7/7/20 Report - Putting It Together: Waves, Liquefaction and Lenses. Kings Landing.

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Clark Little Photo of Wave.
Source: ClarkLittlePhotography.com.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but they say a lot of things - don't they.  In this case, it might not be too far off.

They also say appearances are deceiving.  It looks to me like there might be a bit of a fisheye effect in this photo, but it is still amazing and informative.  Even if there is a fisheye effect, and I'm not sure there is, it still seems to show the sand being picked up with the water.  The surface of the sand right in front of the wave seems to curve up into it.

I've posted other pictures showing something similar, but there is also a lot of geology science that talks about things like liquefaction of sand and soil and how that happens, so we have both the pictures and scientific principles, which seem to support each other.

Source: Pinterest.

Liquefaction can be created by vibrations, which it seems you'd have on a beach with all of the breaking waves, but if that were not enough, I showed an illustration about a week ago that illustrates how passing waves cause liquefaction and water lenses.  I also have referred to how dock piers are set by a pressure hose pushing sand and earth apart so the pier can be inserted.  Putting that altogether, it looks like liquefaction could be one big ingredient that hasn't been talked about much in the metal detecting community to explain how sand and objects move on a beach.  In the past, it seemed that people just talked like sand and objects were simply pushed around somehow.  If you put this all together, I think you'll have a lot more understanding of how sand and other objects can move on the beach.  You'll also want to add what I've called trigger points.

A lot of times things are simply uncovered or washed down from the dunes, but I think the best metal detecting days are when the waves crash from the low tide zone and work their way all the way up until they crash against the dunes.  We usually can't see through the turbulent water to see how everything is moving, but the above photo might give you a pretty good idea.

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Find With Good Message.

I mentioned finding a cheap necklace not long ago.  It bears a good message.  It seems like every time out I've been finding some type of little turtle thingy.


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Exclusive Kings Landing Development Coming to Fort Pierce.

King's Landing, a new exclusive community is planned for marina area of Fort Pierce. 

Homeownership ranges from the mid-$400,000s to $1 million+. 

Charleston homes are two-story, three-bedroom and 3 1/2 bath residences.

Homeownership begins in the high $500,000s.

I've read that they are all reserved in advance.

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If I decided that the predominant culture in which I now live has evil roots and is pervasively evil and I should no longer support it and participate in it or what came from it, that would mean I'd no longer use the internet or computers, or the English language for that matter.  I'd have to burn my degrees and erase them from my vita.   And I'd have throw away antibiotics and other pharmaceutical products, to to China or someplace for medical care, give up hot dogs, Coca Cola, eye glasses, laser surgery, TV, airplane travel, air conditioning, Ford, Chevy and Tesla automobiles, the convenience of the water closet, my Wrangler jeans, and UF Gator shorts.  I'd even have to stop rooting for my football team, watching the NFL and basketball.  And that is just a beginning.

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Not much on the National Hurricane Center map today.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

6/29/20 Report - Mysterious Phoenix Button Found. Great Thrift Store Ephemera Hoard. T. C. Beach Hunting.

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Source: MyNorthwest.com link below.

The following is the beginning of the story of how detectorist Phil Massie found the mysterious Phoenix button

“And I’m swinging the metal detector on our way out, because we’re like, ‘There’s nothing here, let’s call it a day, just try another spot,’” Massie said, describing the denouement of what began as a typical outing with a group of his metal-detecting friends to a public beach along Puget Sound.

“[Then, on] my last like five feet before the dirt walking off of a beach area, I got a really good signal,” Massie said. “And I pulled it out. And I told the guys, ‘Hey, come here and take a look this, I found a button and I’ve never seen anything like this before.’”

What Massie had found buried about six inches down was made of brass, and was less than an inch in diameter.

Rubbing away the dirt clinging to the object revealed an intricate design of a bird, and what turned out to be a phrase written in French. Within a few days, Phil Massie figured out that other examples of this tiny object have been found around the West for more than a hundred years.

And he also figured out that their origins were a mystery for decades...

And here is the link for the rest of that interesting article.

https://mynorthwest.com/1976707/mysterious-phoenix-button-found-puget-sound


Thanks to Timothy M. for alerting me to that story.

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Jerry P. ended up with a very cool thrift store find you won't believe.


