1/4/20 Report - Outlaw Remains Identified. Messages From Ancestors. Ephemera. Hand and Ink. Bigger Surf.

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

Source: See CNN link below.

(CNN)Bones discovered in an Idaho cave in 1979 and 1991 have been identified as the remains of Joseph Henry Loveless, a man who escaped from prison more than a century ago after being arrested for killing his wife. 

The identification, confirmed by the Clark County Sheriff's Office Tuesday, was initially made by non-profit volunteer organization DNA Doe Project, which said in a Facebook post that the "remains were preserved in the Buffalo Cave for as long as 63 years."...

Here is the link for more of the story.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/01/us/man-identified-100-years-later-trnd/index.html

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I mentioned how I am going to send a selection of old foreign coins to a child that seemed to be fascinated with a foreign coin that he found.  Susan B. commented on that and how she was affected by a gift of stamps that she received as a child.

Here is what she said.


When I was young, my father introduced us to stamp collecting. In my stamp book were black and white pages of pictures of stamps for all the countries in the world, and I remember the thrill when I placed my live stamp over the print one. There was a song I’d heard whose first verse said, “Far away places with strange sounding names...are calling, calling me.”

I’ve never lost that interest in what’s out there. That’s the gift you can give by sharing your collections.

Susan B.

Thanks Susan.

When I was once in the hospital as a child, I received a bag of unsorted stamps and a album to put them in.  I still have that stamp album as well as a few more.

Stamp collecting is very much like coin collecting.  Many of the same things apply, such as the importance or rarity and condition.  I found a couple inexpensive and partly filled stamp albums in thrift stores over the years.  I like old postcards too.

I guess I was a collector or treasure hunter long before I became a detectorist.  I liked looking through barns, sheds and attics and basements to find forgotten or lost treasures, and I found a lot of things that I treasure today, including a good selection of post cards, most of which document ancestors and family members that I never knew or only knew as a very young child.

Here is a small selection of New Year postcards that I picked up many years ago.  All were sent to one of my ancestors over one hundred years ago from his relatives.

New Year Post Cards Posted 1910 - 1913.

Today many of us can easily document our family tree by doing a little internet research.  We can get our DNA interpreted, but old post cards, letters and photographs give a more personal touch and add something you can't get any other way.  Like the coins we dig up, they allow us to touch a piece of the past.

Postcard Postmarked Dec. 29, 1912.

It appears somebody removed the stamp from this one.  I wonder if I did that.  Could be.

There is a movement in education to stop teaching cursive handwriting.  I know people will be using electronic signatures and typing on electronic devices rather than writing, but there are benefits to learning cursive.  Among those benefits are the aesthetic element, personal expression, developing eye/hand coordination, and being able to read old documents written in cursive.

Ink well to fountain pen and then to paper, you see the flow of hand and ink, then delivered from one rural home to another for one cent.

I feel fortunate that things like this postcard were saved rather than discarded.  I rescued some of them myself many years ago.  It provides detail to the family tree that DNA can not.

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John M. found this clump a couple days ago on a shipwreck beach and wondered what it might be.

Encrusted Clump Found by John M.

I told John I think it is probably an EO, encrusted iron object, and the iron might be pretty much dissolved.

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Sourcea: MagicSeaWeed.com.

Looks like we might be getting some higher surf before long.  The tides are flat today.

I'm still hoping someone will be able to learn something about the symbols on Steve's ring.

Happy hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net

5/20/19 Report - Treasure Lore of the Jensen and Sewall's Point Areas. Pirate Don Pedro Gilbert. Bottle Finds.

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

Source: Trial of the Twelve Spanish Pirates of the Schooner Panda, a Guinea Slaver

The Jensen and Sewall's Point area has been very much neglected in treasure lore.  There are many scattered rumors as well as finds and documented history, but the area hasn't received near the attention that has been focused on some other areas.  I'm amazed that one of Frank Hudson's books that lists 133 Florida treasure shipwrecks completely skips the area between Jupiter and Fort Pierce, for example.   It definitely deserves more attention than it receives.

A couple days ago I posted a photo of a cannon ball that was found in the Jensen area.  SW sent me the following email in response.

I am not surprised at the cannonball. I know of a small hand cannon found in a yard on Sailfish Point. There was mention by a mid 19 Century survey team of ruins in the Jenson area. I know the location but have never been granted permission to hunt. I believe it was a pirate hideout. It is also known ships used the river to bleach their sails. I have not been out for over a year due to a job change, less free time. I read the blog daily. Like you say there are many forms of treasure hunting. I still treasure hunt, just a different kind. I also have enough items to research probably the rest of my life. I have several fantastic sites I know of, some with maps. Just can't get permission to hunt. Maybe someday I will do a book, I tried a blog just do not have the dedication it takes. Best hunting to all. SW.

In this blog I've posted about Pirate Don Pedro Gilbert, who gave his name to Gilbert's Bar. If you want to research it, you should know that his name is sometimes spelled differently. In my 1/13/13 post, I gave a link to a free ebook about his trial (See photo above.)

I also remember once posting about a kid in a canoe finding a musket barrel at Indian Riverside Park, but I can't seem to find that post now.  If you can find it, please let me know.

On an old map there is an area on the river near Gilbert's Bar that is marked something like Bleech Yarde.  That is probably the same one that SW referred to.  I can't find the map right now either.

There is a TV show that I've seen a few times that shows Brent and Jonah and another fellow or two magging for a wreck off Jensen Beach.  At the end there was a find.  If I remember that one correctly, it was a sword hilt.

I'm having brain overload, I guess.

Then there are the middens at Mount Elizabeth and Mount Pisgah, and the remnants of a coquina building thought to be a pirate hangout.

But there is much more than that.  There was a novel written by a local author who conducted a lot of research and had maps and documentation of tunnels and gold at Sewall's Point.

There is also the story about a motel worker and maintenance man at an old motel that no longer exists that was located just north of the current Jensen Beach park who found a box or barrel of gold after a storm.

All that said, it is a very historic area with a lot of treasure lore.

Here is a little of the history of Sewall's Point.

http://sewallspoint.org/community/history/

 I just recalled another book by Frank Hudson that does place several found and buried treasures around that area the St. Lucie Inlet area.  The title is something like Buried Treasures of Florida's East Coast.

You can't put much faith in Frank Hudson, even though I mentioned him a couple times today.  His reputation for accuracy is not great.   I first mentioned him to illustrate how that area of the Treasure Coast hadn't received a lot of attention.

That isn't everything, of course.   I just listed the first things that I thought of.

Long ago I put together my own list derived from numerous sources.  

I  just found the printouts, but am not going to go through all of that now.

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Yesterday I posted some pictures of three Waterman's ink bottles that I found.  Here is another older one.  It is a two oz. bottle for no. 6 ink.

Waterman's Ink Bottle

Two Views.

Since I don't get many chances to metal detect anymore, I do some eye-balling when I get the urge to go hunting.  Last night I found two embossed Coca Cola bottles, which is what I was hoping to find, however they weren't as old or as valuable as what I hoped to find.

One was a Fort Pierce and the other was from Avon Park, which I think is a new one for me.

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Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net