6/21/20 Report - Some Treasures Can Find You. Was Fenn Treasure A Hoax? Shipwreck Archaeology Symposium.

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Fenn Treasure.

Source: CNN.  See link below.

(CNN) — As soon as Forrest Fenn announced that his treasure was found earlier this month, rumors swirled about whether it had really been found or if the treasure hunt had been a hoax all along.

Well, this week, Fenn tried to put some of those to rest by unveiling the first photos of the discovered treasure.

On Tuesday, the 89-year-old art and antiquities collector posted three pictures of the treasure on dalneitzel.com, a fan blog dedicated to the treasure hunt that Fenn sparked 10 years ago after he published clues in his autobiography "The Thrill of the Chase." ...

Here is that link.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/forrest-fenn-treasure-chest-pictures-trnd/index.html

Some think that the Fenn treasure was a hoax and never hidden.

Thanks to William K. for the link.

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Below are the contents of the Iron, Steel, and Steamship Archaeology Seminar from 2006.  It includes a long list of papers on shipwreck artifacts and their corrosion, distribution, cleaning and conservation.  You'll probably find at least a few articles of interest if you browse the content listing.

And here is the link to access any of those papers that might interest you.


https://www.academia.edu/17384667/The_latest_find_._With_Delgado_Johnson_Murphy_et_al_on_SubMarine_Explorer_a_Civil_War_era_in_Panama?email_work_card=title

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Some treasures are very elusive.  You hunt for yeas and may never find them, but it seems there are other treasures that find you.  In my previous post I mentioned some treasures that found me.  They are treasures that just fell into my lap, so to speak.  I didn't target them.  I didn't hunt them - they came to me.  Here is how it happened.

I had done some consulting for the institution and knew one of the librarians from my consulting work.  She knew I appreciated books, and since the library was becoming computerized, they were deaccessing a lot of the books.  I was told I could look through their holdings to see if there were any that I would like to have, and if they were scheduled to be deaccessed, I could have them.

If you know me, I like books - especially old books.  I found an entire collection of old books in a room that was never used.  The collection included about 50 old and very collectable books going back to the 18th century, including some valuable first editions.  Many were history books.  The collection was stored in a locked room in a library for years but were hardly ever accessed or used.  In fact many were in a locked cabinet.  They were just the kind of thing I love.  I told them that those books were something special and should be taken care of. They weren't just old books and were very valuable in more ways than one.

The library tried to find a university library that wanted the collection, but none of the large university libraries responded.  After a year of trying to find a good institutional home for the books, they finally gave up and decided that I should have the books since I was the one that appreciated them and alerted them to their value.  It seemed like those books found me, and I'm glad they did.

A historical society was delighted to take a couple of the books that fit their needs, but didn't fit in with the primary focus of the collection.  Other than those two books, I received the entire collection.

There isn't much interest in old and collectible books anymore and most librarians don't know the value of books as collectibles.  I've seen books on library shelves that are well over a hundred years old that have never been read.  I know they've not been read because the pages were still untrimmed.  I've also seen valuable old books on library shelves that were destroyed by librarians or patrons that did not appreciate or care for them.  I hated to watch as one old and very valuable oversized leather bound volume of Durer prints was ruined by one patron who photocopied each of the pages on a copier, which, of course, destroyed the binding.  It would have been worth thousands of dollars and was probably destroyed and could have been eventually thrown out.

So some treasures you have to hunt for long and hard, some beckon you, and others you.  If you truly treasure an item for more than its economic value, it seems there is a better chance that kind of  treasure will find you.

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Disturbances are flashing on the National Hurricane Center map.  There is one disturbance up by the Carolinas that could develop in the next few days.

Locally we are having more flat surf.  That is good for the salvage season, but isn't doing the beaches much good.

Happy hunting,
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6/9/20 Report - Fossilized Sea Shells. Fenn Treasure Found. One Mistake I've Repeated.

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Fossil Shells.

Photo and Find by Melissa B.

I received these photos and the following email from Melissa B.

