10/19/17 Report - Treasure Coast Beaches. Pewter Find and Testing Pewter. Pavement Treasures.

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

John Brooks Looking South Wednesday Afternoon.

I got out to take a look at a few beaches Wednesday.  You can see them here.

I thought yesterday's north swells might do something, but it didn't do much to these South Hutchinson Island beaches.

John Brooks Looking North Wednesday Afternoon.

Even though the high tide had been fairly high on the beaches, there was no significant erosion.

The slope was mushy down to the flat area, which was nice and firm.  I would normally check out that flat wet sand area.

Walton Rocks Wednesday Afternoon.

The sand in front of the beach was high out about 70 yards or so.  There was only a slight dip in front of the beach.

These beaches didn't look real promising.  There could be some better beaches somewhere - maybe in the Vero Sebastian area.  I didn't get a look at any of them.

Fort Pierce South Jetty Wednesday Afternoon.

Just south of the Fort Pierce jetty there was a lot of erosion.  As you probably know, that is renourishment sand that was spread there this summer.  And despite the erosion, you can see the sea weed or whatever it is, which shows that the sand was most recently building rather than eroding.

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Found by on a Treasure Coast Shipwreck Beach.

 One blog reader found this piece on one of the common 1715 Fleet beaches, and thinks it might be a part of a pewter platter or plate.

Here is what he said.

In my investigation of the piece I compared it to plates at the Survivors museum south of Sebastian and it seems to be very similar to some of the plates and platters they display. Attached are pictures.

Find Compared To Peweter Pate Displayed at McLarty Museum.

There are a few ways to test suspected pewter.  I'm not really experienced with any of them.  When it comes to telling the difference between silver and pewter, it seems easy enough.  I can identify silver by sight with a high degree of accuracy and confidence.  There are other metals that can look a lot like pewter.

Older pewter was made with more lead than most modern pewter.  If you can tell how much lead is in it, that can give you a clue to its age.

Here is an brief article on the subject.  I'll have to try some methods for myself to see how well they work.

Here is the link.


https://ourpastimes.com/test-pewter-8380973.html

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I got out of the car in the parking lot at WalMart and spotted a gold ear ring that had been run over.  It was small.  I doubt that most people would notice it, but my eye is trained for that sort of thing.  Over the years I've found a good number of gold items in parking lots, on roads and other paved areas.  They include gold chains, rings, ear rings and watches.

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We'll have a three to six foot surf for a few days on the Treasure Coast.  I"m not expecting any significant changes now. 

We've had a lot of surf this year, and even some north swells, but little erosion.  It looks to me like there is a lot of sand in front of the beach and that is protecting the beach from cutting.

It looks like its going to take a lot to change that.

October and November can be pretty good months as the cold fronts start coming through.   We've had some good storms in those periods in the past.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net