2/5/20 Report - Discoveries Revealed by Lower Water Levels and Erosion. More of the Same Small Finds.

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

Sunken Wagon Revealed When Water Lowered.

Source: FoxNews.com (See link below)

A mysterious 19th-century “ghost wagon” has appeared in an Oregon lake.

Salem, Ore.-based photographer and Marine Corps veteran Jeffrey Green posted an image of the wagon to Instagram on Jan. 23. In the post, Green explained that, for a couple of weeks in December 2019, the lake had to have its water drastically drawn down for dam maintenance.

“I headed up and searched 3 times while the water dropped day-by-day until I found this ‘historic utility wagon’, which had been left behind at the normally underwater site of the original town (site submerged in 1952),” Green wrote in the post. “Needless to say, it was an amazing experience to see it...

Here is the link for more.

https://www.foxnews.com/science/ghost-wagon-appears-in-oregon-lake

Thanks to Dustin L. for the link.

That is a really cool find.

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I received the following email and photo from JP.

Just wanted to send you a pic of a couple of things I found a few months ago... I saw the post you had about a find Jonah and another hunter had made awhile back. I found the same EXACT pieces! I found 2 of them and my hunting buddy got one as well. From what I was told these were some sort of button adornments. Neat finds! Glad to see others found some as well. Cheers!

Items Found by JP.

Photo by JP.

At least five or six people have reported finding these now.

Thanks JP.

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PORT ANGELES — Officials Thursday continued investigating the origin of bones found on a Waterfront Trail beach while repairs began on unstable embankments that recently yielded the ancient remains.

A complete human skull including the mandible, and a possible scapula, were found Jan. 14 by a man and his son on the Port Angeles Harbor waterfront abutting the trail, which is part of Olympic Discovery Trail.

“There’s a high probability [the remains] are Native American,” Lower Elwha Tribal Archaeologist Bill White said Thursday.

A possible portion of a human hip bone was found by a person walking the beach Jan. 18, and state and tribal officials found more bones Wednesday while inspecting the area, tribal and Clallam County officials said Wednesday and Thursday.

The remains, all found in the same general area, are being examined by state archaeologists... 

Kathy Taylor of the King County Medical Examiner’s Office, the state’s only forensic anthropologist, determined from photographs that the remains found Jan. 14 are human, estimating they are 500 to 1,000 years old, county Prosecuting Attorney Mark Nichols said Wednesday.

White said the harbor waterfront was occupied centuries ago by a Klallam fishing village whose inhabitants harvested halibut.

The bank along the Waterfront Trail where the remains were found “is collapsing,” White said.

“Storm surges hammered out that bank.” ...

Here is the link for the rest of that article.

https://www.heraldnet.com/northwest/bones-found-near-port-angeles-likely-500-1000-years-old/

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The tides are surf are still small on the Treasure Coast.

Source: MagicSeaWeed.com

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

10/6/18 Report - Young Girl Pulls 1000-year-old Sword From Lake. Beach As It Changed. Educational Talks.

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Thousand-Year-Old Sword Found by Eight-Year-Old

Source: MSN.com link below.

An 8-year-old girl was skipping rocks in a lake nearby her family's summer house in Sweden when she saw something strange in the water, The Local Sweden reported.

Saga Vanecek thought it was a stick, so she reached for it.,..

According to the Jonkopings Lans Museum, the sword is believed to be about 1,000 to 1,500 years old, dating back to the pre-Viking era. The object is about 2.75 feet long and remained well-preserved because it was stored in a wood and leather casing, per the museum. At this time, it's unclear why the sword was in the water...

Here is the link for the rest of the story.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/an-8-year-old-swedish-girl-plucked-a-1000-year-old-sword-from-a-lake-like-it-was-no-big-deal/ar-BBNWxhF?ocid=spartandhp

And all of you guys were out there working your butts off.  I've told stories of blind luck before.  It happens.  No matter how hard you work or how skillful you are, there is still the element of luck.  That is what some people like.  They are just out there hoping for that one big find.  And you never know what might pop up.

Not everybody looks at it the same way.  Some people are out there doing everything they can to maximize the average value of finds per hour, and they can be successful.  Others are looking for that one big hit - something like playing the lotto.  You can increase your chances by being out there a lot, but you can't guarantee that one big strike.

I know one person who played the lotto all the time as a part of a group.  And they eventually hit the big prized, claiming over a million as their share.  And people have hit the big prized more than once.  But others have played their entire life and have never hit anything big.

If you've read this blog, I'm all about skill.  Skill, as I'd define it, consists of intentional acts that actually increase the probability of success over time.  Skill can be proven over time.  Luck is that element of chance that has little or nothing to do with skill.

Regardless of how you approach it, it is always nice to know that there are pleasant surprises out there, and it can happen to you.

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I received the following email and photos from Jerry P.

I thought you’d enjoy seeing these pics and video. I was working a beach between Riomar and South Beach in Vero yesterday.

It was about 2-hrs before high-tide when I saw this amazing erosion event happening.

The 2nd pic & Video show this beach as the erosion was just starting. The 1st pic shows the same beach about an hour later.

Most of the seaweed and sand had been completely swept away by this time. My GPS on the MinLab 3030 showed that earlier when I was watching the waves taking away so much sand and weed, I was actually stand where the white breaking surf shows on that 1st pic.

It was really something to see while I watched.

BTW, this section of beach front is rare in this area because it runs more eastward than all the shoreline north or south of it. I believe that’s why the east breaking waves were more destructive along this area.

Second Photo Referrred To In Jerry's Email 

First Photo Referred To In Jerry's Email.

Thanks Jerry.

