7/11/19 Report - Tribute to Fred Dengler and Others I've Come To Know Through This Blog. Meg Tooth. Tropical Storm Forming.

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Frederick (Michael St. Jude) Dengler. (1950 - 2018)
Source: YouTube - link below.

Yesterday I wondered in my post where Fred Dengler was.  He was the fellow that always answered my fossil questions.  I didn't know anything about fossils when I began this blog, but Fred was always there.  Even though I never met him, I distinctly remember one email from years ago when he said, "I'm here for you."  That impressed me.  Not only did he answer my questions, but he let me know that I could count on him.

When I said I missed Fred in yesterday's post, one other blog-friend went looking for him and found that he had moved on from this earth.  Alberto sent me this obituary.

FREDERICK M. DENGLER 

1950 - 2018 

FREDERICK M.  DENGLER, 68 

BARTOW - Frederick M. Dengler, also known professionally as Frederick Michael St. Jude, age 68, passed away Friday, June 8, 2018 in Lakeland, FL, after a very adventurous life. 

Born on January 14, 1950 in Pottsville, PA, he was the son of the late Frederick Dengler and Martha (Bennett) Dengler (living). Mr. Dengler was an Artist and worked in the Entertainment Industry for many years, having appeared on stage, in tv and movies, fronting several bands and having released albums and other musical collaborations which can continue to be shared with the world. He was also an author, sculptor, and a prolific painter. Mr. Dengler was a collector of rare artifacts and a fossil expert, having two previously undiscovered fossils named after him.  

He is survived by a loving family that includes his wife of 48 years, Suzanne Dengler of Bartow, his daughter Shannon McPherson and her husband Jason of Bartow and his two grandchildren: Zack and Annabelle, as well as his sisters Debbie and Dawn, brother Dana, and many nieces and nephews.  

A celebration of Freddie's life will be held at a later date. Condolences to the family at 

www.whiddenmcleanfuneralhome.com ; donations may be made in his honor to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Published in Ledger from June 12 to June 13, 2018 

I knew about Fred's kindness and knowledge of fossils, but there was a lot about Fred that I didn't know.  He was also an singer, artist, mystic, science fiction enthusiast and actor.

You know how you find an object, maybe a coin, and it is a very nice coin - a real keeper - and you put it aside only later to do some research and find out that there is a lot about it that you didn't know, and you find out it is more unique, complex and wonderful than you ever expected?  Then you appreciate it even more.

It is like that with people too.  For most, you only know a little bit about them.  You don't know the whole range of who they are.  You might underestimate them and assume that there is little more than the little that you know.  That is a big mistake.

The funny thing is, I was wondering where Fred was, and thanks to Alberto's research, within hours I found a documentary on Fred entitled Frederick Michael St. Jude -  Here Am I.

Fred Dangler Acting with Sheena Easton On Miami Vice.
Source: YouTube - link below.

As I said, Fred was an actor.  Above is Fred with Sheena Easton on Miami Vice.

The YouTube documentary opens with Fred sifting for fossils and philosophizing.  It shows some of his collection and then gets more into his music and art.

I hope you will take a look.  Here is the link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV1yNZtb9N4&feature=youtu.be

Thanks Fred, and thanks to all of you that have helped me in one way or another over the years.

A lot of experts and very knowledgeable people read and contribute to this blog.  You might be surprised to learn who they are and what they do.

Today I just wanted to say thank you and pay my respects to someone that helped me many times without even knowing me, and by extension, say thank all of you who help me on a daily basis.

People are very much like buried objects on a beach.  You have to make the effort to discover them and get to know them.

The long and winding road that once stretched out into the unseen future, now looking back, doesn't look very long at all.  The people that you traveled with or met along the way, show the wear, as do you.  Many other fellow travelers are no longer on that path.  You appreciate it all the more.  Fellow travelers who stuck with you through tough or long parts of the journey, you love all the more.

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A day or two ago I posted a fossil tooth for ID.  I said I thought it was a Megalodon tooth.  I got confirmation of that from Al Coffey.  Here is what he said.

