6/1/18 Report - Dr Pierce's Prescription Bottle. Valuable Titanic Letter. Coming To America. Collecting News.

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Dr. Pierce's Prescription Bottle.

I find a lot of old and vintage bottles on the Treasure Coast.  Here is one.  Its a nice large bottle in nice condition.

Dr Pierce Bottle Labeled Buffalo, N. Y.

I'm putting Treasure Coast bottle finds like this one in TGBottleBarn.blogspot.com.  I'm thinking about taking offers on them since I don't have storage space.

I'll be adding to my bottle barn whenever I find the time.  You'll find a link to it at the top left of this blog.

I found the following on the ehive.com site linked below.

A quack patent medicine of the late 1800s and early 1900s. The product was widely promoted to treat "women's conditions". For example the following is from Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Advisor.On p. 342, the following is noted: “Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is an efficient remedy in cases requiring a medicine to regulate the menstrual function. Full directions accompany every bottle.” Further on p. 346: “Dr. Pierce's Favorite prescription. This is a tonic nervine of unsurpassed efficacy, combined in such a manner, that, while it quiets nervous irritation, it strengthens the enfeebled nervous system, restoring it to healthful vigor. In all diseases involving the female reproductive organs, with which there is usually associated an irritable condition of the nervous system, it is unsurpassed as a remedy. It is also a uterine and general tonic of great excellence. It is sold by all druggists.” Source: RV Pierce The People’s Common Sense Medical Advisor, 1895; Buffalo NY: WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

https://ehive.com/collections/4339/objects/348955/dr-pierces-favorite-prescription-bottle

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A letter written by a passenger of the Titanic sold for $165,776.

The Titanic was carrying 2,223 passengers when it sank in the icy waters of the Atlantic on April 12, 1912. A total of 1,517 men, women and children – mostly third-class passengers and crew – died in the tragedy, which has been detailed in countless books and movies for almost all of the 106 years since the tragedy. Titanic collectibles have been particularly hot since the wreck was discovered by Robert Ballard, then working at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, in 1985. In late 2017, the tragedy was humanized by the sale of a letter written by Alexander Oskar Holverson, a first-class passenger, one day before the ship sank. The letter sold for $165,776 in England by Henry Aldridge & Son, an auction house that specializes in Titanic memorabilia. That is a record price for correspondence from the ill-fated ocean liner...

https://www.kovels.com/latest-news/letter-from-titanic-passenger-makes-record-price.html

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Archaeologists have fought for decades over how and when people first arrived in the Americas. Did they walk down a corridor between the great glaciers of western Canada about 13,500 years ago? Or did they travel by boat even earlier? New research supports an early sea arrival, by way of the Pacific coast. By dating rocks and animal bones, scientists conclude that the coast of southeastern Alaska was largely ice-free and full of plant and animal life some 17,000 years ago—a welcoming environment for people venturing south into a new world.''...

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/new-map-alaska-s-ancient-coast-supports-theory-america-s-first-people-arrived-boat

Global warming I guess!

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"Collecting as a whole is threatened," said Mr. Rinker, head of the Institute for Antiques and Collectibles. "Young people are not collecting the way old people did."

One big difference: Not so long ago, it wasn't uncommon to find someone with a collection of, say, 500 lunchboxes or 1,000 Barbie dolls. No more. "To find anyone with a collection of 50 of anything is difficult," Mr. Rinker said. "They find something they like, buy one or two more, then they quit."

Another difference: There's not much joy in the chase. Hard-core collectors like to go to yard sales, antique stores and shows, hoping to find a genuine Chippendale armoire in someone's basement. These days, however, all you really need to do is head for the internet. "Anything you want, you can find pretty quickly on eBay or Etsy," Mr. Rinker said. "Everyone is dumping everything there."...

http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20170922/FREE/170929969/collectibles-market-not-what-it-used-to-be

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We'll have a very calm surf on the Treasure Coast this week.  Enjoy it.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

9/10/15 Report - 1813 Shipwreck Site Studied. Treasure Tracking. El Nino. Adventures of Sir Francis Drake.

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Archaeologists are trying to locate the salvage camp and figure out how the survivors survived an 1813 shipwreck near Sitka.

...The nature of the artifacts seems to strongly indicate that survivors of the shipwreck were active in ensuring their own survival. They modified wreckage in desperation, but with ingenuity.

"Collectively, the artifacts reflect improvisation in a survival situation, and do not include ceramics, glass and other materials that would be associated with a settlement," McMahan said...

Here is the link for the story and which is also the source of the picture at the top of the post.

http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=136012&org=NSF&from=news

I've been talking a bit about how things come to be distributed after a shipwreck.  Part of that involves steps taken by the survivors to survive.  Some of the first items salvaged will be those most necessary for survival.  Some of those items will be modified and repurposed.

As you know, we have a few salvage camp areas along the Treasure Coast.  Some were used for quite a while.

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One of the early tourists to visit Florida was Sir Francis Drake.  He also visited Virginia and took tobacco home to England.