I found your article on fossil shells with unique crystals yesterday. I was searching the internet after some interesting finds I stumbled across with my kids in an estuary in Florida. These shells were exposed after the heavy rain we’ve had and I believe they were brought in with the parking lot fill. They were all in the parking lot area of the estuary especially in the eroded areas from heavy rain. Here are pics of what we found. Can you help me to identify? There were some interesting crystals on a few of the shells also.

Fossil Shell

Photo by Melissa B.

I've done a few posts on fossilized shells.  Here are a couple.

https://treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com/2015/05/52815-report-unique-beach-treasures.html

https://treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com/2018/07/72918-report-floridas-most-collected.html

Fossilized shells can be fascinating treasures.  Some are fluorescent and some have nice gem crystals.

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As I reported yesterday, the Forrest Fenn treasure has been found.

Millionaire art collector Forrest Fenn was told he would die of cancer in 1998. And wanting to leave his mark on the world and help others get into the outdoors, he devised a plan: Fenn decided he would take his 10-by-10-by-6-inch bronze Romanesque chest and load it with his best treasures — ancient jewels, gold, jade, diamonds (now estimated to be worth 2 million dollars)—take it into the mountains, and die beside it.

But, before dying, he would “architect” a poem that, if solved, would lead an explorer exactly to the treasure.

A twist of good fortune kept Forrest alive, and he now resides in Santa Fe where he writes books, gives hints, and frequently engages with those on the chase.

That comes from this Fenn Treasure web site (link below).

https://www.fftreasure.com/

Forrest Fenn received the treasure of life for more years than maybe he was expecting.  Despite the prognosis, Fenn is still alive, and has mixed feelings about the treasure being found.

It took years for the puzzle to be solved and the treasure found.  It undoubtedly took a lot of persistence to solve that problem.

The person that found the Fenn treasure has chosen to remain anonymous.


A treasure chest full of gold, jewels and other valuables worth more than $1m (£790,000) is said to have been found in the Rocky Mountains.

Antiquities collector Forrest Fenn says he hid the bronze chest more than a decade ago, creating a treasure hunt for people to find it.

Thousands of people searched for it, many quitting their jobs and using up their savings. Four people died.

Now, Mr Fenn says, a man from "back East" has finally tracked it down.

"It was under a canopy of stars in the lush, forested vegetation of the Rocky Mountains and had not moved from the spot where I hid it more than 10 years ago," Mr Fenn, an 89-year-old millionaire from New Mexico, said in a statement...

Here is the link for more about that.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52966449

It took ten years and a lot of persistence.

The Rockies offer many treasures, natural and otherwise.

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I'll describe one more of my mistakes today.  I often learn from my mistakes, but some take more repetitions than others.

This mistake doesn't apply to small finds like coins, but this is a mistake I've made more times than I care to remember.

When walking a long distance and expecting to return the same route (along the shore, for example), I'll often leave larger finds to pick up later when I am on  my way back.  Several things can happen.  One is that I get focused on my metal detecting and pass up the item on the way back.  That is easy enough to do.  Someone else can also find the item, but sometimes I just forget about it on the way back.

One thing I often do is take the item up to the dunes and put it where it is not likely to be noticed. Since there is a good chance I'll have my nose to the ground on the return trip, some kind of marker can be helpful - maybe a big line in the sand a pile of stones or something that.   A rising tide or big wave can remove a line or move or obscure other markers, so that doesn't always work out.

If the item is very good, don't take any chances.  When you really don't want to take a chance on losing an item, it is better to not leave it behind.  Too many things can happen.

You can find some pretty big things.  I once carried this six-foot iron anchor on my shoulder a couple hundred yards and up over a high dune.  I wouldn't even attempt it today.

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Wednesday the surf will still be small, but later in the day it will start to increase.



Defund the criminals.

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6/8/20 Report - Shipwreck Bochie or Manillas From 1600s Wreck. Fenn Treasure Finally Found. Sebastian Beaches.

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Sebastian Sunday

Beachcam image submitted by JaminJack.

Jaminjack sent these two beach images.  The first was a little earlier when there were fewer people out.

You can see the scooped front beach and some dips in the water.

Sebastian Later Sunday.

Beachcam image submitted by JaminJack.

Thanks Jack.

