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| King Tut's Breatplate. Source: TheJewelerBlog link below. |
Among the items decorated with gold, silver and precious gemstones was a breastplate depicting the god Ra as a winged scarab carrying the sun and moon into the sky. The scarab was carved from a pale greenish-yellow stone that Carter originally identified as chalcedony, a translucent variety of quartz.
A decade later, British geographer Patrick Clayton found samples of a similar glass-like material while exploring the Libyan Desert along the border of modern Egypt and Libya and classified it as Libyan Desert Glass (LDG).
In a recent article published at Forbes.com, geologist David Bressan explains that LDG forms when quartz-rich desert sand is exposed to a heat burst of 3,600°F and then rapidly cools. Modern researchers noted that LDG has a different crystal structure than common quartz and contains traces of rare minerals and unusual elements, suggesting they could have been part of a vaporized meteorite...
Here is the link.Also see
That story goes along with my 5/18/19 and 5/19/19 posts that mentioned Hiroshima sea glass and Trez's Trinitite collection.
Those were caused by atomic blasts while the glass that was carved into Tut's yellow scarab, it seems, were produced by a meteor strike.
If you want to see tektites, Libyan Desert Glass and the like, here is web site where you can do that.
https://www.meteorites-for-sale.com/tektites-for-sale.html
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| Found Ink Bottle With Cap On and Dried Ink Inside. |
I seldom find a bottle with a cap, but it does happen, but not only does this bottle have its cap, it also has some of the original contents.
I'm not absolutely sure I know the company, but I think I do. The cap shows a swan, and the bottom reads 78 - GERMANY.
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| Top and Bottom of the Same Bottle. |
I did not find information on Swan Ink, but I did find an ad for Swan fountain pens. Since it was common for the companies that made or sold fountain pens to also sell ink, I think that the company that made Swan pens also made Swan ink.
Here is the ad.
My conclusion is that the Mabie, Todd, and Bard company sold the Swan ink. The one problem I have with this conclusion is that the bottle is labeled GERMANY, and so far I have seen no reference to the company being in Germany.
For more on Swan and other fountain pens see http://dirck.delint.ca/beta/?page_id=1343.
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Fountain pens were popular in the 1920s and 1930s. Did you know that fountain pens were preferred for legal documents because experts could tell what kind of nib was used. That information could be helpful if there was some question about a possible counterfeit signature.
Can you also believe that when I went to school the desks had a hole for a 2 oz. ink bottle, and the children used a sharp metal pointed fountain pen for classes in penmanship?
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NOAA is predicting 9 - 15 named storms and 4 - 8 hurricanes this hurricane season, which is about average.
Here is the link.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-season-2019-hurricane-center-reveals-atlantic-forecast-outlook-today-2019-05-23/
Here is the link.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-season-2019-hurricane-center-reveals-atlantic-forecast-outlook-today-2019-05-23/
Those hurricanes may or may not make landfall.
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The tides are small now, and the surf is running around two or three feet. There will be no big change in the surf for at least a few days.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