Here is an account of his quest for treasure at Nombre de Dios and Cartegena.  It is supposed to be an eye-witness account approved by Sir Francis himself.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2854/2854-h/2854-h.htm

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I often liken metal detecting to hunting wild game.  There are similarities, most especially when you are hunting older items.  To hunt old items most successfully, you have to know the signs, and how treasure travels and where it is most likely to be found.  Tracing its path and course is very much like stalking wild game.  That is something I enjoy.

I like hunting things.  It isn't any fun to go out and buy it at the store.  I don't really like spending.

I always think it is odd to see people clap when a bidder wins something at an auction.  The winner simply paid more than anyone else was willing to pay.  That might be an odd perspective, but paying more than anybody else just doesn't seem like a win to me.

I don't want to pay more for something than anybody else is willing to pay.  I'd prefer to find bargains.  I guess I just don't feel smart enough to find bargains at auctions attended by really serious collectors who know a lot more about the items than I do.  To do very well economically, and I know it isn't all about the economics, you'd have to be able to spot items that aren't fully appreciated by other bidders.  Of course if you love an item and just have to have to own it, I can see why you'd be perfectly content to pay more for it than anyone else.  And I suppose that if you do your homework, you just might spot a real bargain that no one else sees and end up doing very well.

If I was going to start a collection, I would try to find something that is fairly rare.  Maybe something like Panama cobs.  There aren't many of them.  They aren't so expensive that you have to be a millionaire to buy one.  And if you put together a small but good collection, study them and publicize them, you really have something that would appreciate in price.

One thing I don't like about some items, is that there might be a very limited number of them now, but some new discovery could make them much less rare.  I'd hate to have the only X, Y or Z, and then learn that ten more were discovered.  That could hurt, or it could possibly help if they were unique examples and all of a sudden became popular.  I'd prefer to know that if there is a limited number, a big new supply wouldn't likely come onto the market all of a sudden.

For the auction business it is fortunate that not everybody is like me. And I wouldn't even have said this if I thought I'd influence all the people who like paying for the things they collect.  I'm sure I won't change anybody's feelings or auction behavior, so no problem.

I could imagine building a collection to study, but probably won't at this point in my life.  Of the collectibles I have, most I've either found or they have some family history.

I find a lot of things that I use.  Most of my hats were found on a beach or somewhere.  You can find all kinds of hats in the wild.  I prefer to find things.

I was out walking down the river one day recently and came across a pair of ruined waders that some fisherman probably discarded.  I cut the boots off and now use the boots all the time.  I like to recycle like that.  I don't like waste.  You might say I'm cheap.  It is environmentally friendly.

I love auctions despite what I said above.  I like to study the collections.  Auctions provide an opportunity to look at things you might never see elsewhere.  And auctions tell you something about how other people value things.  If I fall in love with some item, I might even bid on it, but in the mean time, I'll mostly watch and study.

I'll continue to enjoy tracking my wild game. even if will look at it from time to time in the zoo.

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They are saying that El Nino is this year the strongest ever and will continue into 2016.  Whatever pattern we've been having it certainly has kept our beaches building near continually for at least two years now.

The next two or three days on the Treasure Coast, the winds will be continually shifting about every two or so hours. That is all to little effect though.  We'll have something like a two foot surf.  The tides are not as high now either.

Henri is still out there but will not affect us much.  The National Hurricane Center isn't showing any other tropical weather in the Atlantic except for one disturbance barely off the coast of Africa.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

11/9/14 Ancient Glitter Covered Tunnel With Artifacts. Beach Gold Prospecting and Mining In Alaska. 10,000 Year Old Arrowhead Found By Ten Year Old.

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Not Indiana Jones
Source: Telegraph.Co.Uk link below.

An interesting 2000-year-old tunnel below the Temple of the Plumed Serpent is coated with powdered glitters so that when a torch is lit it appears to sparkle like the night sky.  The 340-foot tunnel has yielded thousands of relics.

Here is the link to the video.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/archaeology/11198329/Mexico-powder-glittered-tunnel-reveals-ancient-relics.html

Source: Nevada-outback-gems.com web site linked below.

Maybe you've watched the TV show Berring Sea Gold.  Don't you love to see those guys dredging under the ice?  

Prospectors have worked the beaches around Nome with a variety of types of equipment.  I've never seen anything about anyone nugget shooting with detectors on the beaches there.  I'm sure they so if it works.

Anyhow here is a web site with a lot of great information about gold mining in that area.  Included is information about old creek beds that are now under water off shore and a lot of other good information.

It is worth remembering, that like up there, our beaches were once way out from where they are now.  There is a lot of archaeology to be done under he water.

Here is a link to that jam-packed site about gold mining along the beaches of Nome.

http://nevada-outback-gems.com/prospecting_info/nome_gold.htm


A 10 year old boy found a 10,000 year old arrowhead on a New Jersey beach. 

Here is the link for the story and video.

http://www.aol.com/article/2014/08/26/boy-finds-10-000-year-old-artifact-on-beach/20952328/


Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comast.net