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Odyssey Marine explored a shipwreck found at the Western Approaches to the English channel.  the wreck, dated to circa 1660 - 1680, appears to be a merchant vessel of the Royal Africa Company.  36 iron cannon, a quantity of elephant tusks and copper bracelets were among the artifacts discovered on the site.

Manillas or Bochie

Bracelets Used As Money in West Africa Up To The 1940s.

Source: Odyssey Marine, Paper 23.

In Odyssey Marine Paper 23, bronze or copper bracelets that were used as money in West Africa since at least the 1500s, were discussed.  It is thought that originally they were created by the indigenous Africans from rods or spikes salvaged from shipwrecks.  Later they were manufactured in great numbers by Europeans who traded them for slaves, gold, ivory and other products.

 West African exchange demanded enormous quantities of this form of currency. As early as 1504-07, just one trading station along the Guinea coast imported 287,813 manillas from Portugal (Davies, 2002: 47). In modern terms of monetary exchange they yielded high dividends. In 1505 a Portuguese merchant reported that at Calabar a large elephant tooth could be exchanged for one manilla and a slave purchased for eight to ten copper manillas (Einzig, 1949: 150-1; Johansson, 1967: 12)…

The Odyssey paper provides a detailed study of the wreck, including much damage by fishing trawlers and provides many pictures of the site and artifacts found on the site.

Here is the link for more of the study.

https://www.academia.edu/3597456/Neil_Cunningham_Dobson_and_Sean_A._Kingsley_A_Late_17th-Century_Armed_Merchant_Vessel_in_the_Western_Approaches_Site_35F_?email_work_card=title


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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Famed art and antiquities collector Forrest Fenn, who hid $1 million in treasure in the Rocky Mountain wilderness a decade ago, said Sunday that the chest of goods has been found...


Fenn posted clues to the treasure’s whereabouts online and in a 24-line poem that was published in his 2010 autobiography “The Thrill of the Chase."...


Fenn told The New Mexican in 2017 that the chest weighs 20 pounds (9 kilograms) and its contents weigh another 22 pounds (10 kilograms). He said he delivered the chest to its hiding place by himself over two separate trips...

Here is the link for more about that.

1 million treasure hidden in Rocky Mountains found - ABC 33/40abc3340.com › news › offbeat › 1-million-treasure-hidden-in-rocky-...

Thanks to DJ for  that link.

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Cristobal weakened as it moved inland.

On the Treasure Coast we'll have a few days of smooth surf.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

8/1/17 Report - Tropical Storm Emily Downgraded. Fenn Treasure Hunters Dead. Florida Anthropologist Archives. Fun Book.

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Source: nhc.noaa.gov

Emily has been downgraded to a tropical depression and is on her way out to the ocean.  At this time there is no other storms to watch.

On the Treasure Coast the surf will be just a touch bigger today and the go back to one or two feet or Tuesday.

The wind will be off-shore today, and in a day or two will be back to a south wind again.

There isn't anything that will significantly change beach conditions this week.

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The hunt for a treasure chest said to contain millions in gold may have claimed its third victim.

Eric Ashby, 31, went missing last month while searching for the treasure art dealer Forrest Fenn claims to the Rocky Mountains, his family said. Now, with the discovery of a body in the Arkansas River, friends and family of Ashby fear he might be victim of a hunt that has already claimed the lives of two Colorado men...

Here is the link for more about that.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/body-found-in-river-could-be-missing-treasure-hunter/ar-AApboHL?li=BBnb7Kz

Thanks to Dean for that link.

Wkipedia says, The Fenn Treasure is a treasure reportedly worth over a million dollars supposedly hidden by art dealer and author Forrest Fenn in the Rocky Mountains Fenn has said he is going to go back and get it when the value is inflated to 10 million dollars.[2]

According to Fenn, many people have claimed to have found the treasure, but no one has provided any evidence to him supporting their claim. As of July 2017, Fenn has stated "The treasure remains where I hid it about 7 years ago". In May 2017, Fenn was asked: "Has anyone determined the nine clues and what they represent?" and his response was: "I don't know that anybody has told me the clues in the right order", leading to speculation all of the clues have been solved, but the chest remains hidden. Forrest reconfirmed searchers have been within 200 feet of the treasure and many within 500 feet.[3] The Thrill of the Chase and Too Far to Walk books chronicle Fenn's life as an adrenaline junky and the treasure hunt has attracted many thrill seekers.

