6/14/18 Report - What I Found While Scouting For a Good Detecting Site. Mystery Item. Christopher Columbus Letter Returned To Vatican. High Tides.

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Glass Mystery Find Dated 1876.

I have one good high-priority detecting site, but I can work it only when things are just right, and that is rarely.  That is where I'd prefer to be spending my time, but I have to wait for the right set of circumstances.

While waiting for the chance to get back to my preferred site, I went out to scout for other promising spots.  While scouting around,  I found some glass items of interest that gave me an approximate date on a somewhat promising site.   I hope to detect that site as soon as I can.

One of the finds was the glass mystery item shown above.  I don't know what it is or which side is supposed to be up.  The bottom half (as shown in the photo) is void with just the open ended cone extending up into it.  The top half is solid other than the opening that goes through the central part.

Below are two additional views - one from each end.

Opening Into Hollow Side.

Opening That Extends Through The Solid Side.

This is the side that has the patent date on it.  It is difficult to see but clearly reads NOVR 1876.

Any ideas or help on what this is will be greatly appreciated.

Helping to date the site, another item of similar age was found close to the above item.

Boericke and Tafel, New York Bottle Find.

This one was easy to research.  It would date to between 1869 and 1883, so it seems the site might provide some late 19th century coins.

In 1869, F. E. Boericke and A. J. Tafel formed the partnership under the name of Boericke and Tafel. Together they bought the pharmacy and book-publishing business of William Radde in New York City. A. J. Tafel moved to New York to manage the business.

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In 1883, F. E. Boericke, in ill health, retired from the partnership. A. J. Tafel formed a new partnership with F. E.'s sons, Felix and Frank. In 1901, Adolph L. Tafel, the son of A. J. Tafel, entered the business.

Information from: http://julianwinston.com/archives/bt/bt_history.php

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A copy of a letter by Christopher Columbus that was stolen and replaced with a forgery was returned to the Vatican.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/14/europe/christopher-columbus-stolen-letter-vatican/index.html

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I adding bottles to my TGBottleBarn.blogspot.com website.

We're definitely into summer conditions now.  There will be more small surf this week, but we are getting some nice high and low tides.

Happy hunting,

TreasureGuide@comcast.net

5/31/18 Report - Illustration Showing How Sand is Moved. Deadly Lightning.

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

Shallow Water Sand Spit

As you probably know, I spend a lot of time talking about how sand and other items move on a beach and in the shallow water.  That is critical information for any detectorist who wants to understand what is going on and where coins and things will most likely be found.  Today I'm going to try to show a developing sand spit.

In the above photo, there is a sand spit that runs from the bottom right of the photo to near the top center of the photo.  I'll outline that below.

Also there was water hitting the spit from two directions.  I'll also try to highlight that.

The predominant direction of the waves is illustrated by the blue line labeled A.  In deeper water that was the direction (from the upper right corner towards the center of the picture ) of all the wind driven waves.  As you can see things were different in the shallow water.

Near the orange circle, labeled D, there seemed to be a point where the waves bent and came up onto the sand bar as shown by C.  I watched this a little earlier before the bar was covered by water and waves were coming from about two o'clock and there were also waves hitting the bar from about 10 o'clock.  I wish I had my camera at that time.

The orange spot (D) would be the first place I'd check with a metal detector, however the dip was not nearly deep enough at this time.

The waves coming onto the bar from the left were getting bent and breaking on the sand spit.  You could see how the spit was bending the waves coming from that direction.

The following illustration shows waves hitting the spit from both the right and left.

Yellow Lines Indicate Waves Coming From Left
and Orange Lines Indicate Waves Coming From Right.

I came back the next morning and, as you would expect, the spit had changed a little.  The tide was lower and you could see more of the sand.  It had changed a little, but you can still see the waves wrapping around the point.

The water was funneling through the low spot and then encountering the slope, and having no where to go, piled up on the slope and the spit.  The waves appear to slow wherever it is shallower.  That causes the waves to bend.  There was undoubtedly also some water bouncing off the hump of sand at the upper left and bouncing back towards the spit.

Layers of Sand Built Up On Left Side of Spit.

Pshewww!  I finally got that done.  I spent a lot of time trying to upload a video but never got it to work.

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A Lake Worth woman was killed by lightning.

https://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/weather/lake-worth-woman-killed-lightning-strike-parkland-injured/Chbg6q5PcbM71opQGjpF6I/

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I spent a lot of time on the illustration above.  I'll get back to some other things I had planned in then near future.

Check out the TGBottleBarn.blogspot.com.

I'll keep adding Treasure Coast bottles as I get a chance.

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On the Treasure Coast have a one foot surf for a few days.  That makes for easy shallow water hunting.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net