6/13/18 - How Shipwrecks From Penobscot Expedition of 1779 Found. Vintage Diet Soda Bottles and Carrier. 1917 Penny.

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After spending considerable time scanning coins for errors, my eyes grew tired and I wanted something easier on the eyes, so I decided to go out and photograph some bottles.  Here are three types of vintage diet cola bottles - some filled- in a vintage cardboard carrier.

It isn't often that you find a surviving cardboard carrier or filled vintage bottles, but I had found these in an abandoned building years ago and put them aside.

Coca Cola produced TAB in 1963 to compete with Diet Pepsi.

Not often you find a full vintage bottle.  As you can see on the TAB bottle, it was a product of Coca Cola.

The Coca-Cola Company introduced Diet Coke in 1982 and this product has since been the principal competing product to Diet Pepsi.

Too bad the caps rusted.  Florida heat and humidity is hard on things.

A 1970s TV commercial spokesperson for TAB was a lady that later lived on Indian River Drive for a while.  If you are old enough you might remember those commericals.

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On July 24, 1779 the American naval and land forces--known collectively as the Penobscot Expedition--entered Penobscot Bay and laid siege to the British fort. However, just as victory appeared to be within their grasp, the Americans were forced into a disorganized retreat up the Penobscot River by a British relief squadron that arrived at the entrance to the bay approximately one month later. The British vessels rapidly overtook the fleeing American forces, causing the latter to abandon and scuttle most of their ships to prevent their capture.

During the mid-1990s, Brent Phinney, the owner of a sawmill and steel fabrication shop in Brewer, Maine, discovered the remains of a wooden shipwreck in shallow water immediately off the Brewer (eastern) side of the Penobscot River. Shortly thereafter, he discovered a scatter of colonial-era cannon and other artifacts in the river just offshore of downtown Bangor. In June of 1998 Phinney contacted Dr. Warren Riess, Research Associate Professor of History and Marine Sciences, University of Maine (Darling Marine Center), to assist in recovering artifacts from these and other archaeological sites. Riess in turn contacted the Naval Historical Center's Underwater Archaeology Branch. Naval Historical Center representatives then met with state officials in Augusta to discuss Phinney's discoveries. Among other things, the meeting addressed the shipwreck site's preservation and protection, as well as the removal of artifacts. The mutual interests of the Navy and the State of Maine and their overlapping responsibilities for the Navy's ship and aircraft wrecks in Maine waters was also discussed...

Here is the link for more about that.

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/underwater-archaeology/sites-and-projects/ship-wrecksites/penobscot-expedition-archaeological-project.html

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GoldNugget send a nice email that included the following.

Seems Impossible


During the 3-1/2 years of World War II that started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in December of 1941 and ended with the surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945, "We the People of the U.S.A." produced the following:
            22 aircraft carriers
              8 battleships
            48 cruisers
          349 destroyers
          420 destroyer escorts
          203 submarines
            34 million tons of merchant ships
   100,000 fighter aircraft
     98,000 bombers
     24,000 transport aircraft
     58,000 training aircraft
     93,000 tanks
   257,000 artillery pieces
   105,000 mortars
3,000,000 machine guns and
2,500,000 military trucks

Thanks Gold Nugget.

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I'll be getting back to looking at some cobs someday soon, but first here is another cache coin.

George V Large Cnet Coin.

Reverse of Same Coin.

A lot of cache coins are in good shape.  This one probably grades Very Good to Fine.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net