Treasure hunting, like life i general, can involve dangers of different kinds.  There is no treasure worth dying for.  Be careful.

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You can find a lot of good information on the internet.  I was doing some research and found all of the issues of Florida Anthropologists, beginning with the first issue in 1948 and running up through 2016.  The first article in the first issue was written by Hale Smith and is about a Spanish mission site in Florida.  You might want to browse through the archives.

Here is the link.

http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00027829/00097/64j

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Here is a fun book written in 1859 that you can read free online.  Here is the title.

The Museum of Perilous Adventures and Daring Exploits; Being a Record of Thrilling Narratives, Heroic Achievements and Hazardous Enterprises, Interspersed with Numerous Accounts of the Most Singular and Entertaining, Facts, Found in History.

Now that is a title.

Click here if you want to take a look at the ebook.

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Happy hunting,

TreasureGuide@comcast.net

6/26/17 Report - Kang Hsi Porcelain. Silver Cleaning Cloth. Fenn Treasure Hunters Die.

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Kang Hsi Displayed At St. Lucie County Historical Museum
Photo submitted by Darrel S.

The porcelain shown above was on display at the St. Lucie County Historical Museum that is located near the East side of the big bridge on the south causeway from Fort Pierce to Hutchinson Island.  It is near the aquarium and is easy to miss.  The link below will give you the address and more information about the museum.

http://www.stlucieco.gov/departments-services/a-z/parks-recreation-and-facilities-department/st-lucie-county-regional-history-center

I showed a new find of Kang Hsi in my 5/18/17 post. Smaller pieces can be found on the beach at time. Small pieces can have some value and are sometimes mounted in jewelry. I've shown a few pieces that were found on the beach.

A stack of Kang Hsi plates were once seen on South Hutchinson Island newly exposed by erosion. That was back years ago. The detectorist did not bother to collect them. He thought they were from a beach picnic or something and didn't think much more about it. When he learned what they were, he went back and couldn't find them. That is why I talk so much about being able to recognize various types of treasure. Big mistakes can be made when you do not realize what you are looking at. A stack of Kang Hsi plates could be worth quite a bit.

I once did a post on how to identify fine China like Kang Hsi.  It can easily be distinguished from other blue and white old pottery.

You can sometimes find small pieces in shell piles.

If you do any research on Kang Hsi, you'll find that it is spelled in a variety of ways.

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The museum owns some very early Fort Pierce phone books that I found before they were discarded by what was then the Indian River Community College.  

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People have died seeking the famous Fenn treasure and the police want people to stop looking for it.

Here is the link for more about that.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/police-urge-treasure-hunters-to-stop-after-latest-death/ar-BBD7vqZ?li=BBnbfcL

Thanks to Dean for submitting the link.

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I have a polishing cloth that I used for years.  The bag it came in reads, "Miracle All Purpose Polishing Cloth."  I wouldn't call it a miracle, but it works.  What is most amazing to me, is that the cloth still works after all these years.  I looked it up and found that they still sell them.

It won't take heavy corrosion off things, but it will remove the black patina off oxidized silver.  You might want to look into it.

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To everything there is a season.  It is now hurricane season and also salvage season.  For beach hunters, depending upon where you are and what you hunt, it can be either a slow season or productive season.

The Treasure Coast is supposed to have a couple weeks of one-foot surf.  There is no tropical weather on the Atlantic map right now.

The tides are pretty big.  We've been having some nice negative tides.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

5/16/17 Report - Artificial Intelligence Helped Find Lost Treasure Hunter. Can It Help You Find Treasure? Colonial Period Items of Personal Adornment.

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Find and photo By Captain Jonah Matinez.

Jonah sent me this picture several months ago but I never posted it before.  Looks like it might have held some decorative stones.

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A treasure hunter that disappeared while seeking the Fenn treasure was located by with the help of artificial intelligence.

When Randy Bilyeu disappeared, he was hunting for the Fenn Treasure, a chest allegedly filled with gold, precious stones, and jewelry, supposedly hidden in the Rocky Mountains north of Santa Fe, New Mexico...