That is a Megalodon Shark tooth and by the color it came from one of the mines in the Lakeland area. Fossil collectors call that area Bone Valley. I have a t shirt design specifically for that area at meghunter.net. The shark teeth that come from the mines come in different colors like green, blue, and the yellow color shown and are favorites of shark tooth collectors. A quick google search of Bone Valley Megalodon will show plenty of examples. Back in the good old days people used to walk the mines and find these teeth and other fossils but as we all know times have changed. The mines now all have security and they have been done giving warnings for years now. Some still make it out of the mines though and you can see many examples on ebay where you can see the nicely colored and complete teeth are worth quite a bit.

Thanks Al.

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Source: nhc.noaa.gov

The system in the Atlantic is expected to hit Texas.

The one out in the Atlantic is too far away to tell, but as you can see the map is heating up.  We've had a lot of hot weather this year and the water is warm.

Happy hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net

7/10/19 Report - Local Artist Creates With Dug Items. Prussian Button. Megalodon Tooth(?). Lil Squirt Soda ACL.

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Terri Martin With Creations.

Source: Portfolio-VeroBeach.com

An artist featured in Portfolio-VeroBeach.com created art using metal dug by a local detectorists.  That detectorist is Dan B., and the artist is Terri Martin.

Here is the email I received from Dan.

I mentioned briefly in a past email about donating some metal detecting finds to a friend. I have been sorting through my bins and have avoided scrapping metal due to the flat tires that I was getting at the scrap yard. I sorted out my remaining metal that I had no use for and gave it to a local artist named Terri Martin. I was delighted to see that she created an attractive piece with mostly things that were buried just a few years ago. I had already seen the piece of art, but today I saw a write up on her in the Vero Beach Portfolio magazine and I felt like sharing it with you. I can look at the piece she is holding and remember where I found nearly all of those things and their individual patinas. I haven’t had the chance to tell her personally, but I was really impressed with her style and how well it turned out. I would like the local readers to know that she is always looking for metal trinkets. If they wish to contact the blog, maybe you could provide them with her phone number or email information.

The magazine article is online at www.portfolio-verobeach.com There is no way to link the exact page due to their website layout, just wanted to share.

Sure, I'll do that.  

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Here is the mystery button I posted yesterday. 

Mitch King says it is from the Prussian German Army, dating from 1870 to 1914.  

Thanks again Mitch.

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It may be necessary to add another large nation of Native Americans to the list of peoples wiped out by the rapacious Spanish conquistadors after they arrived in the Americas. The location of the lost city of Etzanoa, found recently in Kansas, mystified historians for 400 years.

When the conquistadors arrived in the New World they wiped out civilizations and/or cultures, including the Arawaks (Taino) in the Caribbean, Peru’s Incas, Central America’s Aztecs and Maya, and populations along what became the Mexico-U.S. border.

The city of Etzanoa was described in historical documents but its whereabouts were unknown until an archaeologist with Wichita State University in the state of Kansas started digging in recent years...

Here is the link for more about that.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/possibly-decimated-conquistadors-400-years-ago-has-lost-city-etzanoa-021342

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I posted a few unidentified fossil teeth the other day and haven't received any responses from readers yet.  I think the shark tooth is a megalodon.

Here is how AquaExplorers says you can tell the difference between Great White and Megalodon teeth.

And here is the link.

http://www.aauaexpl\orers.com/fossil_shark_teeth_diving.htm:.XSPFhndFxYc

Great White and Megalodon teeth are very similar.  The most evident distinguishing characteristic is the separation between the top of the tooth and the main body of the tooth.  Notice the black area that separates the top from the main body of the Megalodon tooth.  You don't see that on the Great White tooth.


I miss Fred Dengler.  He used to answer all my fossil questions.  Don't know what happened to Fred.  Hope he is well.

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Here is an ACL bottle I found.  It probably dates to the mid 50s.  Usually the paint is gone or badly faded.  This one isn't too bad.

Squirt is a carbonated grapefruit drink created by Herb Bishop in 1938. Bishop’s intention was to make a soft drink that required less fruit and sugar than other sodas, due to the Great Depression. He started with a soft drink by the name of Citrus Club that was bottled in Phoenix, Arizona (which was quite popular in that part of the country).

Bishop’s experimentation resulted in a soft drink made from grapefruit juice and sugar that he believed to be the freshest tasting soft drink available on the market. He thought it tasted like a slice of grapefruit exploding in the mouth, so he called it “Squirt”.

In 1941, Bishop and his partner, Ed Mehren, created a character called “Little Squirt” to use in the marketing of their soft drink. The little tike encouraged people to “Drink Squirt”. He caught on right away with the consumers and sales increased.