Your recent post with the postcards made me think about last month's treasure find. Well, truth be told I didn’t find it but a close friend did and he had the insight to remember that I have a deep passion for anything local treasure. He was thrift stores hunting and came across a box filled with file folders and two of them had a written mark that said “DIVING + COINS”. He payed the price and I now own them. Inside were three incredible postcards that immediately caught my attention. I spent hours going over all the contents and it was like a time capsule. Inside were papers that included, post cards, news paper articles, personal letters from great treasure hunters, old news letters from local beach hunting treasure clubs, old beach maps from local hunters and a stack blank COA's from Mel Fisher’s original Cobb Coin Company with the auto pin of Eugene, Duncan and Mell, breath taking if you love history!

You have always implied treasure can be found anywhere if you are looking and nice enough to take the time to share your passion, thanks for all you have done!

Thanks for sharing Jerry.  That is one super cool treasure that found you through another person.

Here are photos of those items that Jerry sent.

File Folder Marked "Diving and Coins" 

Found in Thrift Store Along With a Variety of Ephemera.

Treasure Clippings 

Found in Thrift Store Hoard of Ephemera

Cobb Coin Company COA

Found in Thrift Store Hoard of Ephemera.  

Part Of Thrift Store

E;phemera Hoard.

Great story Jerry.  You can find surprising things in Thrift Stores.  Your treasure related ephemera hoard will serve as an inspiration to others.

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I did a little detecting this morning.  There were a good number of coins on the beach.

Along much of the beach, a dip has formed between the bar and beach.  In many places it is less than six feet deep at low tide.  There is a lot of loose sand in the dip.

I picked up a cheap bracelet and a few dollars in coins.

It seems a lot of people have been going to the beach.  There were many out-of-state cars in the parking lot.  I guess Cuomo won't let his people come home without quarantine, so they are just enjoying the Florida sun.

There is one area in the Atlantic that could develop into a cyclone, but it is still far from us.

 I'll keep track of it.


The first two episodes of Dino Hunters was fun.  They didn't make it farcical like some of the treasure programs.  You know what I'm talking about.


It seems tons of people are leaving Twitter and flocking to Parler.


Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

6/24/20 Report - Important Roman Ingot Found by Detectorist. Sebastian Treasure Story of Last Century. Wabasso Bridge.

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Lead Ingot Found by Detectorist.

Source: See ShropshireStar link below.

One of the most significant Roman objects found in Wales in recent years has been discovered by a metal detectorist.

Rob Jones discovered a metal object in a field near Rossett and careful digging revealed the corner of a lead object with ‘writing’ on it...

The object found was a large lead ingot or ‘pig’ (about half a metre long, weighing 63 kilograms). The ‘writing’ reported by Mr Jones was a cast Latin inscription confirming that it was Roman and about 2,000 years old...

Lead ore or galena contains silver as well as lead, and both were valuable commodities for the Romans. 

Less than a hundred lead ingots of this type are known from the mines of Roman Britain...



Here is the link for the rest of that article.

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/oswestry/2020/06/20/metal-detectorist-in-historic-roman-discovery/

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Yesterday DJ asked where the Fort Pierce casino was.  JamminJack said,

The Casino was on the lot where you park to fish on the the north side of Ft. Pierce Inlet. We used to find old tokens, etc, after it was torn down. I want to say it was still around in the 1960s, but I am not sure.

He also said the hotel he identified as Sexton's in yesterdays post could have actually been the Sebastian Inn, and included the following information he found.



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The old swing bridge at Wabasso was removed, renovated and now lives at Disneyworld as part of the Main Street  Railroad.

Alberto S. alerted me to that, and sent the following picture of the bridge.

Old Wabasso Bridge at Disneyworld.

Submitted by Alberto S.

Here is a link that tells more about that.

https://www.florida-backroads-travel.com/old-wabasso-bridge.html

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There is now a tropical depression in the Atlantic - Dolly.  It is far north of us and will never affect us, but it is the time of year when you have to stay alert for tropical storm activity.  As you know, summer storms can produce some of the best metal detecting.

We are getting some decent negative tides and the surf is still small.


Happy hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net

6/22/20 Report - Metal Detecting Clues On Old Postcards. Good Article on Fenn Treasure. Couple Other Things.

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Newly Found Cream Bottle.

This is a one pint cream bottle.  It would have been nicer if it had the dairy name on it.

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Here is the beginning of a good long article on the Fenn treasure hunt.

