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| Encrusted Object Recently Found by DJ. |
Encrusted Objects come in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes they contain something interesting, and sometimes not. Sometimes they only contain a hollow space in the shape of the iron object that was encrusted before completely dissolving.
Above is an encrusted object recently found by DJ, and below is his question.
Went to one of the treasure beaches today to do some testing. Found this very iffy signal that I would not normally dig. Numbers ranged from iron, mid tones and an occasional high tone. Any tips on how to reveal what’s inside?
Before I received his email DJ found an old post on the subject on the original treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com site. Here is the link.Conglomerates are not always hundreds of years old. In fact they can be quite modern.
DJ opened his EO and found the item shown below.
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| Same EO Opened To Show Piece of Rebar. |
It seems to me that the EOs that contain nothing but a hollow space where an iron item was once encased, look very much like concrete. They aren't as loose as the one shown above.
Another way to learn what is in a conglomerate is to have it x-rayed. Here is a link to a post that told about one reader that had his EO x-rayed.
---Hello Dr. Treasureguide,
Your mystery signet-seal ring gave me a pleasurable evening learning about crests.
Sorry, I did not find your crest and forgot what the shape is called but learned that most likely it could be American due to the shape of the shield flaring out at the top does not show up in the German - European crests and they also do not seem to have the stars or the stripes. The most stars I found were in American Sorority crests. University & School seals are round and may contain a crest.
I think the only crest with any sort of arch is in the attached photo. The Eagle and Lion are very common in both European and American crests. The Wikipedia website has an extensive listing of official Gov. crests for the16 German states and their counties.
Each town has a crest as well as family's but I did not go there because of the stars, stripes, & the crest shape.
Spanish crests contain vertical stripes red and yellow in color.
What I did not get into was Spanish family crests. This site lists a lot of names but one at a time.
Would be worth a look if you thought it could be Spanish. If you got it in your south Fl. days then could it be modern Spanish?
https://surnamecrest.com/spanish-family-names/
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wappen_der_deutschen_Stadt-_und_Landkreise
https://www.shutterstock.com/de/search/lion+eagle+crest?page=26
I saw lots of cool crests, unfortunately none matched yours.
Many thanks for your reports.
Ron J.
Thanks for your research Ron, and thanks for the useful links.
Just the other day I added an archive to the original TreasureBeachesReport.blogspot.com web site so you can easily go back through older posts. There are many of them and people often go back looking at some of the older posts. Like I said yesterday, unfortunately some of the oldest ones got deleted. I think they went back to 2008 or close to it. Still there are a lot of posts there and you can use the search box to find topics or you can now use the dated archive list to search by date. Hundreds of people still refer to those older posts daily.
The surf links are now below the dated archive list.
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If you ever wondered how I decide what to post on any given day, there is no way to tell. It mostly comes down to what I am thinking about and interested in on that day. It is just whatever comes out when I write. That is all I have time for. I don't have time to try to make something fit in that just doesn't. Sometimes something will be on my mind and I really want to post it, but it just does not come together, so I give up on it. I might put something like that off for some other time, and maybe I'll get back to it and maybe I won't. Sometimes things just fall into place and sometimes they don't.
A disclaimer was recently put on some of the Muppets programs. You might wonder how the Muppets could possibly be offensive, but some people have such a warped imagination that they can find anything offensive. I thought it was funny though, that a Muppets program with Johnny Cash singing in front of a Confederate flag was considered offensive, when the same day I saw a PBS program investigating the genealogy of Roseanne Cash (Johnny's daughter), and they discovered that Roseanne and her father had African American genes. So a black man singing in front of a Confederate flag was found racist against blacks.
Mr. Potato Head must have thought that up.
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The vernal equinox will be March 20.
The tides are getting bigger. In recent weeks the tides have been small, with little or no negative tides. Thankfully that is changing. The negative low tides allow you to get out and explore the uncovered low tide areas a little more easily.
The surf predictions aren't exciting.
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Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net