2/17/19 Report - SS Pulaski Coins Being Sold. Another Kind of Collectible You Might Find: Insulators.

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

Finds From SS Pulaski

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu0ixvAA8BQ

I've posted a bit in the past about the shipwreck of the SS Pulaski, but now the coins are being sold.

The first 502 gold and silver coins plucked from a shipwreck off North Carolina have been sold to a global coin dealer at a price that “wildly exceeded” the recovery project’s expectations...

The 502 coins included some of the oldest U.S. gold coins ever recovered off a shipwreck, dating to around 1800, said Keith Webb of Blue Water Ventures International.   Blue Water Ventures is working with Endurance Exploration Group to recover treasure off the Steamship Pulaski...

Read more here: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article226195150.html#storylin

All 502 coins predated the sinking of the Pulaski in 1838, with the oldest being a 1750s British Gold Guinea, said Micah Eldred of Endurance Exploration Group.

Webb believes more than 100,000 gold and silver coins wait to be found, along with jewelry...

Divers are finding the coins in areas where the passengers’ steamer trunks tumbled as part of a “wreck trail.” The trunks themselves have wasted away, Webb says, but the metal bands, keys and locks that held them together now sit in the sand...

Read more here: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article226195150.html#storylink=cpy

Here is the link for the rest of the article.


https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article226195150.html

See also:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/portion-pulaski-shipwreck-coin-collection-135108095.html

https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/6524/SS-Pulaski/

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You never know what you might find.  That is something I like about treasure hunting.  You can find a lot of interesting things besides coins.  There are bottles, fossils, arrow heads, shells, sea glass and other types of  collectibles that you can find.

If you've done much hunting, there is a good chance you've found some insulators.  Here are a few that I've found.

Found Insulators.

Sometimes they still have wire attached or are on bolt.  You can detect those, but very often they will be surface finds.

One thing I like about insulators, besides the fact that they come in all sizes and shapes and can be very colorful, is that they are usually well marked, both with the name of the manufacturer and the patent date.

Probably my best insulator is a cobalt blue example.  It isn't shown in this photo.

Brookfield Insulator.

This nice little green insulator is a Brookfield.  It also has the patent date on the bottom.

There are quite a variety of manufacturers.

Like most collectibles, most are fairly common and not very valuable, but there are some that bring very good prices.  As with all collectibles, condition and rarity are big factors.

I think insulators are attractive and make a nice collection.  They can be easily researched and nicely displayed.

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No big change in beach conditions.  The surf is still small.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

3/21/18 Report - Railroad Metal Detector Finds. Stash of Gold and Silver Coins. Ringless Engagement Rings. Psychics Find Stuff.

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

Finds and photo by Dan B.

Here is the message Dan B. sent with this picture of his finds.

Another visit to a hunted out area. One of my favorite RR spots near the river. The dune has a pretty steep slope from the RR tracks out and down towards the west. It must get wind blown and with some rain it seems to reveal some new goodies every year or so depending on weather. Always a nice surprise to come back and find just a bit more. I found many RR era targets. These were the best for the day.
You can go back to the same location time after time and continue to find things, especially when the surface is eroded a bit.

Cool finds.  Thanks Dan.

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Now people are having diamonds embedded in their finger and not bothering with a metal band.

Here is that link.

http://www.wnd.com/2018/03/forget-engagement-rings-now-diamonds-embedded-in-fingers/

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A stash of gold coins found last week is the latest piece of evidence that a shipwreck 40-plus miles off the North Carolina coast is that of the steamship Pulaski, which took half its wealthy passengers to the bottom of the Atlantic in 1838.

Divers found 14 gold coins and 24 silver coins in a spot “no bigger than a cigar box.” All predate the ship’s sinking and include one British coin that experts say could be worth $100,000. Other gold coins in the collection are valued in the $10,000 to $12,000 range, officials said...

This article is from January, but I don't remember posting it before.

Here is the link.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article196911119.html

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A good number of treasure hunters follow their intuition and a good number believe in some type of psychic ability or leaning. I once did a poll on that.

Here is an article about our intelligence agencies used psychics.

...Angela Ford was with Project Star Gate for nine years. She calls herself a medium; the Defense Department preferred "remote viewer." "I was good at finding people," she said. "I was good at locating things."

Moriarty asked, "In a sense, were you hired as a psychic spy?"

"I guess, yes!" she laughed.

Her assignment?  To look for missing hostages and fugitives without ever leaving a building at Fort Meade in Maryland...

Here is that link for more about that.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/esp-inside-the-governments-secret-program-of-psychic-spies/

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A cool front came through and we have a west wind and small surf - only one foot or less.   The surf will remain small for at least a few days.  The tides are decent.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net