Sacha Dent, 39, checked the weather before packing up her bag, preparing for a treasure hunt that could end in a prize of an estimated $2 million. Looking at the radar, checking wind direction, precipitation levels and humidity, Dent took it all into account for her 300 trips into New Mexico's wilderness. After following the temperatures in the mountains for weeks, making sure the ground had thawed out but that the snowmelt wasn't flooding the creeks, she went out to investigate her theory of needing a sunny day to cast her shadow on the hidden treasure.

For more than a decade, treasure estimated to be worth at least $2 million sat tucked away in a crevice of the Rocky Mountains, its location known only to one man until a new pair of eyes glanced quickly down.

Forrest Fenn, an art collector and millionaire, had been diagnosed with kidney cancer in the late 1980s, and doctors' prognosis gave him little chance of beating it. Fenn loaded some of his antiquities on hand into an ornate, antique bronze lockbox of Romanesque design, locking gold, jewels and other artifacts inside. He had originally planned to have his remains interred with the treasure, to be hidden until someone stumbled upon them both...,

And here is the link for the rest of the article.  It is a pretty long article - and interesting.

https://news.yahoo.com/treasure-hunter-used-weather-clues-115957869.html

As I said yesterday, some people are skeptical about the finding of the Fenn treasure.  Hoax or not, a lot of people had a good long treasure hunt out of it.

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Here are a couple mid-20th century postcards showing views of Daytona Beach.  Notice where the cars are parked, the big hotels and sites are, and how wide the beach is.  Those things can all be clues for metal detecting the beach.

The amphitheatre shown below is near the top of the above photo.  In the bottom photo there are it looks like way more cars are parking to the north.  You can also see some nice rips in the beach in the second photo.

Not long ago I received an email from somebody suggesting postcards as a research tool.  You can find pictures of old beaches or locations that were tourists spots in years gone by.  It isn't easy to find a Florida beach that is abandoned today, but there are a few, and there are also beaches that are definitely different today than they were in the past.  Some Florida beaches had casinos in the early 20th century.  Those beaches, when conditions are right, can still turn up some nice old coins and tokens.  When I was detecting Virginia Key it was very much run down. . In the days of segregation is was a colored beach, like John Brooks.  I found a lot of 1940s and 1950s silver coins there along a stretch that was overgrown and abandoned at the time.  Virginia Key has been renovated since then though.  By the way, Virginia Key produced some nice shipwreck items.

On Key Biscayne there was an area that was overgrown and almost nobody detected that part of the beach, yet when it eroded it produced tons of old coins and jewelry.  From old maps and other evidence, I believe that great detecting spot was once a prime area for visitors.

Beaches do change, you can sometimes find coins and things from earlier days where not many people would bother to detect.  Some old areas are not used as much any more, and some busy areas become less favored for one reason or another.  Postcards can show you what was going on at such locations at a given time in the past.  You can sometimes see where snack bars, water sport concessions or volleyball courts were in the past.  You will be able to see where the beach was in the old days.  Both nature and man can change beaches dramatically.

Here is an 1950s  linen postcard that provides some metal detecting clues.  It shows the bridge over the Peace River at Arcadia.  As you know, the Peace River produces a lot of fossils, and as I recently posted, some old Spanish coins as well.  Arcadia is an old town.

The focal point is the bridge, but that isn't the only clue.  A lot of things probably got dropped off the bridge over the years.  Not only can you fossil hunt below the bridge, but you might also magnet fish or look for old bottles and other things under the bridge.  But that there is another clue.

Notice where the person is.  I'd check out that spot too.  It is probably easily accessible and could be an interesting spot to metal detect.  If one person found it attractive, so probably did many others.

There are a lot of ways you might find old postcards useful.  I'll show some other examples in the coming days.

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Sherman W., who did a lot of bottle digging in California, since he came to Florida has been into postcards and recommended Cherryland auctions for that sort of thing, but he'd also like to know if anyone could help him install a part that he received for a Whites metal detector.

Here is what he said.

Well the reason I am sending this note is I have a Whites detector that had a bad connection, i got the part about 2 years ago. i need help putting the thing back togather. do you know anyone here in PSL that can help me? 

If you can help Sherman, please contact him at the following email address.

TheWalners@comcast.net


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There is now a disturbance off of Virginia that has a 40% chance of developing into a cyclone in the next 48 hours.  Tropical disturbances are starting to pop up more frequently these days.

On the Treasure Coast we have a good small summer surf.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

6/16/20 Report - Our Ships on the Bottom of the Ocean. Gold Cross Find. Metal Detector Signals.