Essentially, it’s an artificial intelligence system that figures out the current location of someone (or thing) using a data set of known previous locations. For example, geospatial abduction can pinpoint the location of a bear’s cave using the coordinates of animal’s droppings, or a serial killer’s address using the coordinates of known killings. Serial killers usually attack within six miles from their home, and bears will stay within the same distance of their cave when they go out on their daily hunts or bathroom trips. Shakarian has designed algorithms that take information like that into account, ingest data points, and, after ruling out obviously impossible locations like lakes, rivers and so on, come up with the most feasible solution to current whereabouts. As with most algorithms of this sort, the more data—the more killings or droppings—the more likely for the solution to be correct.

https://qz.com/770022/ai-for-missing-persons-found-fenn-treasure-hunter-randy-bilyeu/

I bolded and underlined two words in the above excerpt to draw your attention to the fact that AI systems can be used to find things.  The same AI system that helped find the lost treasure hunter could also be used to find treasure.

Artificial intelligence is being talked about a lot these days.  Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google all offer AI capabilities to various industries.  AI was one of my interests some thirty years ago.  I constructed a couple of few "expert systems." Now artificial intelligence is receiving new attention and is being applied to more significant tasks.

The treasure industry could benefit tremendously from AI but probably won't.  There are a variety of reasons for that.  It requires expertise that most treasure hunters do not have and do not want to take the time to develop.  You almost have to start with the computer skills and then bring those skills to the application.

The tons of GPS data stored over the years by the treasure salvage in Florida provides a very rich database.  That would be an ideal starting place for an AI project.  The data has already been computerized for the most part.

AI attempts to recognize patterns in existing data and make predictions from incoming data so the AI system is only as good as the data and the algorithms.

 I always enjoyed taking big data sets, soaking it in and analyzing the heck out of it.  If I was thirty or forty years younger, I would definitely be doing that.  So much in life and treasure hunting is about timing.

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It would be easy enough for a manufacturer to install an expert system into a detector that would guide you to the best settings for a specific piece of ground and target type.  You heard it here first.

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Here is a book you might like - especially if you find old things and try to identify them.

The book is American Artifacts of Personal Adornment, 1680-1820: A Guide to Identification and Interpretation by Carolyn White.

Here is a table from the book showing the items discussed.

Here is the link to the book, some of which can be viewed as a preview.

https://books.google.com/books?id=aWsnAAAAQBAJ&dq=artifacts+of+spanish+colonial+period

Aglets are often found and can easily be confused with a number of other items.  They are typically made of copper and in the shape of a rolled cone.

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The surf is picking up a little.  Expect something like three to four feet along the Treasure Coast.  The wind is from the east.  I hope to get out to the beach in the next couple of days.

Happy hunting,
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7/27/16 Report - Treasure Hunting Vacation Hot Spots. Treasure Hunter Perishes While Hunting Fenn Treasure. Alamo Discoveries. Benny Bills.

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Summer is a time when lot of people travel.  I always like to detect new locations.  You won't know the new locations like the locals, but you can do well anyhow

I've done very well when trying out new locations.  I was often surprised by what the locals missed and wondered how it could happen.

I liked detecting the lakes of Minnesota, the beaches of Pensacola, backwaters of Milton Alabama, as well as the Caribbean Islands, to name a few.

The locals don't always get everything.  In fact sometimes they leave some very good hunting.  That has been my experience.

Dean sent me the following link to an article on vacation treasure hunting hot spots.

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2016/07/27/8-vacation-hot-spots-for-serious-treasure-hunters.html

Thanks Dean.

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A treasure hunter who disappeared this year while searching for an author's cache of gold and jewels in the New Mexico wilderness was confirmed dead by authorities Tuesday after his remains were discovered west of Santa Fe...

Bilyeu disappeared in early January while searching for antiquities dealer and writer Forrest Fenn's $2 million trove in northern New Mexico.

Here is the link to that story.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/07/27/authorities-id-remains-in-new-mexico-wilderness-as-those-missing-treasure-hunter.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl7%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D-1173593424_htmlws-sb-bb

New locations can be a lot of fun, but they can also present dangers that you aren't aware of or aren't prepared for.

