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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vern, post: 48147, member: 347&quot;]I mine gold elsewhere in Alaska.&nbsp; Yes, it looks like yellow &quot;pancakes&quot; from some places.&nbsp; Other places you find small coarse nuggets.&nbsp; Actually, to boot, I have worked and lived closely to the producers, cast, and crew of some of your Alaska TV shows.&nbsp; I can assure you the gold is real.&nbsp; I can also assure you the drama is not…&nbsp; Raw gold like that varies a lot in purity and usually is around 85% give or take 10% or so around here.&nbsp; It has silver and or copper with it.&nbsp; Sometimes there are traces of others.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>After thinking on this a while and doing more research I am convinced something happened at least to the second test.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A few years back I thought to maybe have a new set of pins cast by someone that works in old brass furniture fittings.&nbsp; I did decide to leave the missing and replacement pins as it was found, but I had one of the pins tested, which I would consider to be white brass.&nbsp; It came back as 60% copper 15%zinc and 20%nickel with some traces.&nbsp; I cannot find that print out.&nbsp; That one was the place where I had the first gold positive test on the wheel too.&nbsp; The pin pretty much tested close to what I had expected to make it lighter in color.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, The wheel is much much lighter in color.&nbsp; In fact, it has no trace of yellow and I wouldn&#039;t even consider it near a brass.&nbsp; There is no way that is 80% copper.&nbsp; It would be more yellow than the pole.&nbsp; I believe there was contamination or a sample got confused.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>However, I still treasure it as if it were gold either way.&nbsp; Really, there isn&#039;t another like it and I&#039;ve yet to find a vertical roulette wheel as old as it.&nbsp; Just the tour de force in placement and engraving the numbers blows my mind.&nbsp; Why not just make a stamp for the 20 7&#039;s on the wheel and punch them into it?&nbsp; It really is an excellent example of a Bodoni typeface variant too.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>All and all the number game is rigged too, as you might remember.&nbsp; There is still a great chance this was in one of Soapy&#039;s saloons he owned all over gold rush territory.&nbsp; Very few Yukon gambling artifacts are still around.&nbsp; I need to find a home for this one so that people can enjoy it and its history live on.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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