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Gold Cross Laying on Sand

Find and photo by Alberto S.

The small gold cross (14KT written on the clasp) was laying on top of the (dry) sand and before picking it up I moved the coil of my CTX 3030 over it to listen to the FeCo tones and the values reported since this is my first gold cross I wanted to get an idea but, the tones and numbers kept jumping around not sure why, maybe the way it was laying on the sand, the shape of a cross and size or something else. The ctx 3030 is working fine as I double checked with a couple of coins I had found and later with an air test of the cross which gave me a solid sound and reading when moving in a horizontal position or flat over the coil, in a vertical position; silence. Beach conditions were not good at all but I needed the exercise so I am glad I went metal detecting today. Oh, and my metal detecting mistake #345 I started to walk away from the spot where the cross had been found before I went like wait, where is the chain? I retraced my steps and tried for a while but no luck. :(

Have a great evening,

Alberto S 

One good thing about all the rain we've been getting lately is the items that are uncovered by the rain.  Wind will uncover things too. 

Good idea to look for the chain.

A metal detector signal will be different for odd shaped objects and round objects.  On round objects the signal will be pretty much the same when you swing at one direction and then again at 90 degrees.  Very irregular shaped objects like the odd silver earring I showed the other day will give what I might describe as a jittery signal.  I meant to mention that at the time, but forgot.  You can usually tell the difference between a round object, a nail-shaped object and a fish hook, for example, from the audio signal alone.  Objects that aren't round, in addition to having a different audio signal when swept from different directions, will also tend to give inconsistent numbers as you hit them from different directions.

You can test that at home with various types and shapes of objects.  With practice you can learn to tell much about the shape of the object from the audio signal.

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I found an interesting paper on early Portuguese shipwrecks.  The title, Our Ships at the Bottom Ocean, immediately made me suspicious.  The title seems to suggest a group of people, including the author as chief among them, that owns the ships at the bottom of the ocean.  I thought I remembered some of the author's previous wacko statements, and the paper confirmed my suspicions.  The author seems to rank anyone and everyone that has touched a shipwreck or anything that has came off one other than he and his group, as a part of an international network of thieves.  Nonetheless, the paper does present some good information that you might enjoy reading.  It is mostly about early Portuguese shipwrecks.

Here is one paragraph to give you the idea.

There is much more like that.

Here is the link.

https://www.academia.edu/13927040/Our_Ships_at_the_Bottom_of_the_Ocean?email_work_card=title

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I felt like saying thank you to all the good police and found this Egard Watch commercial that does it for me.  Click here to view it.

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I had a lot of trouble with yesterday's post.  First I wrote a long original essay and lost it, then the post wasn't displaying correctly, so I finally took it down.

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Source: National Hurricane Center.

There is a weather system just north of Jacksonville that has a 10% of becoming a tropical storm in the next couple of days.

Our wind changed yesterday.  We only have about a two foot surf and small tides with a primary swell from the east but a secondary wind swell from the ENE.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

4/22/20 Report - Sedwick Treasure Auction No. 27 Lots. Researching A Wood Handled Fork Find. Openings.

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Sedwick Treasure Auction 27 Ad

Treasure, World, U.S. Coin and Paper Money Auction 

Live on the Internet: Wednesday-Friday, May 27-29, 2020

The Sedwick Treasure, World, U.S. Coin and Paper Money Auction #27 will go live on the Internet Wednesday-Friday, May 27-29, 2020

Below are some of the lots that will be auctioned as described by Sedwick.

Gold Cobs features a variety of choice Mint State coins from the 1715 Fleet including the very scarce Lima, Peru, 1703H 8 escudos graded NGC MS 62, a date that is missing in the State of Florida collection. We also have an unprecedented pair of Seville, Spain, cob 2 escudos from the Atocha and Santa Margarita shipwrecks graded PCGS AU50 and MS61 respectively.

Shipwreck Ingots boasts yet more treasure from the Atocha in the form of two long gold “finger” bars and three large silver ingots. Our usual wide selection of Shipwreck Coins features many dated silver cobs from the Concepción (lots 169-208) and Capitana (lots 209-243) as well as an assortment of choice pieces from the ever-popular Atocha (lots 77-158) and 1715 Fleet (lots 291-342).