Be cautious when you are working new and different kinds of locations.

Thanks to Dean and C Man for sending this link.

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I don't like taking metal detectors as carry-on anymore.  I used to do that a lot, and I don't know of anyone having a lot of trouble with that, but when flying, I prefer to send my equipment ahead by mail so that it is waiting when I arrive.

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Texas archaeologists may have found more of the Alamo. 

Spanish colonial adobe bricks discovered at a dig site in downtown San Antonio's Alamo Plaza may have made up part of the mission's original western wall, researchers announced Monday, although more analysis is needed to verify the architectural function of the centuries-old bricks.

The dig, the first of its kind at the Alamo, is the first phase in a larger effort by state and local officials to renovate the historical landmark.

Here is the link fo r more of that article.

https://www.texastribune.org/2016/07/25/alamo-archaeological-dig-yields-colonial-wall-remn/

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Have you heard about "Benny bills?"  There is a philanthropist that anonymously leaves one hundred dollar bills.

Here is how the article begins.

A mystery philanthropist has been spreading cheer one $100 bill at a time for more than three years in and around Salem Oregon.

He randomly hides the bills to be found at stores, markets, fairs and festivals, surprising and delighting unsuspecting shoppers and patrons.

When the first reports surfaced in May 2013, I christened him with the nickname Benny because Benjamin Franklin is on the $100 bill. Not long after, when it appeared others might be trying to steal his thunder, he began signing his bills...

Here is the link for the rest of the article.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/humankind/2016/07/14/mystery-philanthropist-hiding-100-bills-all-over-city/87036544/

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Happy hunting,
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1/31/16 Report - Man Seeking Fenn Treasure Now Lost. Doll and Figurine Finds.

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A Few Doll Or Figurine Finds From the Treasure Coast.

One thing I like about metal detecting is that you can find almost anything.  It isn't limited to metal objects.  If you keep your eyes open you'll find all kinds of things.

Besides being interesting objects, non-metallic finds can give you good clues for metal detecting.  All kinds of objects can tell you something about what went on at that location in the past.

I've found a good number of dolls and figurines.  Here are a few.  Not only do they give you a date range, but they also suggest something about the type of people that were in the area.

These are inexpensive figures.  My mother had a doll exactly like the first one when she was a child.

The doll arm is bisque.  I've also found arms and and legs which were higher quality.  They were painted and made of porcelain in Germany.  I sold those.

Unglazed tinted dolls with a matte finish are referred to as bisque dolls.  Bisque dolls appeared in France during the 1850s.   

Glossy "china dolls" were popular at the same time. Both the bisque and the shiny glazed "China dolls" were made from porcelain, but the term porcelain is often reserved for contemporary dolls.

In the group of inexpensive figurines shown above, the first doll is marked "JAPAN," the fourth is marked "MADE IN JAPAN," and the last one, the little kewpie doll, is marked, "MADE IN OCCUPIED JAPAN."

There is an active collector market for dolls, kewpie dolls, and objects made in occupied Japan.

Following the end of World War II in 1945 and until 1952, items imported from Japan to the United States had to be marked in a fashion indicating they came from Occupied Japan. Although four different marks were used on cups and saucers during this time ("Japan," "Made in Japan," "Occupied Japan," and "Made in Occupied Japan"), only the last two marks guarantee the pieces were made in the Occupied Japan timeframe. For serious Occupied Japan collectors, it is items with these two marks for which they search.  (Source: http://www.the4cs.com/~cathy/MIOJ/)

I've also found doll heads.

Of course dolls have been made for thousands of years and go back to ancient Greece and Egypt. 18th Century Eurpean dolls, were often made of wood, and it appears to me, generally had round heads and long necks.

Those shown above were all surface finds from the Treasure Coast.

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Forrest Fenn is now looking for a treasure hunter who disappeared while seeking the 2 million dollar Fenn Treasure.

Here is the link for that story.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/01/30/treasure-hunter-vanishes-searching-for-2-million-in-gold.html

Thanks to Dean R. for the link.

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The surf on the Treasure Coast is very small today.  It will be increasing very slowly for several days.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net