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| Silver Ingot With Lead Core. Source: msn.com link below. |
There are a lot of fakes these days. Everything, including the news, is often faked. So it is no surprised that treasure is faked too.
The above fake silver ingot has a lead core. Here is more about that from an article on the msn.com web site.
Captain Kidd's treasure.
US explorer Barry Clifford claimed to have found a 110-pound silver bar belonging to 17th-century Scottish pirate Captain William Kidd off the coast of Madagascar back in 2015. The treasure was said to have been retrieved from what was thought to be the wreck of the Adventure Galley and was brought ashore on the island of Sainte Marie. Captain Kidd was first employed by the British authorities to tackle piracy, but later became a ruthless marauder himself.
The ingot was presented to Madagascar's president at a special ceremony on Sainte Marie. But just months later, UN cultural body UNESCO poured cold water on the claims, declaring that the "silver" bar was in fact a lead ballast and that the supposed wreck was simply rubble at the bottom of the sea. Clifford's team stood by its claims that the bar was part of a hoard of treasure looted by Captain Kidd, who was tried and executed for piracy in 1701.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/hoax-treasure-finds-that-fooled-the-world/ss-BBYFNca#image=16
The Washington Post, which has a credibility issue of its own, wrote a much more detailed account of Barry Clifford story. It is a real soap opera that I think you'll find interesting even if it is difficult to know who and what to believe.
Here are some excerpts from that lengthy article.
... Clifford was literally hit over the head with his latest discovery, he claims. Days later, he announced to the world, that a silver ingot, weighing more than 110 pounds, was evidence that he had found Kidd’s ship and a treasure — though plenty of Kidd experts disagree that any such treasure exists.
The president of Madagascar and other dignitaries gathered on the sandy beach to announce the find — along with the news that Clifford and the History Channel (which plans to air a documentary on the search for the Adventure Galley) would be investing in a museum and laboratory to further investigate the wreckage.
But months later, something else struck Clifford. This time, it was a shoe dropped by UNESCO.
“There is no silver treasure,” Michel L’Hour, chief of the UNESCO mission, said in a statement this week. Clifford’s prized silver ingot was 95 percent lead, UNESCO said...
Clifford isn’t just angry at UNESCO. He also turned his attention to John de Bry, who worked with Clifford on the search for the Adventure Galley for the past 15 years — including the excavation in Madagascar this spring. Following the Captain Kidd announcement, de Bry assisted UNESCO with its report on Clifford’s findings...
In interviews, he angrily attempted to discredit de Bry’s education and experience, even referring to him as “a fraud.” When asked to provide proof of his claims, Clifford had none.
De Bry, who was born and educated in France, does not claim to have degrees in archaeology, but his resume lists a bachelor’s degree and an advanced degree in European Post-Medieval History. In its report this week, UNESCO refers to de Bry as a “historian with an archaeological background.”
Nevertheless, for the past 15 years, Clifford has held him up as an archaeologist...
UNESCO first rejected Clifford’s claim that he had found Chrisopher Columbus' long lost ship, the Santa Maria, off the coast of Haiti last year...
Here is the link.
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| The Flying Dutchman Ship From the Pirates of the Caribbean Movie. |
The Flying Dutchman prop ship used in the movie The Pirates of the Caribbean movie was on display at Disney's Castaway Cay until around 2010. After then it was moved to be dismantled.
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| Another Flying Dutchman Movie Prop. |
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The current Atlantic weather scene reminds me very much of Marco and Laura. The first (yellow) looks headed towards the Yucatan, very much like Marco, and the second (orange) is a few days behind and maybe just a touch to the north or the first system.
It is too soon, in my opinion, to pay much attention to these two. Be alert and prepared though.
And keep watching.
Happy hunting,
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