Be sure to check out the Potomac Collection in Mexican Silver Cobs, which contains some key “Early Series” Charles-Joanna assayer-Rincón rarities like an ever-popular 3 reales (lot 439), a 2 reales plated in both Guttag’s and Nesmith’s works (lot 440), and a very choice ½ real (lot 443). A 2 maravedís from this collection (lot 460) is the first of its kind we have offered. Also don’t miss the very rare Royals (galanos): 8 reales 1727D (lot 478) and 2 reales 1715J (lot 491).

The Lima and Potosí Silver Cobs sections are packed with many 8 reales from a fresh collection, including several nice Potosí Royals (galanos), like a 1654E 8 reales discovery piece struck with previously unknown dies (lot 578).

In Other Silver Cobs we feature one of the largest selections of Colombian cobs we have ever had, a key being a very rare billon cob ¼ real of 1622 (lot 662), the first one we have offered. Here you will also find the first coins of the Nueva Granada Collection, an expertly crafted assemblage of the very best Colombian coinage from the Spanish colonial era into the Republic period. This collection continues into the World Coins section where we have such rarities as: the finest known Bogotá 1770VJ pillar 8 reales graded PCGS MS65 (lot 821); a Popayán 1814/3JF bust 8 reales of Ferdinand VII graded PCGS XF40 (lot 823); and the highly sought and finest known Medellín 1868 medio peso graded PCGS MS62 (lot 854); all of which are plated in Jorge Emilio Restrepo’s Coins of Colombia (2012). Also note the 1888 “Cocobola” 50 centavos (lot 874) and several other choice and rare Colombian “half dollars.”

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Fork Find.

I found three of these a number of years ago and did a lot of work to get them cleaned up.  This one is by far the nicest.  It cleaned up fairly well even though it took quite a while.  They were wrapped and stuck in a hollow space in a rock wall.

I recently decided to see what I could learn about the forks.

Here are some other older silverware that I found over the years.  The pewter spoon on the bottom is in bad condition but is probably one of the older ones.

Some Other Silverware Finds.

Of course the first thing I did, after getting the fork cleaned up, was look for a maker's mark or any other marks.  I looked it over carefully with magnification, but couldn't find any marks.

So I went to the books.  The one that seemed to have the closest thing was A Guide to Artifacts of Colonial America by Ivor Noel Hume.

In the book I found the following illustration.

Figure 63 in A Guide to Artifacts of Colonial America by I. Hume.

Notice the three tined fork at the bottom.  Below are the descriptions.

The fork at the bottom of the illustration (no. 9) is described as an American iron fork with bone-plated handle held together with pewter mounts, circa 1850-80?

The handle on my fork is wood, not bone, but how do the other parts match?

I got out a handy little magnet and tested the tines and tang.  They are ferrous.  The rivets are ferrous too.

Next I tested the arrow and metal around the bottom end of the fork.  They are not ferrous, but I do not know what they are.  Pewter is a possibility from the look.

According to Hume, the earliest recorded English silver fork is two-tined and has a mark that dates it to 1632/33.  He also says that silver forks did not become popular in England until the end of the 17th century, and at that time they had three tines.  By the mid eighteenth century English forks had four tines.

Spanish silver forks, in contrast to English forks, had four tines by the early eighteenth century.  Some of those have been salvaged from 1715 Fleet wrecks.

Four-tined French forks have been found in contexts of the 1730s and 1740s in Nova Scotia.

Hume notes that silver forks are seldom found in excavations in America, but  those in steel are common, and they range from two-tined from the last quarter of the seventeen century to the beginning of the nineteenth century, though three tined forks became common in the second half of the eighteenth century.

So it is quite a complex and mixed mess, but with the exception of the wood handle, my find seems to be similar to the one listed as number 9 in Hume's figure 63.  It has three tines, ferrous tines and tang and rivets, and possibly pewter parts.  So I'm unsure, but am thinking it could be mid 19th century.  Perhaps I'll learn more eventually.

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One thing I want to point out is the usefulness of a small refrigerator magnet that allowed me to easily test the parts to determine if they were ferrous or not.   A large magnet would not have allowed me to test small parts independently.


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I've been hearing from people who are eager to get outside and would like to know of any beaches or parks have opened or any parks.  I'd like to hear form you when you learn of openings.

I read online that Jonathan Dickenson State Park is due to open today, but also heard that Palm Beach was not ready to open.  They have more cases than the Treasure Coast.

Georgia and South Carolina are opening retail establishments.