The soft drink did well through WWII, because of its reduced sugar content, and in the 1950s, Squirt became a popular drink mixer. By the mid-1970s, Squirt was sold in Central and South America...

I believe it is still sold today.

Lil Squirt.

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There were over 1200 page views on this blog yesterday.

After the United States, the country with the most readers is Russia.  Don't know why that is.

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There is some weather that could form into a cyclone, but the chances at this point are slim.

Expect more of the same beach conditions.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

7/8/19 Report - Another Old Button for ID. Prisoner of War Camps in Florida During WWII. Megalodon Tooth Find. Viking Boat Burials.

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Unidentified Button Find.

As you can see, this button has a crown on the front and the back is too corroded to show much of anything.

I haven't done the research on it yet, and would appreciate any help.

I had a cup with old button finds that had accumulated over the years.  Unfortunately I didn't label them, so I don't know when or where they were found.

The button I posted yesterday has the words "EXTRA FEIN" on the back.  In German that means extra fine. I thought it might have been produced in Germany for another country because I didn't think it was very likely that I would have found a German button, but I guess it is possible.  Susan E. thought it might be a WW II German button but hadn't found the exact one yet.

I started wondering where I might have found a German WW II button.  The first thing I thought of was the German spies that came ashore during WW II, but it seems extremely unlikely that would be the source.  It seems more likely to me that someone just lost a souvenir or something.

Then I remembered that I used to do a lot of metal detecting down south in an area where there was a WW II prisoner of war camp.  I found some lists of Florida WW II prisoner of war camps, and there were a few, but they didn't list any in the area that I was thinking of, so I started wondering if I remembered that correctly.  Finally I found that I was right about that.

Since the 1920's, the Detroit-based Miami Beach Heights Corporation (headed by industrialists Robert C. Graham, Walter O. Briggs, and C.T. Fisher) owned 245 acres of undeveloped, partially swampy land that stretched from the bay to the Atlantic. Mr. Graham assumed the duties as the developer for Bal Harbour. In the 1930's, city planners Harland Bartholomew & Associates were called in to design the Village. The company made several plans and they were submitted for review to Miami Beach Heights. In 1940, World War II began and the plans were put on hold. As a goodwill gesture to the government, Robert C. Graham rented the land to the United States Air Corps for $1 per year. The Air Corps used this land to train their soldiers and established a Prisoner of War camp. The ocean front area was used as a rifle range and the barracks were set up on the west side of Collins Avenue. The camp for prisoners was located where the Bal Harbour Shops are presently... 

(Source: https://activerain.com/blogsview/484718/the-history-of-bal-harbour--florida----paradise-found----miami--fl-33154)

I used to spend a lot of time hunting in that area.  If the button I posted yesterday is a German WWII button, there is a very good chance that is where I found it.

While doing the research I learned a lot.  Did you know, there were over 425,000 prisoners of war in the United States during WW II?

I found a few Florida POW camps listed on Wikipedia.  The Bal Harbour camp was not in that list or other lists that I saw.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_prisoner-of-war_camps_in_the_United_States

Once again I'll remind you to keep good records of your finds.

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A middle school girl stumbled upon a buried treasure while spending her spring break on a beach in North Carolina.

Avery Fauth and her family love to scour the sand for shark teeth whenever they’re on a beach. But Fauth attributes her recent prehistoric find — a megalodon shark tooth — on North Topsail Beach to luck...

Here is the link.

https://nypost.com/2019/04/19/girl-finds-megalodon-shark-tooth-buried-in-sand-at-beach/?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_4028701

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Source: click2houston.com.

See link below.

Two Viking burial boats are being uncovered in Sweden.


In this sort of burial, the person was placed along with his or her riches in a boat that was then put into the ground.

The archaeologists also found a sword, an ornate comb, a spear and part of a shield in the intact boat.

The identity of the man remains unknown.

The other of the two boats did not hold up as well.  It was probably damaged during work on the land in the 16th century....

It's been 50 years since the last burial ship was found in Sweden...


Here is the link.


https://www.click2houston.com/lifestyle/2-rare-viking-burial-boats-uncovered-in-sweden


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Expect continued small surf on the Treasure Coast for at least another week or so.

Let me know if you find any information on the buttons I posed yesterday and today.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net