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

1/17/18 Report - Very Cool Bottle Story. Stolen CTX. Detector Skills and Difficult Conditions.

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Larry Holding B0ttle In Front of Poster Showing Same Bottle
Photo submitted by Larry.

Here is a cool story from Larry in South Florida that goes with the above photo.

... I bought some junk at a church sale for $2, including a bottle. I knew it was a United Drug (owned the rexall brand) bottle, and found just one online, same size and shape tho a different color. No info on the bottle in the ebay description.

A couple days later, my brother said, "hey, look in the bathroom." I go in, say, "what is it?" "Look at the poster"

Some 40+ years ago, our stepmother had hung a 1970s reproduction poster of a 1920s advertising poster behind the toilet. I'd looked at that poster while I stood in front of the toilet doing my thing, hundreds of times.

It featured a bottle of hair tonic. The bottle was the exact same bottle I had bought, except possibly for color.

Sometimes you don't see what's right in front of you. Btw, my bottle has a hand applied rim, and bubbles in the glass, so may be pre 1920, the date United Drug started using the Rexall trademark. UD began operations as UD in 1903, so my bottle may predate the advert by a bit.

Thanks for sharing Larry. Unfortunately some one stole Larry's CTX. Below is the description. Keep an eye out.

Stolen: ctx with 11 and 6" coils, no headphones, and just the aa battery pack was stolen last week in miami, serial 40446601029.

Hope  Larry gets his detector back!

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I've been talking about the factors involved in successful metal detecting.  I already talked about location and time on task and a little about a factor that I called effort.  Now I'm ready to talk about a complex and interesting factor that I'll simply call skill.

There are a lot of types of skill that are involved with metal detecting.  Knowing how to use your detector is one skill that can be broken down into a variety of components.

For optimal performance, you must know how to set up your detector for the particular type of target you are seeking and the environment you are working.  While it can be very easy to turn on a detector and use the default settings, making adjustments for optimal performance can require a good bit of experience.  There are times to turn down sensitivity, use different modes, change detectors, ground balance again, etc.  Some detectors are easier to master than others.  Detectors that offer more adjustments and options can take longer.

Another part of knowing your detector is understanding what it is telling you.  Do you know what different targets sound like and how to correctly interpret the readings?  Can you recognize a layer of black sand hidden below the surface and do you now how to identify a target in black sand or heavy mineralization?   Can you tell the size, shape and depth of a target from the signal?  Those are just a couple examples.

Understanding your detector also involves knowing the area of sensitivity under the coil.  What depth is penetrated under different parts of the coil, for example, and what kinds of things will be easily detected or not detected.

In the past I've given tips on how to develop some of the above skills.  I spent a good bit of time on techniques for getting to know your detector better, for example.  I don't think most people spend enough time experimenting with their detector.

Skillful detector use involves knowing how to sweep the coil for best results:  That involves more factors than just coil speed and height.

Search patterns are another part of using a detector.  Can you run a good grid pattern?  Can you use other search patterns effectively.

When you break it down, knowing your detector involves several factors, but the skill factor involves more than knowing how to use your detector.  It also involves knowing how to read a beach and how to work difficult conditions.

Working rough water is one of those factors.  Some of the best hunting in shallow water will be when the water is rough, so if you can't do that you'll miss out on some good opportunities.  Covering ground thoroughly in rough can be difficult.  So can retrieving targets.

Other difficult conditions include things that I've mentioned before such as steep terrain, rocky bottoms, heavy mineralization, etc.

I'm going to quit there for today.  There are other skills that  I'll probably in the near future.

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We continue to have a lot of north wind but the surf has decreased.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net