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I'm concerned about the ability of a population stressed economically, healthwise and psychologically to be able to respond well to hurricane season with the store shelves depleted and supply system disrupted.  Imagine having to ramp up to hurricane preparedness if an early threat emerged.  Even though we can shut down the economy, the world will not stop and there could be more events that we need to be able to respond too.  While some express delight in the crashing oil industry, if we are too weakened we will be more vulnerable to natural disasters or other bio threats or any of variety of forms of terrorism.

[ Less than an hour after I posted this, it is announced that Iran is causing trouble.  Pompeo scheduled to make announcement soon.]

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Here is a touching video showing a WWII vet serenading his wife in a long-term care facility through a window.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peopleandplaces/wwii-veteran-serenades-his-wife-through-window/vi-BB12ZUKS?ocid=spartandhp

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Beach-side residents are allowed on the beaches now.  I was surprised to learn that some condos had the residents restricted for a while.

I am making some changes.  You might not see them for a while though.

The surf will be small for the next week or two and the tides moderate.

TreasureGuide@comcast.net

4/18/20 - Mystery Find. Diggin Dog. All-Time Engaging Posts From Blog History.

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Small Heart Pendant Find.

I got around to look at some old finds again.  Some I never figured out.  Here is one of those.  It is a small heart pendant photographed on top of a US quarter.

Both sides have a metal mesh that is puffed out some and the frame appears to be made of two halves that were once shut at the tip.  Below gives a side view (left) and shows a closeup of the tip.  It looks to me like the tip was at one time soldered shut.

You can see how the mesh sides puff out so there would be room for something to be enclosed inside.  The tip looks like it was connected.  There are no hinges, but I sprang it open to see if I could see if anything was in it.  I didn't see anything.

I'm wondering what you think.  Was it made to contain something?  If so, what might it be?

I would like to hear what you think.  Any and all ideas appreciated.

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People are not the only ones making finds.  Susan E. sent a photo of a wheatie recently unearthed in her yard by the dog.  He often unearths shards and things, but this time he got a coin.

Find Made by Diggin Dog.

Photo by Susan E.

I usually check anywhere animals have dug, including mounds created by gopher tortoise.

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South Carolina will announce the opening of public beaches and stores next week.  Social distancing, will still be enforced on the beaches.

Jacksonville's governor seemed to be happy with the results of his beach opening, even though there were those who protested.

Of course, as with anything these days, some people don't like it.

No one would dare repeat Roosevelt's quote, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself," these days.

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Do you know what topic addressed in this blog resulted in the most active and positive response?  I received literally hundreds of emails in response to a post about a State of Florida bill that was thought to threaten beach access.  I received tons of emails about that.  There was almost unanimous consent among the detecting community and people were eager to add their names to a petition to prevent beach access being restricted.

Do you remember when a federal judge ordered Odyssey Marine to turn over $500 million worth of Spanish coins salvaged from a wreck to the Spanish government?

If not see  https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-spain-shipwreck-idUSLNE81J01C20120220

Did you ever read about the battles between the Fishers and the government and between the State of Florida and the Federal government to determine who owns certain wrecks?

See https://people.com/archive/mel-fisher-finds-millions-under-the-sea-and-the-courts-now-say-its-all-his-vol-9-no-19/

Do you remember when St. Lucie decided to prohibit metal detecting in their parks?  That also resulted in a petition and numerous emails.

How about the topic of beach renourishment?  That has been a popular topic in this blog.

The rift between treasure hunters and archaeology has been a common topic.  I believe it has been an important topic that has seen some improvement in recent years.

Or who owns the salvage rights, and how are finds distributed with the State of Florida.?

Or maybe you were detecting or swimming in front of a big resort or beach club and were told you couldn't do that.  I've addressed that topic too.

People wonder when the storms come, why beach accesses are closed without any apparently justifiable reason.

Our tax dollars are continually dumped onto the beaches in the form of sand that won't last.  We've discussed that.

I could go on, but my point is simple and undeniable: you can't separate politics from metal detecting or treasure hunting.   The are intertwined.   Metal detecting and treasure hunting could be banned.  It has already been panned in some places, and there are those, such as some archaeologists, who would like to see it banned.  And it could be if you aren't interested, informed, active and involved.

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I understand DeSantis has give municipalities the right to open additional beaches.  I would expect additional beaches to open soon, but we'll see.

They really did build that wall.  It is a wall of gates, barricades, and yellow tape that walls off hundreds of miles of beaches.

The surf is only around 3 or 4 feet now.

Happy Trails to You.
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