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Bronze Seal Found on Trail of the Atocha.This is a well preserved bronze seal. It is, in my limited experience, unusually large.
I'm still watching for a seal featuring an eagle that produced a wax seal that I once found.
Recently I showed a Brazilian gold bar. That bar will be auctioned in the upcoming Sedwick Coins auction, so if you want it, you have a chance to win it.
It will be in the Tenth Sedwick Coins Treasure and World Coin Auction, beginning on Oct. 25, 2011, on iCollector.com.
Numerous bison bones were found at an apparent ancient kill site in Lake Victoria in Minnesota. The site was originally discovered when a fisherman reeled in a bison bone while fishing in the lake.
For more of that story, here is the link.
http://www.echopress.com/event/image/id/11824/headline/bison%20bones/
Did you know that you can find fossilized Ice Age bison bones on some Florida Treasure Coast beaches? Its true. You can. Also you can find bison fossils in the Peace River. I've been lucky enough to have found a few of those in the past. Some bison fossils have also been found in the Suwanee River and other places.
And there are now a few bison being raised in Florida today, including some roaming free at Payne's Prairie Preserve State Park.
As expected, I received a variety of emails concerning Art McKee after showing a couple of old photos yesterday.
Jorge Y. said the museum building still stands, and that it was turned into a shopping mall, and then into a Montessori school.
You can see it as you drive down through the Keys. It looks like a castle.
Great View of the Museum From the Early Days.This picture is from a old slide taken when James F.'s father took him down to see the museum decades ago. Thanks for sharing James.
One person (John) mentioned that Art once gave him directions to a couple of wreck sites to dive on.
Thanks for sharing your personal stories. The mention of Art always results in a lot of correspondence. You can tell he left a mark on a lot of people.
Oh, there were a number of artifacts from the McKee museum that sold in the last Sedwick Coins auction.
Treasure Coast Beach Forecast and Conditions.
There are no storms in the Atlantic that you need to be concerned with now.
It seems that the temperature is becoming a little more comfortable.
The wind is from the west. You can expect and continuation of those nicely formed surfing waves. The seas are running about three feet and maybe a touch more through the weekend.
It would seem that after the week of waves that we've had, conditions might be decent for non-metallic finds in the wrack line. I've already heard of one nice piece of shipwreck wood with a spike in it being found this week. I have a photo of that, which I'll probably show tomorrow.
I think it would be a good time to walk some out-of-the-way places to do a little scouting. Then when the seas calm down a little, hit the most promising looking low tide areas.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@coomcast.net