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Here is the schedule for the upcoming Sedwick Treasure Auction in Orlando.

Thursday, November 1, 2018 - Lot Viewing: 11:00 AM - 6:30 PM EDT

Educational Talks

Emilio M. Ortiz, professional numismatist, researcher and author: “Colonial Cuartillos and Cuban Numismatics” (2:00 PM)

Dr. Kris E. Lane, Tulane Univ. professor of colonial Latin American history and researcher on the colonial history of the Andes, mining, piracy, and global trade: “Thinning the King of Spain’s Blood: Reflections on the Great Potosí Mint Fraud of the 1640s” (3:30 PM)

Barry Clifford, underwater explorer and discoverer of the pirate treasure ship Whydah (1717): “History and Salvage of the Pirate Ship Whydah” (5:00 PM)

Cocktail Reception and Argentinean Steakhouse Dinner (7:00 PM) - (shuttle available)


Friday, November 2, 2018 - Lot Viewing: 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM EDT

Floor Auction (start times):

Session I - 9:30 AM

Session II - 12:30 PM

Session III - 5:00 PM

Session IV - 8:00 PM



Saturday, November 3, 2018 - Lot Viewing: 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

Floor Auction (start times):

Session V - 9:00 AM

Session VI - 11:30 AM

Lot Pickup: Noon - 2:00 PM


Monday, November 5, 2018

Internet Only Session VII (start time): 11:00 AM EST (note the time change from daylight to standard)

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Happy hunting,

TreasureGuide@comcast.net

1/25/18 Report - Treasure Coin/Pendant (?) Find From The Treasure Coast. Dive Watch Find. Bigger Surf On The Way.

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

Found by DB
Photo submitted by Terry S.

From the photo, it looks to me like this might be a genuine cob with a loop attaches.  I can't see it as well as I'd like in order to be able to offer any opinion.

Here is how Terry S. described it.

Now this is interesting and part of what makes it so interesting is that it was found the same time we were finding the 8 reales. It’s about the size of a dime and this same treasure diver said it’s not a coin but a pendant and in his mind a better find than just a coin. This of course got DB all excited but he is trying to get several opinions from other experts. You see folks we often can never be 100 percent sure but really that is a lot of the fun. If any of you out there know anything or have an opinion we would value your input. 
Terry S.

Terry's request for information and opinions applies not only to this find but also to those that I showed yesterday.   Feel free to email me about any of those.

Tomorrow I will share some information that I already received from a leading researcher relative to DB's ornate key find that I showed yesterday.

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Working Dive Watch Found by Mike S. in Namibia.

As I've said several times in the past, I like to celebrate firsts.  Mike S. said this is the first working watch he found.  Here is the story of the find.

Spent last weekend in the water with my Excal 11 seeing if I could get into any gold.

Wasn`t to be ….started with a pretty much bummer occurrence.  After having kitted up and gotten into the water, gone to the bottom, got myself sorted and decided in which direction to move, I turned the threshold knob on to start the Excal and…….aaaargh….it broke away!

In cool water trying to turn only the remnant post is like …well…. I didn`t manage…but a thought occurred to me…take one of the other knobs of and use that instead. Unfortunately in trying to remove the second knob it also came away, as did the third and fourth! The inside of the knob has a blue insert that is divided into four sections. Looks like they might have a shelf life after which they tend to crumble. Ok so that was it, abandon dive and go home to figure on how to fix my baby.

So like we have Pratley Putty here which is a double component glue that you mix in equal quantities. Made up a batch of this and was able to then repair the breakages, left overnight to cure and gave them a shot the next day and yipppeee…we are back in the game.

So back to the water and after about thirty minutes came up with the first Sport Divers watch I have ever found in about five meters of water, and some 30 cm deep in the sand.  Looked ok and so took it into the local watchmaker who then opened it up and replaced the battery, (which had leaked,) but then professed the piece to be in 100% working condition. Speculation puts the watch to have been in the ocean for quite some goodly time. The casing and strap were coated in conglomerate yuck and I know that takes a while to build up. Unfortunately I don’t have the resources to figure out the build year of the timepiece. Up to now I have only ascertained from the net, that it is an older model that seems to be no longer in the makers range.

Anyway still no gold, but  still chuffed on the find.

Thanks for sharing Mike.  I've received emails from all over the world, but this is the first from Namibia, which coincidentally appeared on an TV episode about the lake possibly containing Nazi gold there.  That was just minutes after receiving this email.

Watches can be found in great numbers on the Florida coast, both in the water and in the dry sand.  It seems a little surprising that watches are lost so easily in dry sand.  One of the best places to find watches is in a dip in shallow water near the water line.  When a dip like that is filled with shells and coarse materials, items like coins and rings will often be buried deeply, but can find watches there.

Thanks for sharing Mike.

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John Brooks Yesterday
Photo submitted by Gaylen C.

Gaylen sent this photo from yesterday and the following report.

Attaching a photo of Douglas  beach I shot today. I worked the shell line for a good ways and came up with some scrap aluminum. Went over some small cuts with no finds. 

I was at Ft Pierce Jetty Park on Friday. The dunes had collapsed. What were 7-8 ft tall vertical dune faces were now 5 ft with no cleanly cut bases at all. 

Thanks for the report Gaylen.

The wind started picking early Thursday.  The predictions are still showing a five to seven foot surf for the Treasure Coast this weekend.

The tides won't be huge, but the wind will be out of the north as this starts, then turn to be more from the east.

I have a lot that I didn't get to today.  As I said, I'll have information to share relative to the ornate key found by DB.  I'll also be adding a new factor to my formula for detecting success.  

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net