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| Example WW II Officers Cap With Badge Sent by Christopher P. |
Yesterday I showed a metal Great Seal of the United States. I didn't know what it was at first. After the item was cleaned I could see where two pins would have been. That was totally covered by a encrustation before.
I am now sure it is a officer's cap pin of the WW II era.
Thanks for the picture Christopher!
Other WW II items have come from that same area of the beach in the past. Most of that, though, was when the beach was eroded way back - maybe a hundred yards from where it is now.
I suspect this one was dredged up and dumped with the renourishment sand. That happens occasionally. It can be very helpful when you can figure out where things are coming from.
This one was found where WW II training took place, but I still suspect that it actually came from where the dredged sand was picked up.
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| Where Pin Was Attached To Badge. |
Here is the back of the badge that was found yesterday after the encrustation was cleaned off.
There were two pins attached - one behind each wing.
This photo shows where one pin was attached (red circle).
A cache of 300 1887 mint-condition silver dollars were found when plummers were digging a ditch. That happened back a few years but still the story is worth looking at. Good read.
http://www.reporternews.com/news/coin-cache-found-in-amarillo-backyard
You never know what you might find if you keep digging.
A map actually used by Robert E. Lee has a value of between 50 to 100 thousand dollars.
http://www.aol.com/article/2014/10/21/antiques-roadshow-robert-e-lee-map-photo-worth-upwards-of/20981684/
More on WW II. The wreckage of a Nazi U-boat was found off of North Carolina.
http://xfinity.comcast.net/video/WWII-Nazi-U-Boat-Wreckage-Found/346833475829/Comcast/TopVideos/?cid=sf_vidtray
On the Treasure Coast it looks like we're going to have nothing much more than a two foot surf for about a week. Nonetheless, as I've been showing, we have been getting some decent sand movement - more than I would expect from such a small surf. The wind was from the North, which at least partially accounts for it.
As I left the beach yesterday, the tide was coming in and the face of the cut was being hit, and that was knocking a little more sand off the cut. At that time the waves were hitting straight on and the sand was not being swept away.
We have one tropical disturbance below Cuba now.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@Comcast.net
