10/1/19 Report - Marie Antoinette's Jewels. Oak Island Finds. Beach Conditions.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.

John Brooks Beach Monday A Couple Hours Before Low Tide Monday 

I visited the beach yesterday afternoon and found it to be mostly unchanged.  For the last few weeks I've seen little but the same old thing - waves hitting the beach straight on.  Despite the wind and all the high water, we are getting no cuts at most places.

John Brooks Beach To The South Monday Afternoon.

You can see where the water is breaking on the sand out in front of the beach.  The beach looks flat and low.  I've been eagerly waiting for the water to back off. 

The Front of Frederick Douglass Beach Before Low Tide Monday.

In the above photo you can see the wide flat wet sand area near low tide.  If this was a busy swimming beach, I'd definitely check it out.  

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I hadn't been watching but just discovered that they might have found Marie Antoinette's jewels on Oak Island.  (See picture below.)

According to an article I just read, they (the Oak Island searchers) speculated that the jewels shown below might have been those of Marie Antoinette.

Source: MonstersandCritics.com (See link below).

Here is that link.

https://www.monstersandcritics.com/smallscreen/treasure-found-on-the-curse-of-oak-island-as-500-year-old-gemstone-uncovered/

In 2018 Sotheby's auctioned Marie Antoinette's jewels - except for the ones found on Oak Island, of course.

I don't see the resemblance.  The ones found on Oak Island must have been from her shabby chic period.

About Marie Antoinette's jewels, VintageNews.com says, "The jewelry was whisked out of France due to the courageous efforts of Count Mercy Argenteau, a retainer to the queen.

As King Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, and their family prepared their escape in March 1791, the queen placed all her diamonds, rubies, and pearls in a wooden chest, which made its way to Vienna by way of Brussels in the care of Count Argenteau."

No mention of rhodolite, but that could be easily overlooked.

Marie Antoinette Earrings.

Source: TheVintageNews.com (See link below)

According to the same article, Marie Antoinettes daughter reclaimed the jewels.  "Upon her eventual arrival in Vienna in 1796, she reclaimed her mother’s jewels, which had been kept for her by her cousin, the Austrian Emperor."

Here is the link for the article about Marie Antoinette's auctioned jewels.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/10/20/marie-antoinette-jewelry/

I know what you are thinking.  The Oak Island jewels(?) look just like Marie Antoinette's, and they could have been carelessly strewn about Oak Island instead of guarded and buried in one of the tunnels or shafts that were painstakingly constructed for the purpose of secreting them.  Isn't that a possibility?

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I've been using the term "stratigraphic discrimination."  That is a term that I've been using to refer to selecting ignoring or paying attention to various layers or depths, whether it is on the beach or inland.

Sites that have a lot of targets, I might take one layer at a time.  One common way to do that is to focus on and remove the top layer of easy targets first, and after getting them out of the way, focusing more on the deeper targets.  That might involve a change of metal detectors or settings and even scanning patterns.  

When removing coin lines or holes from the wet and area, after the loud targets are removed, you will hear the more faint signals, especially if you adapt your search to focus on those faint signals.  Among other things that might involve slowing down your search.

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Happy hunting,

Who knows where you might find Marie Antoinette's jewels.

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